Brain Freeze

Winter has finally set in here in NY. Most mornings the temperature with the wind chill is 15 degrees or lower. Unfortunately for me, my office requires at least 15 mins of walking outside to get to and I usually just do the 22 minute walk from home.

But 22 minutes in these temperatures begins to affect your motor skills as well as your ability to think. As the blood flow slows, your legs become less responsive thereby increasing the likelihood that you say, run into and knock over an old lady or continue to walk out into oncoming traffic even though your brain is signaling for your legs to stop and wait for the look both ways.

And speaking of the brain, you find yourself thinking things that make very little sense. For example at about the 15 minute mark today I thought to myself, "on a scale of 1 to 10 how cold is it today?" and my immediate internal response was, "pretty damn cold."

Clearly I'm not firing on all cylinders... but at least I've got another half hour of thawing to do before I start real work...

How to toast

I just got a new toaster for Christmas. I was a little apprehensive of getting one of these contraptions being that I had never made toast before. Thankfully, GE foresaw this problem and included these handy instructions in the box:

HOW TO TOAST

1. Plug toaster into electrical outlet.
2. Place bread in slots. Select shade and press down bread lifter.
3. At the end of the toasting cycle, the bread will pop up automatically. Lift up on bread lifter to reach small bread.
NOTE: The bread lifter will not latch down unless toaster is plugged in.
4. To stop the toasting cycle sooner, lift up bread lifter or push the cancel button.

I had no idea that making toast was so complicated. Thank goodness I got a GE toaster.

Ok, I've got to get back to reading the owners manual. It's 18 pages long.