Saturday, August 30,2014: Actually writing this on Saturday morning at “my second place”, a Starbucks, while waiting to meet a friend. A Starbucks is normally an experience in itself as I drink coffee and observe the unending tapestry of customers coming in for coffee, tea or whatever and the amazement at the huge line of cars at the drive thru.
Somehow, I never have liked the drive-thru experience. I don’t like eating in cars and I haven’t found a coffee cup (other than McDonalds) that I can drink while I drive, so that limits my drive through experience. If I go to McDonalds, I normally also go to the restroom, so there you go!
Some years ago (actually 13 years, now that I think of it), Aliene and I took a course at the local community college and we would frequently go through the Starbucks drive thru and by the time we got to class, the coffee would be good to drink and would normally last the entire evening. The class was Accounting and I believe that is the last class (that is, a graded class) that I ever took.
Before that, I took a class in Technical Writing, which was an interesting course.
Just looked through this and corrected it. It had some really weird errors, which had to be caused by spell-check!
Sunday, August 31:
73 degrees this morning, several earthquakes yesterday, one a 3.2.
Perhaps a case of my subconscious mind (and conscious mind) becoming more aware of it, but I just opened up the New York Times web site and immediately noted the following stories:
-A story about how baby boomers (I am in that category) are suddenly noting they are the oldest in the room etc. and surrounded by younger people. Somehow, this wasn’t a surprise. Basically the story said “just deal with it”, which I agree with.
However, the article started with an observation by someone that it was “time to leave the company because he suddenly noticed he was the oldest in the room”. Rather a bizarre comment, and one that contributes to the age discrimination which is already so prevalent.
I do agree with the article I shouldn’t care about trying to act like I”m 20 (or 30 or 40) years younger then I am, because I probably do have a lot of different interests. I think that is what makes all the different ages so valuable, we all have different experiences and interests to contribute. I have absolutely no interest in some of the music or “wearing” something punched into my skin or tattoos and will not act like I do!
-The second article concerned the “rental economy” and how people are “renting” a lot of items people used to own.
Personally I would never use “airbud” and either rent out my house or rent a room from a stranger (I actually like hotels/motels), but I can see the advantage of renting items I may use only one time and never use again.
I currently am actually renting a second car when I need it and not buying a second car. That may change in the future, but right now it works fine and I am finding I don’t really need a second car that much. I can certainly see the advantage of the “ride sharing” or Urber type services.
Looking at what I have, I can see numerous items I could “rent” and not have to worry about storing them etc.
-The third article was on a “living simple” movement. While I wouldn’t want to go the the extreme on this (i.e., try to cut down to 100 items or live in a 400 square foot apartment or house), I can see a lot of advantages in adopting some aspects of “living simpler” and I can see the advantages of a 400 square foot house, depending on your situation.
I will also “write simply and short”. I have reached my limit for the day. I won’t burden anyone with the articles I have cited, but I have them in PDF format and will e-mail on request, Perhaps I will set up an area where I can post articles I find interesting (assuming it is legal). I could post them to Twitter or Facebook and I may well do that.
That’s it for now, Sunday, August 31, 2014.
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