I've made an important sociological discovery today.

Grouting tile is without doubt the most mindless activity ever devised by man.  It also takes a very long time.  To say the least, the mind tends to wander.  This permits a number of other random observations, possibly of less epochal importance.

• That last glug of water in the mix will be too much.  That is most likely to be true when you've already added the last bit of grout from the bag.
• All those former Stasi torturers not currently employed by the CIA should be put to work dealing with the people who program the music for oldies stations.
• Though never a Carpenters fan, I wasn't actually glad that Karen Carpenter was dead until put in a position to listen to "Merry Christmas Darling" every hour on the hour.
• Did you ever wonder if, when Paul McCartney formed Wings, he figured he wasn't so much taking a step down fame-wise as finally getting a decent backup band?
• Is it sad that Patrick Swayze was actually a better singer than he was an actor?  I never cared about this before.
• The day you're up to your armpits in grout, and also forgot your rifle, is the day the dogs will alert to some new strange thing every other minute.
• Freddy Mercury was a genius, without doubt. Brian May might have been the best guitarist in commercial rock, and Queen's harmonies were beyond compare. So why is it the only Queen song the oldies station seems aware of is "Another One Bites The Dust?"
• And BTW, if Mercury had known one day he'd be sharing a playlist with "Holly Jolly Christmas," he'd have chosen to die of AIDS or something instead. Oh, wait...Say!  He really was a genius!
• I think I may have figured out why 42 is the Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything.  But I forgot it while momentarily panicking over a (mistaken) belief that I didn't have quite enough grout.
• If I could go back in time I'd keep Buddy Holly and his band from getting on that plane, insisting that Hall & Oates needed the seats more.  The Big Bopper could stay aboard.
• Is it bad that the only Matrix characters I find interesting are Agent Smith and Cypher?
• This comes to mind because after the second hour, when my shoulders felt like they were going to fall right off my torso, I started chanting, "Why oh why didn't I take the blue pill?"