Early Again. Weekends are Hard (Ex 8 /58)

I guess if we didn't have emotions, there's not much of a difference in being a stick.
Well, a stick that walks, talks, eats, sleeps and excretes stuff.
How boring would we be without emotions?
Or is bored an emotion and we wouldn't be anyway?
Living just to exist by itself is bland.
Emotions whether we like them or not create variety.
For every low, there's a sigh.
For every high, there's a smile.
For every sadness, there's a tear.
For every joy, there's something that makes you feel joyish.
Eventually.
Emotions create motivation one way or the other.
Either to do something or not.
To say something or not.
How we handle them, distinguishes who we are.
Not just to others, but to ourselves.
If you make it sound right it must be true hey? ;)

Melancholy is an emotion I'm not used to experiencing.
It's not who I am.
I'm a happy guy.
I'd rather laugh than cry.
In appropriate places of course.
Unless I'm crying with laughter.
Can we laughing with cry?
I think so.
Lack of sleep induced melancholy is not a cool thing to experience.
Glad I got over it.

Exodus 8
I will never forget some parts of a “Memorise the Bible” course I went to when I was a little chillun.
“Eye sack” point to your eye (Isaac) was one part.
The other was “Let me people go! NO!”
And here it is in v1.
It also leads into one of the more squeamish chapters of the Bible for me.
Frogs.
Lots of frogs.
And again the Egyptian magicians (that sounds funny when you say it over and over. Try and say it without smiling.) were able to duplicate the feat.
I would be sitting there if I was the Pharaoh thinking “Great. More blinking frogs! Just shoot me now.”
I don’t quite get why and how the magicians could duplicate the last two plagues.
Was it to show they could start them, but only God could start AND stop them?
Was it just an illusion to try and save face?
Egyptian David Copperfields?
I go with option A for $20.

V13 and 14 are just so wrong on at least 2 counts
“The frogs died out in the houses(1), the courtyards, and the fields.
And they gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank(2).”

Only thing worse than a live frog is a stinky dead frog.
Thought I should insert random Monty Python reference here.

Milton: We use only the finest baby frogs, dew-picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in the finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope, and lovingly frosted with glucose.
Praline: That's as may be, but it's still a frog!
Milton: What else?
Praline: Well don't you even take the bones out?
Milton: If we took the bones out it wouldn't be crunchy would it?
Praline: Superintendent Parrot ate one of those.
Parrot: Excuse me a moment. (exits hurriedly)
Praline: Well, the Superintendent thought it was an almond whirl. People won't expect there to be a frog in there. They're bound to think it's some sort of mock frog.
Milton: (insulted) Mock frog? We use no artificial preservatives or additives of any kind!
Praline: Nevertheless, I must warn you that in future you should delete the words 'crunchy frog', and replace them with the legend, 'crunchy raw unboned real dead frog' if you want to avoid prosecution.

I guess the worse part of the gnats was that they came AFTER the frogs.
All these bugs.
All these dead frogs.
All these Egyptians slapping their heads going Doh!
And a hard heart.

Let my people go.
No!

Flies and flies and flies.
And still dead frogs.
More head slaps.
And a hard heart.
Again.