41 degrees this morning (felt like 32 degrees), Wind 24 mph and higher! Walked (shortened) walk of 35:13 minutes.
Happy Birthday to Barbara, my youngest little sister! Wishing her a Happy Birthday and a wonderful year!
Woke up this morning at my “normal” walking time, determined to walk no matter what! I did have a coughing spell during the night, but am feeling better.
Felt good to walk again. Listening to a book on the development of philosophy. Interesting enough, although I do wish there was way I could see how some of the names are spelled.
Thinking the other day, “happiness” is somewhat relative. Probably the “happiest” I have seen people as just pure looking forward to something enjoyable are people coming into Braum’s (a regional chain of stores specializing in ice cream and they also recently (well, within the past seven years) started a “Fresh Market” side.
Somehow, Braums is simply the best. Food (even hamburgers and milk) simply taste better. They don’t go any further than eight hours from their main facility (they grow all their own cows etc.) to insure that the food is fresh.
Aliene and I used to always stop at the Braums at Exit 13 (Alma) in Arkansas, which is the last Braums east on the way to Memphis! Aliene (at the time before she couldn’t eat them) would order a Banana Split and I would order a “thick” strawberry shake!
Recently, my granddaughter and I were out and stopped at Braums. She ordered a strawberry shake and looked at me and kind of smiled, and I said the liking of Strawberry Shakes must be in our genes!
Anyway, on an afternoon when people are coming into Braums for simply an ice cream treat and not a meal (and probably true for other similar places), they have this contagious happy anticipatory look that I don’t see that much elsewhere!
This is true regardless of age etc., so I think it is somewhat of a universal trait! I see it in children, I see in in retired couples out for an afternoon treat, it is just happiness at the break in the day and the chance for a treat!
Got a new tv last night, and I had to go on the internet to “chat” with the manufacturer (and watch a video) just to see how to get it out of the box! It was a wonderful idea and much simpler.
A few instructions on the outside would have been nice!
Technology is great, it would help if they didn’t assume they know what you want. One major irritation is the way things are changed without bothering to inform you.
Slowly moving into the house. I need to finish organizing my office, it just is that I want to make it as efficient as possible.
I know that what I do now I probably will not change later (the concept that “what is, is” tends to induce resistance to change), so I am trying to decide exactly where I want everything now because I probably won’t change it later!
2016 will soon be into April. I really have a hard time grasping how time is going so fast. While I”m not retired and work a full time job, my current job takes a lot less of my spare time than my previous career.
Like many retired people, I think “how in the world did I have time to do anything”when I was working my previous jobs as City Manager!
That’s it for now, Thursday, March 24, 2016.
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