Random Esquire

1.  I took my work wife out for drinks after work on Tuesday.  I had a beer.

She drank bourbon.

It’s not easy being work-married to me.

2.  It occurred to me today that when I see the color orange, it may be seen by someone else as purple, etc. and that we’re all seeing different colors for everything.  And maybe the same is true for the things we smell.  Or eat.  Maybe turkey in my mouth tastes completely different than turkey in someone else’s mouth.  I wonder what it would be like to eat with someone else’s mouth for a day.  Just to see what they think things taste like.

And then I wondered (again) if everything I smell is polluted somehow with the smell of the inside of my nose.  It’s sort of like a filter or sunglasses – it has to color everything, right?  What if the inside of my nose has a smell and so everything smells like just some variation of it?

3.  It has come to my attention that Lady Date Penelope has been fooling around on the side.  I am a little upset.  But not like, you know, Mel Gibson upset or anything.  I mean, I’m not a Nazi, for Christ’s sake.

4.  Regarding the previous entry – I concluded that I think there is a grain of truth to the saying.  Here is how I reached that conclusion.

I swapping the genders so that it read:

A)  “a man wants to have sex with a woman because he’s fallen in love with her. A woman falls in love with a man because she wants to have sex with him”

and then I compared it to the original:

B)  “a woman wants to have sex with a man because she’s fallen in love with him. A man falls in love with a woman because he wants to have sex with her”

and I did not think to myself, “They are both completely wrong.”  Instead, A) seemed somehow *more* inaccurate than B).

So I concluded that I think there is a smidge of truth to the saying.

5.  I’d like to ask someone to smell the inside of my nose but it isn’t like I could take their word on what it smells like anyway.

Where’s Descartes when I need him?