Brain Drool

Oh boy, what a day it was!

First, the plumbers tell me that they’re going to actually be ripping down the inside part of one of our walls tomorrow…yikes!

So our shower was suddenly backing up to near over-flow levels.  This led to a pre-liminary investigation by a plumber who, my brute force and I’m sure a minor bit of ignorance, broke something.  One broken thing led to potential leaking into the apartment below us, which now requires the gutting of a wall.  Oh the joys of living in a 90 year old building.  These events certainly put a damper on my hopes of having a highly productive week of research.

Second, the iPad was announced.

Having found myself in the poor farm lately, I see the iPad as one more useless device of Applopulence.  Perhaps after I give one a test drive, I will feel differently.  But for now, I’m giving the iPad two big thumbs down based on it’s price and limited functionality.

Third, the state of the union rocked my socks off.

I know, I know, this probably upsets a lot of you.  I was actually entertained by the state of the union. Having such a suave president makes the rhetoric more bearable, and occasionally even believable. Now we’ll see what happens when the rubber hits the road.  If you’re into grabbing coffee, wine, beer, cheese or anything deep fried and discussing politics, I’m game.

Fourth, I’m reading a book about prayer.

Entitled A Praying Life, by Paul Miller, I’ve mainly been taken in by the book’s treatment of the concept of cynicism.  That, however, is a topic which will require much more space than I desire to devote in this short post.  Thus, I’ll leave you with a definition of cynicism from the American Heritage Dictionary: An attitude of scornful or jaded negativity, especially a general distrust of the integrity or professed motives of others.