there is some indescribable joy in eating a simple meal that reminds you of childhood... i had some plain rice, accompanied by eggs scrambled with shallots, butter-carressed blanched runner beans and saut?d spiced ham for lunch today... a late lunch on a 'lazy' saturday... it is odd, but i do enjoy eating spiced ham that comes in a wee can... but not the other kind of sp_m... oh no... in fact, i cannot quite understand why the uoe-email-server/services etc. aren't as good in blocking 'UCE' as the ones in umn are... it is truly quite mind-boggling. but i digress... i wanted to say that i didn't know that spiced ham originated in minnesota... i've always thought it was an australian thing... don't ask me why.
it occurred to me recently that i've been quite mistaken... i always thought that engineers, physicists, mathematicians and computer scientists were the only ones who are able to deal with a lot of math and programming... but i am so wrong... i know medical doctors and psychologists who are very adept in these things too... scary... i mean wow. i suppose it's not so much your 'training' but how open-minded you are about it all... it's a mental obstacle i suppose... and we either embrace numbers or to think them incomprehensibly abstract... however, the rest of us do deal with numbers everyday, too!
i drink far too much tea... i mean i know that and it's shocking... but coffee tastes horrible when it's pitch black and i am staying away from drinking milk... it appears to intensify my apparent hay-fever symptoms ... soya milk might be a little better... but for some reason... the coffee brewed at the lab tastes quite horrible... so i sneak to the espresso machine and press a wee button for a large shot... ahem... and add some sugar to make it go down easier... anyways i overheard an interesting comment by a visiting researcher (probably dutch or british by birth for he did have a rather european accent...) one day as my colleague showed him and his students about after they were fortunate to pick up a mug of tea each, for the music-man of the lab (i call R the music-man cause he is really the music-man in the lab) just brewed us all a teapot of fresh tea... the visitor remarked:"it is rare to find an american drinking tea!.... usually you'd find americans drinking coffee, and more typically," (with emphasis) "...the typical american drinks instant coffee!"....
my subconscious mind is awfully independent and influential at times... it seems to be the one conjuring up all the moments of procrastination that i engage in after some many hours of brain-draining number-crunching... it's quite amusing but frightening at the same time...
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