I close my eyes when I'm trying to smell and to hear. Unless I'm listening to someone talk, then I have to watch his or her mouth. I'm not sure about the radio thing, I haven't had to try to find anything while driving in a while.

hm, anyone have experience in getting rental insurance? We're trying to figure out how much we need, and we are trying to decide between 25K and 50K.

I mean you don't sniff to hear better or squint to smell something (unless it's really nasty, in which case your eyes may be burning). S'odd.

I do it because hearing takes brain cycles, and recognising street name takes brain cycles. The less information my brain has to throw away, the more it can use the info it's looking for.

Lots of people do, but why?

Hee! As Jess and beathen said, it's one less thing to have to concentrate on when you're already concentrating on driving and something else.

I mean you don't sniff to hear better or squint to smell something (unless it's really nasty, in which case your eyes may be burning).

Ah! But some people do squint (or close their eyes) when listening or sniff (which in a really stretchy way can be said to be lessening your capacity to hear) to smell something.

When concentrating on one particular sense, it really does help to eliminate work that one or more of the other five ...er, uh, four senses are doing.

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Happy late Birthday Anne! Did you have a good time with your folks?

Very, but I am exhaustipated. Plus, I think I caught a cold or some such on the airplane. I was given freezer containers of ossobuco and home-made split pea soup to take home with me, so all is well with the world.

hm, anyone have experience in getting rental insurance? We're trying to figure out how much we need, and we are trying to decide between 25K and 50K.

I've got rental insurance through Geico; I can't remember if I got 25K or 50K but I do remember that the difference in the yearly premium was negligable. If you have things of great value, go for the bigger sum. Rental insurance is insanely inexpensive considering how much money they'll give you if all your stuff gets stolen--it's worth it to have enough coverage.

Oh, yum on the freezer containers! Glad to hear you had a good birthday, Anne.

I do it because hearing takes brain cycles, and recognising street name takes brain cycles

Once again, it all comes down to RAM. So few of us are packing enough memory chips. Darn Bill Gate and his "No one will ever need more than 64K of memory."

I think that's the right quote.

Most of the girls at my all girl school were well socially developed. Although I didn't date for forever, I had no problems integrating into the co-ed environment of university.

This was my experience as well...except I dated right away in college...not wisely but I don't think that's because I went to an all-girls school.

I think I caught a cold or some such on the airplane.

bleh. this almost always happens to me. but yay on the homemade soup! That should fix you right up.

hm, anyone have experience in getting rental insurance? We're trying to figure out how much we need, and we are trying to decide between 25K and 50K.

I got mine through State Farm. I think I went for 25K because I only have stuff accumulated for one person instead of two. Even with that, though, I only pay about $100/year for the coverage, so I concur with Jen that it's inexpensive.