Starting with Max/MSP

While I wait for the guy to come and read the numbers off of my water and heater counters (as usual, they don't make an appointment for a specific time so I may be waiting for three hours) I thought I would start to read the Max/MSP documentation. RTFM as they say is always good advice. Already I've discovered that spatial orientation of Max objects determines the order in which they are processed. Interesting...