The Blog Post of Numbers
11. Our niece and god-daughter Josceline turned eleven years old this past Friday, but we didn't have her birthday party until yesterday afternoon at Splash Down Water Park which is appended to Dakota Square Mall's Sleep Inn & Suites. There was birthday cake -- a pink zebra themed birthday cake, if you can believe that -- and soft drinks and pizza provided in Sleep Inn & Suites' birthday party package. Dakota Square's also one of a handful of shopping malls in the United States with a hotel attached to it, I understand.
36. The number of chapters in the Biblical (or Pentateuchal, depending on your chosen Judeo-Christian world view) book of Numbers -- book four in case you're paging through them. Although my own novel The Book of Numbers based on the events of this book (ISBN 9781449934309) picks up the story with the twelfth chapter, right after Miriam Moses' sister got afflicted with leprosy for speaking out against Moses' leadership of the Israelites in the wilderness.
(Aaron didn't get smacked down with the same thing, I think, because it would have disqualified him from the LORD's priesthood. Though I expect having had two of his sons burned alive -- the story's in Leviticus, check it out -- and being the co-ringleader of a revolt against Moses, and by essence the authority given unto him by the LORD, could be punishment enough. But my opinion there is like a nose, everyone has one.)
50. The number of miles that Dakota Square Mall is from Canada. (Which translates into 80 kilometers, see atop.)
75. Bugs Bunny is THIS old today! Hard to believe, isn't it -- he hides it very well.
76. "Seventy-Six Trombones" may be -- well, it is to me, and musicals aren't exactly my forte -- the best remembered song from The Music Man, and Saturday night the four of us (Martha, Sarah, Jeffrey, and I) got to see it as the final production of Minot State University's Summer Theater program. And I believe we have watched the movie version of it at home -- Martha swears she hasn't watched it with me though, at home ... but I'm sure we have. Or at least I'VE seen it.
500. The maximum dollar amount you can borrow for a payday loan here in North Dakota. Just thought I would share that with you.
1,200. The current number of friends I have on Facebook. And posting it here means I might not have that many any more, I don't know! Not that I'd lose sleep over missing (some of) them, or that I might remember who is who!
1,953. WHY does the date of the end year of the Korean War stick in my head like this? (July 27, 1953) I didn't fight in it -- I was born in 1971 so I couldn't have -- but this date's stuck in my head, I am not sure why. And strictly speaking the Korean War has never ended because the 7/27/1953 event wasn't a formally declared end of the war (that is, it wasn't a peace treaty), so it's entirely possible for North and South Korea to go at it without any goading. No need to start a war though.
305,093. This was the official count for how many people got out to our North Dakota State Fair this year. And according to a radio piece I just heard, it's three percent less than last year's attendance figures ... for all I know, that was in the Minot Daily News piece I scanned this morning before getting to the office. But that's just me -- both Martha and I were out there only one day ourselves; Sarah and Jeffrey had a ride pass Martha's parents had bought them for several days! Good for them.
Gee willikers and thanks for them, David
36. The number of chapters in the Biblical (or Pentateuchal, depending on your chosen Judeo-Christian world view) book of Numbers -- book four in case you're paging through them. Although my own novel The Book of Numbers based on the events of this book (ISBN 9781449934309) picks up the story with the twelfth chapter, right after Miriam Moses' sister got afflicted with leprosy for speaking out against Moses' leadership of the Israelites in the wilderness.
(Aaron didn't get smacked down with the same thing, I think, because it would have disqualified him from the LORD's priesthood. Though I expect having had two of his sons burned alive -- the story's in Leviticus, check it out -- and being the co-ringleader of a revolt against Moses, and by essence the authority given unto him by the LORD, could be punishment enough. But my opinion there is like a nose, everyone has one.)
50. The number of miles that Dakota Square Mall is from Canada. (Which translates into 80 kilometers, see atop.)
75. Bugs Bunny is THIS old today! Hard to believe, isn't it -- he hides it very well.
76. "Seventy-Six Trombones" may be -- well, it is to me, and musicals aren't exactly my forte -- the best remembered song from The Music Man, and Saturday night the four of us (Martha, Sarah, Jeffrey, and I) got to see it as the final production of Minot State University's Summer Theater program. And I believe we have watched the movie version of it at home -- Martha swears she hasn't watched it with me though, at home ... but I'm sure we have. Or at least I'VE seen it.
500. The maximum dollar amount you can borrow for a payday loan here in North Dakota. Just thought I would share that with you.
1,200. The current number of friends I have on Facebook. And posting it here means I might not have that many any more, I don't know! Not that I'd lose sleep over missing (some of) them, or that I might remember who is who!
1,953. WHY does the date of the end year of the Korean War stick in my head like this? (July 27, 1953) I didn't fight in it -- I was born in 1971 so I couldn't have -- but this date's stuck in my head, I am not sure why. And strictly speaking the Korean War has never ended because the 7/27/1953 event wasn't a formally declared end of the war (that is, it wasn't a peace treaty), so it's entirely possible for North and South Korea to go at it without any goading. No need to start a war though.
305,093. This was the official count for how many people got out to our North Dakota State Fair this year. And according to a radio piece I just heard, it's three percent less than last year's attendance figures ... for all I know, that was in the Minot Daily News piece I scanned this morning before getting to the office. But that's just me -- both Martha and I were out there only one day ourselves; Sarah and Jeffrey had a ride pass Martha's parents had bought them for several days! Good for them.
Gee willikers and thanks for them, David
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