More Coffee? and the Math Involved

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

As I have mentioned in the last few entries, the wife and I were in Texas.  We drove as far as Springfield, MO yesterday and then the rest of the way home today.  Last night we went to see "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest."  Wow, what an awesome movie!  I can't wait to see the next one due out in 2007.

This morning we drove about a block and had breakfast.  We ordered our food and some coffee.  Now I am a two sugar man myself and the wife is more of a one sugar woman.  Since we are an hour ahead of Missouri, we were up and at the restaurant by 6:30 local time.  The restaurant was not very busy at that time so we received a lot of attention from our waitress.  This meant that our coffee mugs did not get even close to empty at any time during our breakfast.

This was actually a problem as I had to keep a running math problem in my head as to the "sugar-ness" of my coffee.  The problem went a little like this...

1. Cup is filled and put in 2 sugars.  Perfect sugar-ness.
2. Cup is 2/3 full and waitress fills to top, add 1 sugar, cup is now about 1/3 sugar pack too much
3. Cup is 2/5 full and waitress fills to close to the top, add 1 sugar since the 2/5 coffee in cup was slightly over-sugared
4. Ad Nausea

I thought about asking the waitress if I could borrow her pen.  I also tried drinking only 1/2 the cup or all of it if I saw her coming with a pot of coffee.  The whole thing reminded me of one of those 2 faucets, 1 drain math problems I had in school.  Though not the exact same kind of mathematical problem, you can see where I can make the comparison (assuming she was the faucet and I was the drain).

I kept the coffee sweet enough but not too sweet for the most part.  The wife actually had it a little harder as she had to keep track of the amount of creamer too, talk about hard math!  Jeesh!

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon