The other day I had remarked to an old gal (the proprietor) of a local strip mall toy store that I walked into on a whim that "really this is where it all start

The other day I had remarked to an old gal (the proprietor) of a local strip mall toy store that I walked into on a whim that "really this is where it all started". Round hole, square block diagonally (almost anyway); oh that can's label so perfectly lines up with the tiling of this table when it's rolled across it; oh that soap dispenser pump has the -same threading- as this vodka bottle and screws on just easy...and so on. It would turn out that that old gal wrote a bunch of code for some local military contractors waaay back when and had quite the reputation for connecting the unlikeliest of systems together. The corporate types would naysay whether a thing could be done, and she'd have it back on their desk within 3 hours. And now she runs a toy store, and loves it!!! Feeling burned out myself, I took from that conversation some modicum of hope that looking at problems as //play// is what I need personally-- and prospects look better for it! Happy to hear that Feynman would agree.