I was grabbing some stuff off the table and almost bumped it, which normally wouldn’t be any big deal. I glanced across the table and saw the Egg; now the egg as been standing there for how many hours ever since Trevor stood it up there to test it since the Fall, Winter solstice, something equinox. Something I glanced about online. Don’t know much about it, something about a full moon and balance, symmetry, gravity. Something that allows an egg to stand on the tip of it, like a big air balloon. So I see this egg and it’s standing there, and it’s just one of those million times that happens to you moments and that’s the moment that I’m really going to get it and learn and see all those great moments in life and I’m going to make sure I don’t miss them.
Here I was, just about bumped the table and knocked the thing on its side, and I’m a capturer of moments, a story-time telling kind of person and what a lost type of opportunity that might have been. Because you know it’s pretty dang cool that for whatever scientific reasons, for all those people that are interested in science (in that form of science). I love computers and all kinds of stuff, but I don’t think about physics so much. But it’s cool that this occurrence actually happens this time of the year. It’s probably even cooler that my son was actually aware of it and into it because he’s sort of a technology guy like me. He likes more the science aspect, but we both share the love of technology and he was in to why that would do that. This egg project was inspired by either a teacher that he interacted with at his school or something he read through his iPad, or something a friend told him or online. He’s a smart kid and he’s always connected to stuff like that. It was cool he actually took the time to do it and we weren’t rushing through something else and it was cool that I actually remembered to remember to take a picture of it because it’s a cool thing that he did and it was a neat thing in our house.
You clean a couple newspapers away, and god knows why I have these around here as much as I do, how little I read them, or as my particular passion notes, how little I like within when I read them. When you clear all that stuff away and the cups and anything we have thrown about within the week, when everybody went to go do their homework and me with computer stuff or compact flash card sitting on the table or some cord for some piece of electronics plugged in. Just cool that the egg is just still sitting there and a couple of days have passed and our lives go up and down and up and down and you're racing a million miles a minute and you're doing a thousand things and you're having a hundred interactions and somehow whatever scientific principal allows that egg to find a way to just stand there as improbable as that is, almost all the rest of the year. The egg just by its basic scientific principals stands perfectly still for whatever this effect is, which will be interesting because I have know idea what happens. Does it just fall over one day? Will it stay there forever once it’s in equilibrium?
But to me this egg is a quick, great, pretty fun reminder to take a deep breath and look at the egg and then take a look at all the stuff around the egg and don’t forget “how simple life can be”