Why is it that a simple shower often opens the floodgates for mental acuity?

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been in the shower and – out of nowhere – a solution to an algorithm I’ve been working on pops in.

Weird.

This moring was the same – last night I had tried to think of how a TV series (Monk) had ended it’s season; I knew there was some twist, it wasn’t a normal show.

But I couldn’t grasp it.

In the shower – after not thinking about it for approximately 12 hours – bing! – I remembered the ending (he flies to NYC to track down his wife’s killer).

Why did it pop in like that? This happens all the time. Maybe I should set up an office in there…