reveries - 5. On 42

I turn 42 today.
Jackie Robinson wore #42.
One time in a summer league basketball game in Bourbon, I scored 42 points.
42 days into 2012, I will have written 42 new blog entries.
My world literature class will meet 42 times this semester--41 classes and a final exam period.
Volume 42 of the Great Books of the Western World includes the major works of Immanuel Kant. I've never read it. I don't plan on wasting my 42nd year doing so.
Psalm 42 begins, "As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God."
42 feet is a perfect distince between home plate and the pitchng rubber in wiffle ball.
"Cholly was beyond redemption, of course, and redemption was hardly the point--Mrs. Breedlove was not interested in Christ the Redeemer, but rather in Christ the Judge." (p. 42, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison--a heartbreakingly beautiful novel of lost innocence you should go to the library right now and get).
Say "Tea for two" really fast about 10 times and I bet you'll almost say 42.
I've always found Matthew 5:42--"Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you"--harder to follow than I would like to admit.
6 x 7. Also 41 + 1.
24--the number I wore in basketball most of the time--backwards is 42.
A Double Quarter Pounder from McDonald's contains 42 grams of fat.
If gained 42 pounds--perhaps by eating 42 Double Quarter Pounders a week for the next 42 days (6 weeks)--I would weigh 225 pounds.
I just did 42 push-ups, so I could say that I just did 42 push-ups.
Apparantly this guy http://youtu.be/tRe1wFIACw8 has a 42 inch vertical. He definitely has a really cool Alfalfa hair thing going.
I would bet 42 dollars that fewer than 42 people will actually read this blog entry.