Collateral Bloggage

I’ve never been accused of being particularly punctual.  I don’t really like being late, and yet I tend to manage it anyway.  So, I’ve rolled out a new plan.  Leave 10 minutes early.  Yep, I determine how much time I need to get somewhere on time, then tack on ten minutes.  I just bring a book along, so if I end up early (perish the thought!), I just grab some quick reading time.

It works.  I’m keepin’ it.

—————-

Book mini-review!  I recently finished reading 50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know, by Joanne Baker.  The book is about 200 pages, which makes basically four pages per idea, and that’s just the right number of pages and the right amount of information to keep it interesting without going into overload.  Except the chapter on Quantum Mechanics.  There’s just little that can be done to make that interesting.

But if you’ve ever been interested to find out just a little about the Theory of Relativity or Nuclear Fission and Fusion, you’d get a lot out of this book.  That is, you’d get a little about a lot.  I used it for a bedtime book, because I knew I could read four pages and be done with a chapter.  I’ll admit I kept falling asleep while trying to read the Quantum chapter, but it was midnight, so it may have been more a function of my weariness than the content of the chapter.  Or maybe not.

—————-

I sang with the choir at church on Sunday, a decision which garnered me much ridicule from my coworkers (it happens when you leave your choir music out on a lab bench).  Anyway…between services, one of the other men went outside and got rained on.  Big time.  He came back in completely drenched.

So, as we took our places on the risers, I saw that he had failed to rid himself of all the water droplets on his shoulders and back.  I proceeded to swipe them away for him.  What a nice guy, eh?  Yeah, it was the wrong guy.  And those were not water drops.  They were dandruff.  The guy took it with good humor, but I was a bit red in the face.  Trying to be nice, but ending up in a bad Selsun Blue commercial.  That’s me.

—————-

As someone who runs three times a week, I find it irritating that my entire running outfit doesn’t go in the same laundry-sorting-hamper.  Specifically, I don’t like that my socks are white and the rest of my outfit is composed of darks.  It’s not an aesthetic thing, because I’m not really that metro (although I do groom my eyebrows somewhat to appease the Fair Elaine).  It’s just a laundry thing.  So, I was elated to find at my local Costco warehouse…drum roll…black socks.  Specifically, the same model of Champion Athletic Socks I currently use, but instead of white, they’re black.  Awesome.  The only gripe I have is that they’re supposed to fit sizes six through twelve.  Which basically means nine and a half.  On my size twelves, they’re a bit snug.  Maybe there’s another size.