And it's a whole mess less than I need to know with this new-fangled computer that I now have to work with. I hadn't mastered the 11 year old one it replaces, and learning even some of it's potential will effectively double the length of my to-do list.
Trouble is, I have this unfortunate concept of myself as being challenged technically. And what do my sons install on my car for Christmas? A remote starter! (Another "owner's manual".) Now I have to deal with two remotes on my key-chain, remember to start it BEFORE I put my coat on to go somewhere, and quiet my conservative conscience that says "it's wasting gas, and if you always turn right and uphill from home, it's all warmed up nicely in 3.79 minutes." I dearly love the dudes for gifting me thus, but it's one more manual to read and understand.
The computer doesn't come with much of a manual, and come to think of it, I tossed it in the big packing box which is now hanging out in the shed with my tires. Better retrieve it so it can taunt me from my reading pile.
Ran across some old photos of Maui recently, and sighed.....
08 January 2010
07 January 2010
a story (Insight and Perspicacity)
A mom and a teenager were supposed to be working on communication issues. "What did you think of the new counsellor?" the mom said to the teenager. She thought the teenager would say that the counsellor closed his eyes and tilted his head in an ususual way while he talked. Teenagers are sometimes ruthless about noticing entertaining things about adults, for example owl or reptile like behavior. The mom could remember sitting in high school and watching tiny globs of unusually opaque spit stretch and retract at the corners of a teacher's mouth as the teacher talked about calculus, and watching the underarms of another teacher jiggle as that one wrote on a chalkboard.
"He seemed nice," the teenager said.
"Oh good," the mom said.
Even though they were supposed to be working on communication issues, she decided not to say "It doesn't bother you that he looks like Edward Scissorhands, then?"
"He seemed nice," the teenager said.
"Oh good," the mom said.
Even though they were supposed to be working on communication issues, she decided not to say "It doesn't bother you that he looks like Edward Scissorhands, then?"
05 January 2010
fresh carhartts.
apparently one shouldn't wash carhartts that fit before they stretch. this is new intelligence for me; since i don't really ever wash my carhartts, i guess i hadn't run into this issue before. i spent the whole day yesterday thinking i had to run to the restroom for one reason or another. just so you know.
second on the agenda: "getting sicker". i've learned from a couple different text conversations that i have not made clear the meaning of one of my favourite phrases. if one wishes to "get sicker", he or she must perform righteous acts of awesomeness. this entails much courage and "ballhood". insofaras one wishes to be seen as "sicker", one must undertake all efforts and abilities in the spirit of "getting sicker". a few "jiggy fresh" examples: riding a snowboard in the rain in jeans; wearing a one piece fleece camoflauge suit while skiing in 35 degree snow; riding a walmart comfort bike on STP; commuting in a tie on a murray cruiser from '91; being in one's 70s and wearing skinny jeans and them "tall boots" (known in other circles as "&^%$ me boots"); wearing fingerless gloves in a "punk" "motifway" to write in one's "blogs" at the broadview branch of the seattle library. that last is obviously specific to time and place, as halloween may render this less "sick" than in early january. anyway, you get my "drift".
third, i just ordered some sidi "logo MTB" shoes. this is important cos they are shiny black with a righteous and adequately-for-me sized "sidi" logo in bright white. should match well with my $2.99 half-off tuesday special "pink tag" goodwill "gap khakis" and my free "beecher's handmade 'chesse'" t-shirt, size "just a bit too tight and short but it's brown and the sleeves are the right length so i wear it anyway". speakin of "gettin sicker".
fourth: today is my first full day off in 28 days. did i mention just how awesome i am? cos i could give a seminar.
fifth: one of the dudes on either side of me has some wicked BO. time to head for the hills.
peace.
second on the agenda: "getting sicker". i've learned from a couple different text conversations that i have not made clear the meaning of one of my favourite phrases. if one wishes to "get sicker", he or she must perform righteous acts of awesomeness. this entails much courage and "ballhood". insofaras one wishes to be seen as "sicker", one must undertake all efforts and abilities in the spirit of "getting sicker". a few "jiggy fresh" examples: riding a snowboard in the rain in jeans; wearing a one piece fleece camoflauge suit while skiing in 35 degree snow; riding a walmart comfort bike on STP; commuting in a tie on a murray cruiser from '91; being in one's 70s and wearing skinny jeans and them "tall boots" (known in other circles as "&^%$ me boots"); wearing fingerless gloves in a "punk" "motifway" to write in one's "blogs" at the broadview branch of the seattle library. that last is obviously specific to time and place, as halloween may render this less "sick" than in early january. anyway, you get my "drift".
third, i just ordered some sidi "logo MTB" shoes. this is important cos they are shiny black with a righteous and adequately-for-me sized "sidi" logo in bright white. should match well with my $2.99 half-off tuesday special "pink tag" goodwill "gap khakis" and my free "beecher's handmade 'chesse'" t-shirt, size "just a bit too tight and short but it's brown and the sleeves are the right length so i wear it anyway". speakin of "gettin sicker".
fourth: today is my first full day off in 28 days. did i mention just how awesome i am? cos i could give a seminar.
fifth: one of the dudes on either side of me has some wicked BO. time to head for the hills.
peace.
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