Tonight marked the official end of my 50th birthday celebration. We deflated my birthday balloons as they were starting to droop rather sadly. We are having people over to the house in a day or two and we didn’t want to depress them with the sorry state of our balloons.

Since they were helium balloons, I thought it would be fun to do a little inhaling and try talking like cartoon characters. The last time I did this (about 30 years ago) was with helium in a tank and I discovered that you can, in fact, inhale too much helium, and that when you do you fall down like a drunk, laughing hysterically the entire time. Last night we only had three half-deflated balloons so the risks seemed small this time.

It turned out to be every bit as much fun as I thought it would be. I only wish we’d had more balloons. You can see and hear the results of the experiments. Here’s Chuck’s effort. You can see the difference. He squeaks whereas I have the rockin’ cartoon voice. Ha-ha! I rule!