Under-understanding

 You spend years making life safe and comfortable, and when you get there, it's not very exciting. That is one of the things about growing old: can't see so good, can't hear so good, life isn't so exciting, and there's something else but I forget what it was. We geezers have to look around for problems to solve, because that's what we are made for. 

We aren't made for heaven. If heaven is all singing hymns on a cloud, then heaven is just boring. If we've got problems to solve, that's better than heaven, because we won't be satisfied without problems to solve. Solving problems is the source of satisfaction. Bring on the problems. I'd rather be here than heaven.

I noticed a problem while putting my T-shirts back in the drawer a few weeks ago, Nine out of ten T-shirts came out of the dryer out-side-in. I wondered why. I speculated that there was something about tumbling for a couple of hours that would turn a T-shirt out-side-in. That would be sort of logical maybe, but I have to be convinced. Not sure I understand.

So I designed a controlled experiment; I would put the T-shirts in the wash out-side-out for one wash and out-side-in for another. Then I would know for sure whether it was washing and drying that produced the observed out-side-in bias. 

Quick answer, it wasn't. It turns out that when I take off a T-shirt, my habit is to turn it out-side-in without even noticing. Doing the experiment, I noticed. It was me, not the washing and drying. I couldn't find my cell phone or I would have a selfie video for evidence. You'll have to take my word for it.

I know! Unexpected, right? I thought maybe I understood, but I didn't. I'm going to write this up for Scientific American. Should be a No Bull Prize coming.