Shouldn’t you feel stimulated at the prospect of receiving stimulus? I would think it would be so much so that the stimulation would properly stimulate you into remembering when you’ve received it.

If there is no stimulation of the kind, then I would suggest you were probably entirely unstimulated and did not receive any stimulus.

In addition to my opening with all things stimulus-related, I also have tried to figure out today whether or not it is as relaxing to listen to someone’s work as it is to watch them work.

How can you only hear someone work you ask? Well, if they are sanding the frame of a door outside the door while you’re sitting on the other side of said door, or inside, that is one way to achieve the only-listening-to-someone-work scenario (instead of watching them also).

I came in on the tail end of the sanding and so did not have the benefit of a very long sample period of time of listening to the person’s work.

I kind of want to say it was pretty relaxing, except for the times when the electric sander ground a bit too loud to be able to call it that.

The same thing occurred when the person ran the vacuum cleaner outside the door and sucked up the sand and debris caused by their sanding.

The vacuuming sounds were not as relaxing as the actual sanding sounds, as the vacuuming took place with the door partially open, which magnified the sounds to the point of their being not very relaxing.

Anyway, I will have to watch someone dig a hole or something so I can re-familiarize myself with the relaxing nature of just watching someone work, as watching them is clearly more relaxing than just listening to them.

And on we go to something else…

I really like everything bagels.

“Everything” is really a misnomer, though.

They actually do not have everything on them. What they do have is every kind of speck imaginable on them–pepper, seed, salt, spice, etc. I don’t really know what the other specks are. I only know they’re there, on the bagel until you either a) take them out of the bag; and b) separate (if they’re pre-cut) the bagel into halves; and c) put said halves into the toaster; and d) take them out of the toaster.

Everything tends to become a lesser version of itself after the specks scatter about the kitchen counter, toaster, and floor.

I would recommend we have a bagel called either Everything lite or Not-so-much everything, as that is what happens to the bagel by the time you get done slathering it with either butter, cream cheese, or peanut butter.

If you left an opened beer out…

Can it survive at room temperature for 18 hours before putting what’s remaining back into the fridge to cool it down again?

And what will said beer taste like?

I know my better half was not very optimistic it would still be as robust as it was when originally opened.

I agree but have also come to realize similar to products not produced in this country, it will probably be good enough once revisited.

I’ll let you know how the refrigerate-the-open-room-temperature beer experiment turns out.

You have my word.