This may seem patently obvious, but grass seed needs water to grow. I know, I know, I'm not exactly challenging your intellectual thinking skills. I often wonder if the general populace really gets this stuff, and I'm only privy to the small sampling of people to whom logic cannot stick. I engage in the following question and answer series more times in a year than you can imagine. Q: I have lots of bare patches in my lawn, what can I do to fill them in? A: Seed them, or have a company seed them for you. Make sure to water daily until they fill in. Q: Okay, but I can't really water. The property is too spread out and I'm on a well that we don't want to stress. A: Okay. Q: So, what can I do? A: Pray for rain. Q: What if it doesn't rain? A: Try to water. Q: But I can't.

I love technology. Some people like it because it allows us to do incredibly complicated things that otherwise would not have been possible. I like it because it allows us to do incredibly normal things with almost no effort whatsoever.

As far as humanity goes, we live in a whopper of a different world than our ancestors did. Want something to eat? Chances are pretty darned good that it's only a few steps away in the refrigerator or cabinet. Cabinets empty? Go to the store, or a diner. Refrigerator empty? Same advice. It's pretty simple really. Nowadays, we can pretty much have whatever we want as long as we can pay for it.

Okay, today's the big day I dive into the world of blogging alongside a bunch of other science type bloggers, most of whom I would probably nod at blankly if we were involved in a deep conversation at a cocktail party. Perhaps it's a function of psychology. No matter how smart I am, I always feel dumb around people who like using big words that end with "ogy" and start with a group of letters that are nearly unpronounceable when put in that particular order.