It’s 5:25 in the AM. The nerves in my body just completed their daily reconnection with my brain. I really want Coffee, and I’ve just now becoming coherent enough to think: I can successfully pour 4 cups of water and 3 scoops of Yuban into a Mr. Coffee machine, and press a red button.
At the exact same time I am also thinking, “today I have got to finish editing that wedding. It will be 2-weeks this Saturday, and All I have to do is transfer the project from my laptop to my G5 Tower, and finish the editing on the color corrected lightning fast, as powerful as the Death Star Apple computer, and start the upload to the server.”
You see, my brain is awake immediately in the mornings. That very first dose of caffeine, is for my body. It’s my organs that are addicted to the drug. I need to to increase my heart rate from a slumbering 34 beats per minute. I need the drug to breathe a little stimulation into my limbs and digits, and yes, the extra mild laxative effect makes sure I stay regular.
Then my Tuesday morning logic kicks in, “If I start the export before I start my coffee, I can make my computer work for me, while the coffee is brewing.” Genius!
Here’s the rub, The mechanical expertise to use a computer is several magnitudes of cognitive ability greater than making coffee. I can scoop, and pour, using gross motor movements, but trying to coordinate ten individual digits to fly across a keyboard in darkness creates sentances like: spesxcfs sdfEs thdE denscet.
When I was younger, I was told that I was really smart, so I reach for the firewire cable…
