h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I mostly enjoy the , black and strong. But a friend in southern England does keep me supplied with decent tea . . . satchets and loose-leaf.

No kettle to put on...
But I am sat in Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh with a pot of Tea in front of me

Over here it is one past the yardarm

The kettle is here: v/_\3

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I don't have a kettle going, but I do currently have my iced tea maker steeping my personal blend of iced tea. I use two sachets of decaf Luzianne iced tea and two Celestial Seasonings Bengal Spice, a blend of cinnamon, ginger, cardamom and vanilla flavors. It really makes the office smell... Bengalish.

This morning I read an interesting article about and napping

I think it's safe to say that around here people usually take a short nap before waking up with a cup of

However, recent research has shown that in order to get the full effect of both one should take the PRIOR to napping 20 minutes (no more, or you will fall too deep asleep).

The argument is that it takes the caffeine approximately 20 minutes to reach certain receptors in the brain via the bloodstream.

Makes sense to me

I permanently sleepy even though I drink (not particularly strong) and sometimes its quite milk. At the moment I am drinking made from unbleached teabags. I am not very good at making as either get it too weak (like I am having now) or too strong.

I will try drinking twenty minutes before I have a nap.

if my message was unclear: You are expected to take a 20 minute nap right after you drink your . That way the caffeine will kick in exactly when you wake up

No for me and even the iced tea I drink is typically decaf. Caffeine causes Premature Ventricular Contractions (PVCs) for me.

A brisk walk usually suffices to wake me up.

*waves at everybody*
We had such a good time with Amy in Manchester - the walking tour was great, and the Beer Noveau brewery evening!

Hello! Was good to catch up!

For those who I am not friends with on Facebook. I FINALLY got hired to a full time teaching position! Psychology and Latinos In Action (LIA).

And I have been to, and returned from, Nodnol and points north, and have photos to prove it! https://www.flickr.com/photos/amy_paperlady/collections/72157684860571873/

Still great news, GDZ And surviving Nodnol is surely something, Amy

Santraing from thirty-odd thousand feet an route to Tehran Now, internet is getting more common on long(er) distance flights, so that one is not so new.

But I do believe this is the first time I have been meta-ish enough to sit in a plane and online-order ... flight tickets

Just returned from six days on the Faroe Islands. Spectacular place!

Those are the ones that your viking ancestors would pull their longboats over rather than go around, yes?

They settled there around 850 AD and later settled on Iceland, Greenland and Newfoundland as well.

I doubt they had any inclinations to pull their longboats over them.

These days they blast tunnels through them. I visited a village with 13 inhabitants. Until 2003 they had to walk over a very high rim to get into contact with the outside world. But now they have a 1.7 km long tunnel - and all the blessings of being overrun by tourists

I always wondered how do the people of the Faroe Islands feel about Britain having invaded back in 1940? (It was a pre-emptive invasion - Germany having invaded mainland Denmark, Britain invaded the Faroe Islands first, and also Iceland, so that Germany wouldn't invade and use them as a submarine base).

The Faroe Islands came 2nd in this year's Island Games (the Isle of Wight came 9th out of 23).

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According to my taxi driver - a former school teacher - the Faroese accepted the inevitability of the British invasion. Since the only alternative would have been a German invasion. (Apparently the British arrived only hours before the Germans.)

However a lot of Faroese families were forced to share housings because the British military needed space for offices et cetera. Those families may not have been over enthusiastical, I guess.

That was probably better than what the Germans of the time would have done.