Fiber Optic Tree and A Card Trick

The other day, my wife's friend, forwarded something to her in an email. Usually, I look forward to forwards before I check my email like I look forward to butt hole lips in a bowl of bean soup. Forwards in an email, as most of you know, have this god-awful knack of containing either jokes you've read and/or heard before or other items of crapola that neither entertain or inform. How many goddamn prayers do I need to read, for Christ's sakes?



Well, in my case, since I'm damned for eternal hell fires, anyway, the answer to that is zero or-- Who gives a rat's ass, anyway? My grandpa was fond of saying that last question time to time.


But getting back to this forward she received...




Here it is. A card trick. OOoooh. Aaahh. And so forth. Maybe you have seen it before, in which I would dissolve into a squishy bag of tears with my deepest concerns scenting those same tears or maybe I wouldn't. Or maybe I would care a lot. Frrrrrttttt.




If you do as instructed, you may be surprised. I'm pitchin' a tent just thinking about it. Gosh.


It's a card trick. Concentrate on a certain card. Sure, you can do it. I have monumental faith in you. Eh, yeah. Keep the card in mind. A few instructional (or something) pics later, and WALLAH! (no, I'm not speaking Hindu) your card is gone. I tried it 3 times and every time--my card was picked.


Pretty cool.

Almost as cool as the fiber optic tree on my living room table. I have watched it for hours. Glowing purple on one batch of fiber optics (so cleverly, but not really) made to look like real pine needles. The purples turn to blues, the blues into greens, the yellows into---


Are you getting the picture? And no, I was sober and stuff. Just not sane


And yes, click the picture to enlarge each picture. It will help, unless your eyes have been equipped with magnifying glasses. Then you won't need to do so.