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Complex Numbers #972528 added January 3, 2020 at 1:32am
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Beer for Breakfast
PROMPT January 3rd
Make a list of 20 random things (nouns). Try as hard as you can to make each item on your list as unrelated to the other items as possible. If your muse moves you, you’re welcome to add whatever commentary you like. 
psychology
volume
county
appearance
permission
initiative
combination
estate
reception
drama
philosophy
length
procedure
attention
honey
debt
presentation
platform
song
population
I cheated. I literally selected the nouns at random  rather than coming up with them out of my head, which, let's be real here, wouldn't have been random.
It's just part of my natural psychology to be drawn to random numbers. More than anything else, the sheer volume of dice rolls is what attracted me to playing D&D, even from 'way back when I was living out in the back end of a rural county with few people around. When I'm not doing this blogging challenge, randomness makes an appearance through my selection from a list of articles I found interesting in some way.
Once I decide to do something at random, I rarely give myself permission to stray from the results. If I wanted to do something on my own initiative, I wouldn't have randomized the situation. For example, yesterday I somehow found myself at a brewery, staring at a tap list of 22 different beers from which I could select a combination of four for a tasting flight. Well... I could have bought more than one tasting flight, but doing so could negatively affect my estate. So the selection process can be dicey (pun intended, of course) - as much as I like beer, I give some styles a better reception than others.
Without going into too much drama, when it comes to beer, in general, I'm a contrarian - what I like, such as Belgian styles, few others do; what I don't like - sours for example - seem to be popular. I'm comfortable with this philosophy, though, and I'll go to any length to defend my own point of view. Thing is, I'll try almost anything, and when faced with a limit of four out of 22 possible beers, I have a certain procedure for these situations: roll the virtual dice, or in this case, use an app on my phone that is specifically for generating x numbers out of y possibilities, with or without attention paid to whether or not repeated numbers are valid (in this case, not).
I've been pleasantly surprised by this method; I've found beers tasting of lemon, of honey, of blackberry; but mostly they taste like beer - delicious, refreshing beer. I don't do it too often because I'd end up going into debt, but I do enjoy the presentation of a flight of different-colored beers all in a row or a ring on a platform specifically designed to highlight their variation and their luster. The right combination of beers - chosen carefully, or selected at random as I described - is as gorgeous as a song, even if the vast majority of the population would never agree with me.
Well, there. I did it. 20 truly random words, all shoehorned into a praise of beer. I did end up getting more than one flight, and then a couple of pints of different brews, and then a tasting of the style I specifically went to the brewery for. I should have mentioned that this is an exceptionally good brewery.
Then I Ubered home and passed out. Yes, I'm still drunk, but I did this entry anyway.
For anyone who doesn't know what I mean by a "flight" of beer, here's a representative picture from the internet.
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