(For those of you who have seen this particular episode of 'Friends,' you'll understand what I'm referring to.)

I was walking down my stairs the other day, going through in my mind what all I had to do that day, when all of a sudden a thought popped into my head. I started thinking about how fascinating it is that certain things can do what they do. An example: marveling at how a computer works, with the mouse and the cursor and the clicking links and buttons and all that stuff. Another example: being in awe of how airplanes are able to fly; thinking how in the hell does a dishwasher clean your dishes with so little soap? And how, for that matter, does the soap reach the dishes?

It was only slightly sobering to realize that I felt like Alec Baldwin at this moment. That maybe I'd walk into the bathroom and take a mental picture of the miracle that is a flushing toilet. But then I thought "hey, if it brings me joy to contemplate all the miraculous and amazing technology we have in this world, from catalytic converters to vacuum cleaners, then fuck it, I will contemplate as much as I want." So that's what I continued doing.