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In that I am about to graduate from IU East, receiving my BA in Behavioral Social Sciences (an event unbelievable in and of itself), I have decided to move my IU East blog to a new home at brickbike.com. What better way to inaugurate the new site than by celebrating an unbelievable rocket launch? I can’t think of anything better, so here are the first pictures of the unbelievable FLeYeball!

Now, I’m sure you’re wondering, “What’s so unbelievable about the FLeYeball?” Well, let me tell you. It flew. It was totally ill-conceived, and wholly not aerodynamic. It should have careened into the air like an out-of -control Macy’s Day balloon, and pummeled into the ground like a like a frozen turkey dropped from a helicopter, but it didn’t… it flew. And baby it flew perfectly. Well, maybe not exactly perfectly. It launched in a perfect parabola over 33 North 28th Street. Only problem was, the rocket motor was still firing on the downward leg. All indications pointed towards a catastrophic collision with terra firma. But alas, the gods of pint-sized propulsion were smiling on us. We located the FLeYeball hanging like a delicate Christmas ornament, about 8-feet from the ground in a tree in the neighbor’s yard.

The FleYeball was constructed especially for the best optometrist west of Cape Canaveral, my big sister, Dr. Elisabeth J. Binnig of Westerville, OH., in celebration of her 32nd* birthday. It was conceived in response to the expression, “You’ll put your eye out with that thing!” Instead of a rocket you could put your eye out with, it’s an eye put out with a rocket rocket. Congratulations EJB on an excellent flight!

* Not consistent with Betsy’s chronological age (here based on her being three years my senior, and my having been 29 for the last several years).