Was on the road yesterday ...

doing some consulting work in the city.

When I was employed by industrial Amercia, one of the perks was that my company suscribed to a number of magazines every month. Granted that most of them were engineering oriented towards our particular industry, but some were more generic.

Scientific American was one I read every month-which was very frustrating. The editorial board at SciAm had bought into the culture of death as progress for the betterment of mankind and the environment. I wrote several letters to the editor, none of which were ever published. (This is the only publication I ever have written to which did not publish my letters-maybe the truth was too threatening.)

But my favorite was a quarterly magazine which married my profession (science/engineering/ inventions-I was/am a patent agent with my love-history): Invention & Technology.

I am doing some consulting work at the old company now an then and was there yesterday. So I stopped by the library and picked up a back issue of Invention & Technology and brought it home.

The Spring 2007 issue has a story on 'Revolutionary Restaurants"-or how they developed those restaurants that rotate while you eat. Reading it brought to mind a story from a business trip I made years ago.

I was in Detroit to visit the site of an experimental installation. The restaurant we ate at one night was on the top floor of hotel, overlooking the city. At some point during the meal I turned to my collegue and asked where the men's room was, as he had left the table to go earlier during the meal.

He replied, "It was just over there to your right when I went. I don't know where it is now."

I said, "What do mean, you don't know where it is now? They can't just move it around."

He looked at me strangely and said, "No they aren't moving the bathroom, we are moving!"

Sure enough, we were at one of these rotating restaurants where the outer ring, where the tables are, rotate, while the center is stationary. We had been there for over an hour and I hadn't noticed!

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Will be on the road part of today. First Friday Mass at St. Catherine's-followed by breakfast in the hall. Then instead of returning home, thee is a big "Friends of the Library" book sale in Camden. We went to their sale with a couple dollars and lots of loose change two years ago and came out with bags of books and some reading treasures. (Not that we need more books around here.) The kids love it. They can actually afford the prices. (I am sure they will complete their Christmas shopping today.)

And we finally got some rain around here yesteday (maybe more today.) Thanks be to by God!

Oremus pro invicem!