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so you know when you have work to do, and you should be doing it, and although you can probably keep working, you just stop because you want to take a break and get away?

that's happening now.

except now, they are getting dinner if we are staying later... which I was on the fence about - the whole staying later thing...

so I'm going to stay later.

I'm going to stay later and have ravioli...

while I am waiting for the ravioli, I'm going to continue to look through the oodles and oodles of test scripts because I need to find ones that coincide with the tests I think I need to run.

once I have determined which ones are the ones I think I need, I am going to have someone else look at them and tell me if they make sense - in doing so, review the documentation which I have prepared...

you know why?

because we have this thing called methodology.

and there is thing called a peer review - the point being to catch mistakes sooner so you don't have to rework later which costs more once you move to the next stage...

you know, it actually makes sense... because even though it takes more time - the whole point is that it will save time (and money) in the long run... it just depends on where you want to spend that time and with how many people.

aaaand I tell you this as if you might actually care...

but I know better.

I'm not a dentist, but I read or heard somewhere that you really should brush your teeth before you eat or at least a little while after... something about the acids from soda or certain foods making your enamel easier to rip into with your toothbrush or something.

or eat cheese when you are done eating and drinking because that is supposed to neutralize the acids that breakdown your teeth - and you know what toothdecay leads too... fillings, rootcanals, and unsightly gums and chompers...

btw - humans are decidedly omnivores - given that our teeth (or the rest of our physiology) do not match typical land herbivores or carnivores...

anyhow - my teeth feel fuzzy... maybe it was the swishing around of the iced tea in my mouth for a few minutes, but they feel funny...

tangent - don't you hate it when you get something stuck in your teeth (like corn or some other vegetable) but you can't reach it with your tongue and you are in public, so you don't want to reach it with your finger? So then you try to keep reaching for it with your tongue, only to have your tongue get tired, or worse, strained, from trying to position it to reach that spot between the back corner of your mouth and the inside of you cheek? yeah - that sucks.

so, I'm going to go to target - I believe they have toothpaste there, and I ran out of toothpaste this morning, and last night I didn't grab the toothpaste that lorie bought for me last week...

the trouble is, when I go to target, bad things happen...

like I buy stuff. :-P

there is a difference between googol and google...

I thought they were spelled the same way before now.

Now I know better.

did you know that when you stare at a computer screen or tv, that you are looking at nothing half of the time?

it's that whole concept of persistence of vision that allows us to watch animation is also what allows us to watch what is on a screen.

but, as the lights pulse across the screen, there are gaps between the flash, albeit very short ones...

in any case, while you watch tv or stare at your computer, wave your hand very fast across the screen... you will notice that there is a strobe like effect. now wave your hand at the light above your head - since that light is constant, notice that there is no strobe like effect.

isn't that amazing? I bet someone out there didn't know this, and I probably got about 10 people to wave at their computer screens just now, and maybe even the light. how funny is that? I hope no one else saw you.

of course, I was waving at my screen right after I type out that portion of the entry... so I guess that makes me a dork. of sorts.

so apparently, when you stare too long at the computer screen, so people are prone to get headaches... maybe it from stress, or maybe not, but I've heard that upping the refresh rate will help with eye strain... as in reducing it... so I've heard... I've maxed mine out, I think, but I'm going to look for the proper driver for the monitor in hope that I can up it some more.