Tonight's contribution came in the midst of updating hockey stats, paying bills online and helping both kids with projects. When my wife asked me for something I told her I needed a "few more lambda", which required an explanation of bandwidth and photonics. Sometimes it's hard being the lone nerd in the family.
What does this have to do with life on the road? Simple. At times you have to succumb to guilty pleasures. Maybe it's using textbook geek phraseology, or maybe it's just grabbing some ice cream with the kids after trying and failing to explain the subtle nuances of recursion. Ice cream solves more problems than higher math. And if you're traveling, it's something you can rationalize by hitting the gym early the next morning. At least that's what I tell myself before realizing the only shoes I have in transit are penny loafers.
Tonight I enjoyed a small vat of Maggie Moo's Better Batter ice cream. The consistency and flavor are so close to raw brownie batter that you'd swear you were licking the beaters. A recursive guilty pleasure.
Posted by James Governor on November 01, 2004 at 08:11 AM EST #