Randoms

Pre­pare for a con­vo­luted jour­ney. But some­time things just con­nect through strange paths. And I must make some apol­ogy for the way my mind works, espe­cially dur­ing those peri­ods in the mid­dle of the night when I wake up and do not fall back asleep quickly. Lately I have not really been sleep­ing very well. Not that I can­not fall asleep. Prob­lem is more a mat­ter of stay­ing asleep for an extended period. I get a fair amount of exer­cise, so that is not the prob­lem. Won’t try to delude you that my caf­feine con­sump­tion is low (strongly rec­om­mend Par­adise Roast­ers! - Suma­tra — Danau Toba and Ethiopia — Awassa Spe­cial are cur­rent favorites) but usu­ally avoid late in the day. Some time I lie there and think. But other times I get up and open up the com­puter to peruse ran­dom top­ics. I am always look­ing for pat­terns and con­nec­tions and just can­not restrict myself to one sub­ject. Prob­a­bly why I so loved the Con­nec­tions series by James Burke. May also be why I am addicted to Sudoku. Pat­terns, pat­terns, pat­terns … May even help explain the com­ment made when I was apply­ing for grad­u­ate school in the field I even­tu­ally did not choose about scor­ing too high on the Gen­eral Knowl­edge sec­tion. Some bull­shit about not being able to com­mit to one field of study - prob­a­bly wasn’t too smart to push back that I though it reflected a broad inter­est in the world that was a good trait dur­ing the inter­view - but that’s me.

Any­hoo, might as well share the wealth! You never know, some of the ran­dom dri­vel might just inter­est some­one out there. So, I will take advan­tage of the fact that this is my blog, well mine and Still Here Too’s but she usu­ally lets me do what I want, and start a series called “Ran­doms”. It will be just that. BE FOREWARNED!

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