Uncle Chris – Reading is Fun
Sometimes the fact that reading is fun comes naturally. That is how it is for me in most cases. I like reading, hell, I love reading! However, I have recently rediscovered it as a full time occupation due to an extraordinary set of events.
First, the home TV is busted. It has been that way for a couple of weeks now, and it will persist in such a state for most likely another week while we wait for the repair company to receive the proper parts. Along with that I recently attempted to upgrade some RAM in my PC, this resulted in a coincidental death of a memory slot on the motherboard.
I have since ordered a new motherboard (A nice Gigabyte) and have subsequently RMA’d it. Yep, an RMA on the new board. It was simply a bad one (the first non-working item i have received from NewEgg). From the get go it never once posted to BIOS. The old motherboard does work – minus some memory – but the effort to get everything back together just to take it apart again is beyond my patience, especially when i have a laptop.
How does this create professional reading? Because with no TV and no PC games of any sort, I have a great deal of time on my hands. I also have the motivation of starting a Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program next week, so quite a bit of refresher work is being done. It would have been hard for me to imagine a couple of years ago that it was possible to forget some of the basics of classical conditioning, but when you travel abroad and across the country for a couple of years doing anything and everything that does not involve your degree, things have a way of slipping out of mind.
Luckily, relearning is much easier. I have found the amazing ability to get through one hundred of more pages of text books in a day with almost total comprehension. This should encourage all of you to start rereading things you learned in the past, the feeling of brilliance is a nice perk!
Who knows… I may even get some real updates ready for Sustainable Democracy… Reading “Stranger in a Strange Land” has certainly given me ample material to think broadly about. That and the complete lack of news I get is rather refreshing.
So kids, do like Uncle Chris, read more, watch less, make your friends suspect communism may be rearing its ugly head again.
