At 05:31 PM 1/15/03 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
Well, maybe not, but you never can tell with someone who gets absorbed in *reading* the 2-week-old newspapers he's supposed to be using to protect the carpet, instead of starting to paint the wall in anything approximating a timely manner. :)
Me, too. And, really, we're _not_ just procrastinating. There's just so much interesting stuff published in the paper.
When he, ahem, is in the bathroom, does he read (or re-read, or re-re-read) the labels on the cans if there's nothing else available to read? When I was younger and we visited them every few weeks, I could probably not only tell you what products my grandmother and my mother's sister kept on their bathroom shelves, but could probably have identified any of them from the list of ingredients . . .
(Of course in those days I was still thinking about going into chemistry.)
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
--Dr. Jerry Pournelle
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