Silly rhetoric

Scientists feel they are facing a new era of limits even as the universe itself is screaming to be explored. - headline, Washington Post website, December 26, 2013

Really? We're supposed to believe that the universe has lately cranked up its clamoring for us to discover its mysteries?  (And I thought that was just my tinnitus worsening.)

In some ways, though more respectable than most, scientific knowledge is like any other addiction. There is always more, and the more you have the more you want. This is the danger of every false idol we deify.

Short shots . . .

If there's one thing worse than when the WOTD is already in the vocabulary of 98% of English speakers, it's when they don't bother to share any etymology, either . . .

Today I am having jealousy issues. I'm sure they will go away tomorrow, though, in my first free fall - well, of more than a few feet, of course; everyone has fallen that far . . .

Sometimes I have to remind myself that I'm glad to be a person who at least considers each day how I should be spending my time, rather than just deciding all day long what I want to do next . . .

So I've been asked to serve as treasurer instead of leadership team member. Maybe it's just the thing I need to get over my fear of dealing with money; maybe it's a good thing for me to do that with someone else's money, where there would be no chance for surprises. Umm, probably not . . .

Looking through possible recipes for Sunday and Wednesday, and realizing that most of the ones I'm rejecting look positively yummy to me . . .

Okay, time to get back to how I should be spending my time.