Assorted Thoughts 50: I Had A Bit Of An Idea Backlog Edition

• I will all too regularly forget to apply sunscreen, which is a problem when doing research on boats in Florida.  When that happens, I just treat my charred skin as a burnt offering to the Sun Gods, hoping to earn their favor in the shape of not getting melanoma.  If that's not how this works, it should be.  Gods love burnt offerings, right?
• The proper number of clips and straps on your dive gear is equal to N + 1, where N is the number currently present.
• Manatees are somewhat cute and beloved by millions. They are also slow, stupid, and regularly hit by boats. I'm sure there's a life lesson there, even if I'm not sure what it is.
• Is an excess of mangroves a call for manscaping?
• When traveling, I carry all my hygiene equipment (shaving supplies, hairbrush, toothbrush, etc.) in a Magic: The Gathering bag I got at a gaming shop.  The irony amuses me.
• There is such a thing as being too grounded in reality.  I don't even get superpowers in my dreams.  I have to pretend that I have superpowers in my dreams.  Kind of sucks.
• I also just had a dream where I was moving back into the dorms at my undergraduate school, only to get really confused halfway through when I remembered I graduated already and should be at a school on the other side of the country.
• Apparently I am on the lazy diet.  We currently don't have any easily-prepared food in the house, so I'd rather skip breakfast and go straight in to the lab than spend a few minutes cooking an egg and not being hungry.
• Florida is helping me answer the age-old question of "How much sweat could a Ben sweat sweat if a sweat sweat sweat sweat sweat?"
• Unfortunately, the answer appears to be "All of it."