Contrare....

Ever try to learnt just one thing and actually end up learnting a couple things?

I noticed that I was a bit parched, as the inside of my nose felt dry like a trisket - but I was also a little bit tired and so I started to wonder if I drank a glass of water (to re-hydrate) and then some coffee (to re-energize) would they not just mix in my stomach, and basically amount to just a really watered down cup of coffee in the end? and since I heard that coffee would actually dehydrate me - would I subsequently gain some energy, but also lose some hydration? thus solving really only one problem? so then I googled "coffee dehydrates?" and I learnt that in fact, according to the "International Food Information Council" or http://www.ific.org/ that "... caffeine is no more a diuretic than water" and I thought ha! coffee doesn't dehydrate me but I wasn't really sure what "diuretic" meant (putting the coffee before the cup as they say, or horse, can't recall) anyway this sent me to dictionary.com in search of "diuretic" and found it meant "...increasing the volume of the urine excreted, as by a medicinal substance" (similar to American beer in this regard no?) anyway so then I thought I have to put this on the blog but I wanted to first come up with another word for "parched" so since I was already on dictionary.com I clicked on the link to thesaurus.com and looked for the word "parched" and up popped this new "Visual "Thinkmap" Thesaurus" which was just really cool, except for it turns out there really aren't any other cool words similar to "Parched" but the "Thinkmap" program is pretty cool ......