Bloggy Blogs

I've been perusing other blogs lately, proving all the more that my time is precious. I've noticed a lot more randomness, sometimes a good deal of meaningfulness, but for the most part just disjointed thoughts pieced together like a patchwork quilt of incompatible parts.

Sometimes, I enjoy the well written, meaty content full of meaningfullness and 'ah ha!'.

Sometimes, all I need is that seemingly random line from that spot in someone's brain that lies between subconscious and conscious.

Which reminds me, is the elephant really the only land mammal unable to as much as hop?

Shades of Pooh Bear

When asked a question recently a new co-worker replied, "I don't know why I'm thinking... it's not even something that's in my head."

Hypnotised by technology

I think I may have just experienced hypnosis by technology while sitting in a training session where new technology (new to me at least) was being taught to me. Suddenly, my eyes began to droop, time slowed to a crawl and I may have even began talking like a chicken.

Just thought you'd like to know.

That little tiny thing...

As I was poking around blogger yesterday, I read up a bit on the ATOM feature of blogs, and it turns out I have one. It'll allow you to read my blog along with others through a 'site feed'.

The link you'll want to cut and paste into your ATOM feeder is: http://home.teleport.com/~graphex/existimationis/atom.xml

You can read more about this feature yourself here.

Reality

I imagine that nothing can be more frustrating than when reality doesn't match expectations. At least that's true for me. The resulting stress, anger, sadness, and overall feeling of despiration mix together to make for less than pleasant result.

Not that reality always matches expectations - in fact, it probably seldom does. Life is, afterall, not a predicatable thing - at least is shouldn't be. How boring would that be? But when what shows up in life is so far from what you thought would happen, we're talking about the other end of the spectrum.

Sure, life is a constant barrage of what we didn't plan or what we don't have control of - but what I'm talking about is those events that we 'seemingly' have total control over and put much effort into planning - and then, everything falls on its face.

That happened to me yesterday. It's happened before, and will probably happen again - and until I learn to handle it better, I'll continue to feel like I do today.

If I wanted to be around anyone, I'd through myself a pitty party.

Enter in; prayer, perspective, endurance, self examination, attitued adjustment, reality check.

Just say no to crack

Obviously, I just don't get it. Teenage boys in pants so loose and hung so low that they don't qualify as pants. Teenage girls in pants so tight and so low that they don't qualify as pants either. I just don't get it. Heaven forbid either group should sit down. I just don't want to see it.

One trip to the mall is enough for me to want to cover my daughter's eyes lest she get some idea that teenage fashion should dictate toddler fashion - or that she get some twisted lesson on anatomy.

Call me old fashioned, call me over protective, call me a fuddy-duddy. I'll happily accept those labels so long as I not have to divert my eyes while snacking on mall food.