How do the two of these go together?  Why is there a picture of an Ohio State University Medical Center cup at the top of this page?  Good questions, all of these.

At work, in order to save money, I mainly drink instant tea.  Buying a large jar of Lipton granules and making 32oz. of tea at a time is a lot cheaper than daily trips to the soda machine, or even bringing in my own soda, but where does the numerology come into play with this?

If you have ever made instant tea, I am sure that you thought, in the beginning, that it tasted like total crap.  I was definitely in that mindset as well until I finally managed to perfect my recipe:

• 3 spoonfuls (just a plastic spoon) of instant tea
• 9 packets of artificial sweetener (Splenda or Altern)
• 32 ounces of cold water (preferably from the water cooler)

Ok, great, that is all well and good, but where do the numbers come in?  It is all about the number three, even with that pesky 32 thrown in there.

3 spoonfuls of tea, pretty self explanatory, 9 packets of sweetener put into the cup in three groups of three.  32 ounces of water, well 32 is 4 x 8, and 4 in binary is 100, which has three numbers.  8 is 2^3 which gives us yet another 3.  9 + 3 = 12 and 8 + 4 = 12.  Also, 3 x 2 = 6 (from the 32) and 6 x 2 = 12 (2 being the total number of digits in 32) or 6 / 2 = 3.  8 looks like a snowman, and as those of us in the northern hemisphere and temperate climates know, you are not going to start trying to build a snowman until December, the 12th month.  3 + 9 + 32 = 45, 4 + 5 = 9, and nine is 3^3.  The Star of David has 6 points, 6 = 3 x 2, which is 32, so now I think my tea might be a Jewish conspiracy.  Jacques de Molay was burned at the stake on 3/18/1314, 3 + 1 + 8 + 1 + 3 + 1 + 4 = 21, and 2 + 1 = 3, so now I am starting to feel as if Freemasonry might have something to do with this as well, or at the very least the Knights Templar.

Wait, where was I going with all this?