and my memory
February 1, 2011 (Tuesday)
I had fish for lunch yesterday. It was Tilapia. I bought it at the grocery store and Dwight prepared it. Tilapia tastes good and is on the menu in many restaurants, readily available in stores, and a very popular item at many meals these days. Where have I been all my life? I don’t recall ever hearing the word, “Tilapia,” before recent years. Was I just not listening or not paying attention?
I suppose I was deaf and blind because Tilapia has been around for a long, long time. It has been an important source of protein for thousands of years. The Ancient Egyptians cultivated Tilapia in ponds along the Nile. The fish even has its very own hieroglyph.
It is found in the wild on every continent except Antarctica and is also farmed. In order to make Tilapia fish more suitable for farming and more attractive on the food market, many different hybrids and strains have been developed by Tilapia breeders.
I’m discovering so many new words and also things (like Tilapia) new to me, I’m beginning to wonder if perhaps these are things I once knew but simply forgot. I hope that’s not the case.
As computer programs have grown in size, we have found it necessary to buy more memory for them. I can go to the store and buy memory for my computer. Do you suppose that someday I may be able to go to a back room in that store and get some memory for myself? I can see it now. I approach the sales counter and the clerk says, “What would you like to remember today?” “Then I pays my money and I takes my choice.” Think of it. When the “memory stores” are fully functioning, we will be able to purchase the memories we always wanted to have. Then we can bore everyone by telling exciting stories about experiences we never had. Come to think of it, I may be doing that already.