My friend's furnace broke down yesterday after her little electric heater for her feet broke about two weeks ago. I've been studying use of fiber optic thermocouples with a spectrograph output and freezing of chemistry in the choked portions of reentry simulators. Finally I have some conslusions to my study of transparent absorption of sunlight as heat. Macroscopically I conclude you can't beat Arabs by using numbers and interpolating results as analogs and you can't predict the future using pasteboards. Where does that leave the masses in the real world? Updating to high definition TV. We need to really go for optical heat exchangers. And engines? Yeah! those too! No more opaque heat measurements reported as numbers to the controller. And real insight into catalysts. Am I fading for the last time slowly or have I peaked? Is this just the low point of a cycle or am I just in shock from a long overstress. More and more my goals and expectations converge. I have to trust numbers for now and I really cannot. Simon has a way to look like an architect or a venture capitalist if morphed. His engineering days are in his past.