Spongy

On my way to DC this  past Sunday to meet up with Absi I noticed that my brakes felt spongy all of a sudden.  This forces even the slightest desire of deceleration to manifest itself as an I'm-gonna-die pedal-to-the-floor movement, which certainly made for exciting driving.  I'm going in to get that looked at today.  If I've diagnosed it correctly online, I probably just have some air in my hydraulics and it shouldn't be too difficult to fix.

Fittingly, I've also been feeling sort of spongy this week.  I think that I may have caught some sort of cold (probably from touching Tommy Wiseau... it was still worth it) and as a result my throat has been bugging me and I've had some nasal issues.  Luckily past-Mike is occasionally intelligent and bought me a few bottles of Dayquil and Nyquil several months ago, so I've been just fine.  

I've even had time to read some.  I recently finished a few books that I've been working on for a few months: a biography of Shakespeare, a biography of Andrew Jackson, and a biography of Augustus.  I like biographies.  After finishing Augustus, I picked up A Brief History of Time to reread.  I've been shocked at how much I missed in the original reading.  It really amazes me what we've been able to do with extremely simple tools- I mean, we can tell the composition of a star and whether it's moving towards us or away from us based solely on our knowledge of light spectra and the Doppler effect- things that we learn by ninth grade.  

It's like the Snuggie: a majority amazing scientific realizations are very simple and leave you wondering why someone hadn't thought of it before.