Filtration...

.... in a sweeping charge of Shock and Awe yesterday to impress the Missus, I actually did something obliquely useful around the house.... I screwed up the courage, set my shoulders back, and changed the refrigerator's water filter... you guys would have been so proud of me... it was awesome....

... no small task, actually, as it is set deep back in a remote corner of the fridge - just beside the bottle of Goldschlager...... but I persevered and won that day... I owe it all to my years of military training and a bloodline chocked with ancient Pioneers.... It's all about The Spirit, you see....

... anyway, as I was standing there reading the box that the filter came in, I was amazed to find a truly excellent word.... Turbidity....

... you know, turbidity is a word that just isn't used in conversation enough... in fact, I do believe that - apart from yesterday - I have only heard it once.... And even then it wasn't actually ˜turbidity'... but ˜turbid'....

... so I was standing there enjoying the feel of how the word turbidity just rolls off one's tongue when I remembered my Robert Service.... particularly a line from "The Law of The Yukon"....

... "and it swept like a turbid torrent" ....

.... marvelous, no?....

... hey, language, people.... use it, or lose it... now go ahead and say it with me.... turbid... tuuuuurbid... TURbid..... goodness, how absolutely wonderful....