Blog Number 228

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

Well I am in the middle of another one of "those" meetings but I wanted to divert my attention for a moment to share with you a (not so) new pet peeve of mine.  This has to do with my wife, yawning and talking.

Since we have no internet or cable TV at home, this has allowed (or perhaps forced) my wife and I to talk more.  We discuss all kinds of things from a newspaper article to a book that one of us is reading.  Our discussions have gone up a notch for sure since we are not talking about the latest episode of a TV show or a you tube video.  One (bad) habit the that wife has is not pausing her speech during a yawn.  She just keeps on trucking through her sentence and makes a valiant effort to enunciate during the yawn but try as I might, I cannot decipher her words.  There are times that I can fill in the blanks based on the words immediately before or after the yawn but for the most part the yawn lasts too long and the missing data is too large for me to make an accurate guess.

Perhaps I do not yawn as much as most people but I generally pause during the yawn.  Maybe I cannot multitask (yawning and talking at the same time) and need to focus all my mental capacities to completing the yawn.  The only time I can remember yawning during talking is when I am reading a book to the kids.  I yawn every 2 or 3 pages for some reason and it is a little frustrating for me but trying to speed up the yawn does not seem to help anything and probably causes more frequent yawns.  But I do pause for the yawn and do not try to muddle through the book (plus I am reading C. S. Lewis and most of his words are important and skipping even a sentence might cause problems).  The wife however (despite my calling attention to this annoying habit each time) still continues on with her talking.  She always has to repeat her words.  To me that would be a deterrent.  To her it is not.

Anyway, I have to pay attention to this meeting now as I know I heard my name at least once.  Until (y a w n) next (y a w n) time...

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon