Brain-fog.  A mental deficiency – sometimes temporary – when you can’t think of anything to talk about on your weekly blob. 

Answer: reach out for internet help. Browse on “When you can’t think of anything interesting to write about”. These suggested topics, extensively modified to accommodate my own personal capabilities, might work. Or not.

So here’s Octo-woman’s personal list of Brain-fog Blob Topics:

1. Join a local volleyball or kickball league.  You will have plenty of stories if you do this. 

2. Describe a crime you have committed. Guaranteed to be an attention-getter.

3. Avoid sharing your recipe collection. Your readers may not have an avid interest in your eleven ways to cook celery.

4. Being as succinct and engaging as possible, write a suicide note. 

5. Based on your own user experience, list the 10 most popular incontinence products.

6. Request advice for efficient ways to oil your shotgun. Give that sawed-off a catchy name, like “Omar”. For a user guide, review all seasons of “The Wire”.

7. With your Rollator walker as partner, demonstrate the basic steps on how to do a hot samba.

8. Dare to be different. For a swanky new look, set your nose ring aside, and hang your hearing aid in the hole instead. 

9. Remembering that anything worth doing is worth doing to excess, write yet another blob about either of your two heroes – Jack Reacher or Elon Musk. 

The topic chosen for this week will have to be No. 9 above. Elon Musk re-visited, because in case you don’t know this, he may be in trouble yet again.

As we speak, a piece of space junk from one of Elon’s SpaceX rockets launched in 2015 is hurtling toward the moon. It’s set to crash into the lunar surface 26 days from today on March 4th. 

The upper stage of the rocket booster is the size of a school bus, it weighs four tons, and is traveling at a speed of 5600 mph. This is the first time that we know of that humans have ever accidentally crash-landed anything on the lunar surface. Elon has a habit of always being the first.

The rocket remnant has been tumbling through space for the past 7 years. It was too far away from Earth and had too little fuel to return, so instead, it’s been yanked around by the Earth and the moon’s gravitational pull in what experts say is a “chaotic” orbit.

This piece of space junk could have gone in a lot of different directions. It could have gone into an orbit where it would have hit the Earth, or it could have even been picked up into an orbit around the sun. But a couple of weeks ago, new data showed the rocket piece was going to crash into the moon. The moon is going to get a new crater.

According to Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer with the Center for Astrophysics Harvard and Smithsonian, the rocket piece is “going to get completely destroyed. A huge plume of moon dust is going to go up where it hit and then settle down over a wide area of the moon,” he said. 

After about a day, the dust will settle and there will be a “sparkly fresh new lunar crater,” McDowell said. What isn’t a big concern, though, is this accidental lunar crash causing any harm to people on Earth, or any major problems for the moon itself.

“It’s a policy concern in the long run,” McDowell said. “But this particular piece of space junk smashing into the moon… the moon’s had lots of things smash into it over the years. It’ll be fine.”

That’s easy for him to say about the moon, but the Owl and the Pussycat may differ. And so, too, the cow that jumps over it, while the little dog won’t be laughing to see such sport, either. And anyway, I’m still not convinced that the whole moon isn’t made of cheese – a bowl of it soon to be grated or shredded ala Elon. 

And so it goes on a brain-foggy day.