Icewind's Ramblings

I once heard someone say, “The brain is like a very complex super computer.” That’s bullshit! Whoever came up with that saying hasn't read any of my writings or looked at my blog? Happy Holiday! Ice

Recently, I found myself sitting in a doctor's waiting room while waiting on a friend to come out from his checkup. The details aren't important, and his condition was neither life-threatening nor contagious. The important detail is simply this: it was my first trip to this particular waiting room, and I don’t think I would mind a bit if it were also my last. First of all, there was the usual waiting room nonsense. You sit there waiting while people come and go through the different doors of the waiting room. I tend to spend the time watching people as I try to read or glance through the months old magazines. The long and boring dawdling of the office staff, the moldy and uncomfortable chairs (why don’t they clean them sometimes). I can deal with these things as it reminds me of an apartment I lived in many years ago that had some of these things in it. I'm cool with that, bored but ok while waiting. But on this day, in this waiting room, something just...

It is possible to be distracted by your own thoughts? That is the very reason mind altering drug use is discouraged. It breaks your concentration so you cannot hear all of the voices inside your head. Cold here this week with the holidays coming and family flying in for a few days. All of the preparations for a great meal and will probably as in the past, hours getting things ready and it’s over in about 45 minutes with almost everyone lying down for a nap. Ice

Did you solve it? See how well you did as here are the Answers. They're all prisoners: 1) 6 - Patrick McGoohan 's character in The Prisoner 2) 37 - Paul Newman 's character in Cool Hand Luke 3) 85 - Al Capone 4) 95 057 - Timothy McVeigh 5) 101 980 - Slobodan Milosevic 6) 466 64 - Nelson Mandela 7) 24601 - Jean Valjean in Les Miserables 8) 42799 - Frank Sinatra 9) 655321 - Alex in A Clockwork Orange 10) 64389000 - The Man in the Iron Mask It may have been the last one that gave it away! It’s amazing what you can Google these days. Ice