I never cooked spaghetti before, since I don’t eat spaghetti at home.  Somehow I suddenly want to eat spaghett, so I decide to give it a try.  I always think cooking spaghetti is easy and I am right.  My first attempt of making spaghetti is a success.  Spaghetti fits my A+B+C combo cooking philosophy.  Item A can be spaghetti or any pasta.  Boil a big pot of water, throw the spaghetti into the pot then wait until the spaghetti is soften.  Item B is the spaghetti sauce.  I just any ready made spaghetti sauce from the supermarket.  I wonder how the taste is difference in those 50+ selections.  Item C is the meat.  I picked ground turkey, I wanted use ground beef but Pat said turkey is more healthy.  I also add some shitaki mushroom slices.   Cook the meat first, then add the sauce and mushroom when the meat is cooked.  When every ingredient is heated, mix the spaghetti with the sauce and the dish is done!

Tonight two boys from Pat’s choir join us for dinner.  Both of them are university students.   To my surprise I got a very intellectual conversation from one of the guy.  Rarely I can find anyone who know enough theology, religion or philosophy knowledge to engage in a deep conversation.  He is a psychology major, so his point of view is quite different from my engineers point of view.  Our chat shed me new lights on how to see many things.

I finally have a clear understanding of the difference between innocent and ignorance.  Many people use these two words interchangeably, but they have different meaning.  Using book as an analogy.  Being innocent means you don’t know there exists such a book.  Being ignorance is you know the title of a book, but knows nothing about the content.

I learn the minimum requirement for Catholic mass is 2 people, the priest plus an audience.  The priest by myself cannot have a mass in law’s definition.  Then I pose the question what about a priest with a split personality, does it count as one person or 2 people.

We talked about what-if scenario, what if African conquer Europe in early centuries.  This leads to whether history has determine course of action or history is accidental.  I am defending our life will be pretty much the same using Hegel and he disagree.  Well, the fact that he knows the name of Hegel is quite impressive.

In addition, he explain some psychology to me.  One school of thoughts in psychology thinks how the human mind works are just reinforcements.  However main stream psychology reject this idea because the mind clearly able to change states, say from happy to sad, without any sensory inputs.  I try to defend the reinforcement theory using analogy from CPU design.  In semiconductor, alpha particulars can toggle the state of the electrons which causing bit error in the memory.  How about alpha particulars is the reason for human mind changing states without any reason.  The alpha particular excite an electron in a neuron, which cause a chain reaction eventually turn you from happy to sad.

I really enjoy tonight’s conversation.  However, Pat and the other boy said this involve too much thinking, and they got a headache just from listening to our talks.

I bought Pat a gym pass for her birthday present, so she can look better for our wedding.  The gym give me a few free day passes, so I tag along with Pat.  I need some exercise myself and I can give her moral support to go working out.

I never go to a gym before.  I always found working out boring.  You are just repeating the same action again and again in front of a mirror like an idiot.  I still think working out is boring.  However, I notice my arms do not have enough strength since I begin shooting.  I always know my lack of endurance is a road block to improve my skiing skills.  So the fact is I need exercise stay fit and train my muscle.  Going to gym is probably the easiest and quickest way to achieve my goal.

I like using the elliptical machine most.  It is kinda a combination of the treadmill and stepping machine.  The motion is kind a combination of cycling and running.  I have to constantly shift the body weight from one leg to another leg.  It is a very good cardio exercise, I sweat a lot and I think it also strength my leg muscles.  Usually I work on this machine for 30 minutes.  The first 10 minutes is not too bad, since I am not tried.  The next 15 minutes is the toughest, I really have to struggle to keep up.  Somehow the last 5 minutes is the easiest, my body starting to get used to the pain and sours from the muscles.  I feel like I can keep running forever without feeling tried.  However once I stop running, the pain and sours kicks in and my legs really hurt.