29 March 2007 - 4:23 pm

As I dropped my friend Carol off, after spending what I had expected to be a few hours that turned into the entire afternoon and evening playing with computers and their incompatability of technologies when a few years have elapsed, I repeated to myself what she had ordered at the coffee shop.

"Thai-Chea."

"Tai-Chi."
No, that wasn't right. It sounded almost right, but not quite.

"Ty-Chee."
Wait, there was something really wrong with what I was saying and what I meant.

"Chai Tea!" I announced triumphantly inside my car.

Isn't that weird? Chai Tea and Tai-Chi, very close sounding and not at all the same.