A few weeks back, as a next step to my madness, I decided that memorizing the periodic table would be a worthwhile enterprise. I do not think I ever went beyond 25 elements in school.

As of this morning, I can finally narrate the entire periodic table of 118 elements. Forwards and backwards, for good measure!

Now, for a couple of interesting questions, try this:

1. “Q” is a letter that no element has as a starting letter. Actually, it is not there anywhere in the spelling of any element. There is another such letter. What is it?

2. What is the most common starting letter for the elements?

3. This is for my US friends. How many elements can you name whose symbol is the same as some state in the United States?

Sharmila and Nikita traveled to India by KLM. Which meant I got to add to my collection of KLM houses. I had even given them the list of house numbers that I have, so they will not pick up a duplicate. 🙂

They publish one new replica of some famous houses/buildings in Netherlands every year – I believe on their annual anniversary day of existence. I have long ways to go!!

Sharmila and Nikita are back from India. Looks like, together with my mother-in-law, they dug up my late father-in-law’s stuff and got one of his prized possessions – a Yashica-D camera. He was an avid photographer back then. This is from the late 50s – nearly three-quarters of a century old! I think it was one of the first twin-lens reflex cameras.

It has now been added to my small but growing collection of things that most folks today would not recognize, nor know how to operate!

This is right next to your office building in Dunwoody