“All work and no play…”
“…is a day that ends in ‘y’?”
Thirty-three days and counting, sooner would be better, much sooner would be much better.
Category Archives: Deep Thoughts
No Context For You – April 16th
Yep, that’s pretty much the way I’m seeing the world these days. Not sure which way is up most of the time. Things that used to take me 30 seconds to put my hands on now take 30 minutes, assuming I can find them at all.
This might be a definition of “winning” that has so far evaded my ken.
Filed under Deep Thoughts, Photography
That Feeling When – April 15th
That feeling when you hurt in places you didn’t know you had places after four days of intense physical exertion in a big push to get stuff moved out of the house prior to escrow closing, either to storage or to the trash or to someplace where it can be donated, and everything is hurt and bruised and you just want to hold very still but the gods have a wicked sense of humor so all of that dust you’ve been sucking into your lungs throughout this ordeal now has you sneezing and when you sneeze you involuntarily clench every muscle in your body and every muscle in your body screams out in agony and then you have to sneeze again and you’ve become something like a badly designed toy that does nothing but hurt itself and it would be really funny if it were happening to someone else but it’s not and excuse me I have to go start sneezing again…
Ouch!
OUCH!!
OUCH!!! DAMN IT!!!
Filed under Deep Thoughts, Music, Paul
No Context For You – April 10th
I kept my promise from last night. I worked very hard tonight. I paid my property taxes today. I kept my mouth shut when I needed to and earned a cookie.
I didn’t need bail money.
I’m not in ICU.
I’ll take that as a win.
Tomorrow’s another day.
Filed under Deep Thoughts, Paul
This Is Not A Drill
People, pay attention, this is not a freakin’ drill!
Results are in for last night’s local election. Today’s results show that 24,853 citizens bothered to go vote – out of 272,717 registered voters. That’s 9.11%. Not even double digits.
Yet we still did better than the special election a couple districts over in the 39th, where a similar special election drew only 6.45% of the voters.
Maybe we deserve the shit we’re getting out of Washington. Maybe we don’t deserve democracy. Maybe we’re just too freakin’ lazy and stupid.
So let’s talk about something upbeat instead, okay?
When we humans destroy the planet’s ecosystem to the point where we can no longer sustain all of the infrastructure and agriculture and transportation necessary to actually feed everyone and civilization collapses leaving only scattered pockets of post-apocalypse humans just waiting for their turn to die a miserable, horrible death, which species do you think will evolve to take over from us? Bonus question – will they be smart enough to see what we did and avoid that fate?
Not helping, huh?
Let me know when someone can show evidence that I’m wrong.
Filed under Deep Thoughts, Paul
That Feeling When – March 27th
That feeling when you realize that the long nights and lack of sleep up to this point where just practice and now it’s about to get REALLY hard – but at least you’ve found a couple of new Sirius XM channels that you like and you got a neat pair of bluetooth headphones for your birthday, so at least you’ll have tunes.
Filed under Deep Thoughts, Music, Paul
No Context For You – March 26th
It doesn’t matter how detailed the map – if you don’t know where you are and you don’t know where you’re going, you’re still lost.
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That Feeling When – March 23rd
That feeling when that channel on Sirius XM that you were really starting to like suddenly isn’t there and you think it might just be that you need to turn the app on and off again or maybe jiggle the cable to the internet to bring it back but nothing’s working until you remember that you have the internet so you google it and find out that SXM just made it go away and you try a couple of the channels that are supposedly “close” to the same sort of music and they’re really, REALLY not so you go back to listening to a country channel for a while but somehow it’s become so pop and Brittany Spears-like that you want to stuff your ears with rabid man-eating eels while knowing that you’ll be scarred for life after listening to that crap so in the end you’re back listening to classical because if it’s good enough to survive three or four hundred years it must have something going for it, right?
Filed under Deep Thoughts, Music, Paul
Cloudy Days
If you have a clear Western horizon with minimal clouds over the next few days, take a look just a few minutes to a half hour or 45 minutes after sunset. You’ll see the crescent moon, a little bigger and a little higher every night. You’ll see Venus, which will be REALLY BRIGHT. And if you’re lucky (not too lucky, it’s not THAT hard), to the upper right of Venus a ways you’ll see a much dimmer object – that’s Mercury.
We won’t be seeing that in Los Angeles. This was last night:
And this was tonight:
There’s a major storm moving in for the next several days, so maybe Thursday? Friday?
That’s the message from the Universe tonight. It doesn’t care what you wanted or were wishing for or were hoping for. It doesn’t care if any given time period was going to have something happening that you wanted to observe or participate in or enjoy. The Universe will cloud out your planetary conjunction or eclipse or rocket launch or baseball game or marathon or parade or plane flight or vacation and be totally oblivious and uncaring.
It us, the little animated meat sacks on this dust most in the cosmos who put meaning on it. We are the context.
Logically, or perhaps “theologically,” the Serenity Prayer has it correct in that there are three things we should ask for – serenity to accept things that can’t be changed, courage or strength to change the things that can, and wisdom to know which is which.
It’s one cloudy day when I start quoting prayers. As for this particular prayer, today I’m apparently zero for three.
There’s always tomorrow, even if it’s cloudy.
Filed under Deep Thoughts, Photography, Religion, Weather
Let’s Dance
There’s a tequila ad out there that I’ve seen but not paid much attention to until tonight.
Remote country road bar, end of the world arriving. Armageddon. Fire falling from the skies, tornadoes, most everyone running around panicking.
Except for our protagonists, apparently eyeing each other and figuring that there’s (literally) no time like the present. So while everyone else runs around looking for a way to escape the inescapable and to hide from that which can not be hidden from, they decide to have a shot of tequila and dance while the world end.
I like it.
The world truly doesn’t care. In the big picture, we’re a glorified fungus on a dust mote around an average star. Probably a statistical improbability just waiting for extinction.
So when the moment comes, if the universe doesn’t care, then you have to. If you’re going to go, go dancing.
Except that I don’t know what brand of tequila, so from a strictly Madison Avenue standpoint, the ad’s a failure. But maybe next time I see it I’ll pay attention and remember, so it might not be a total failure. Yet.
Dance.
Filed under Deep Thoughts, Paul
We Love The Stars Too Fondly 