Last night I
watched a recorded Nova presentation on math.
Sometimes
around midnight I went to bed. After
getting my junk adjusted and my pillow just right I lay there waiting for
sleep, but could hear my pulse beating in my ear. I readjusted my head to cut out the sound,
but one of the monkey in my mind started counting numbers:
The average
heart beats sixty time a minute
60X60: that
would be 360 times an hour
and then the
Count takes over:
360X24=
8,640 beats a day;
All right I am running at the limit of my brain math, but I have got to answer the question if I am ever going to get to sleep
400X8000= around 3,200,000 beats a year
( actually 8,640X 365=
3,153,600);
Over the
hump of seventy years… round off…
Something around
a quarter of billion heart beats in my lifetime – that’s close enough.
Damn, hearts are really an impressive muscle
that we take for granted until they start to wear out.
Nonstop, a quarter of a billion…
Then I wake
up – it’s three-o-clock and I’ve got to pee.
DID I RUN and
AM I TIRED?
the Ol’Buzzard
