Roundup

 Midlife crisis? 

I've been the same person since I was five. 

I don't know who I was before then. 

The toddler years were a struggle. 

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The world is a funny place,

if you acquire a certain taste

an admiration

for brutal absurdity

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I remember the first time I heard the words "you think you're funny, don't you? " and I didn't. It was a complete misunderstanding. I've been running on that annoying premise ever since.

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My vet once told me to give my dog an antihistamine in a small dose , because the dog was freaking out over fireworks in the area. All the other dogs were telling my dog that she can't take human medicine.

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I believe Twitter considers me subpar. I would like to be on record as not agreeing with Twitter.

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Name a successful tv show that had a bad theme song? Most of them are crap shows...so it seems the common denominator of successful TV is recognizable noise, followed by recognizable characters, plots, bad jokes, and endings. Noises + no surprises= success

Not reinventing the wheel. Formula is in politics and news as well.

And algorithms...

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The Wham video for wake me up before you go go, but all the shirts say "Everything Hurts and I am dying". I'm in a mood today. Actually quite cheerful.

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Dance like your toaster is always watching you

The other day I was writing, and lost my train of thought, so I went to my Facebook to see if the advertisements would get me back on track. Works every time.

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If I die today, is this the tweet I want to be remembered by?

Do I even care if a tweet remembers me?

(inner voice) How can you feel that way? They are your little thought babies.

While I am on the subject of death...an observation. We all die quick. We may be in pain a long time, or a short time, but we are alive, and then we aren't. Example: Falls don't kill you. Landings do. Unless you had a heart attack while falling.

Technically, we all die from a lack of oxygen intake. I think. I am no scientist.

Lots of people with perfectly good reasons to loose their shit, and they are holding it together nicely. Not sure what that means. It says a lot about something.

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Apparently, it is hard for most people in my current realm of existence to converse with me. It took years, but hard work pays off.

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When did the heartfelt apology die, or was it always just a romantic notion taught to kids who were raised a certain way, but goes the way of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairies when one experiences the cold blooded ruthlessness of adulthood?

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Bond villains do not have to eat their words

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Social Engineers AKA Bond villains

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All the truth is in the fiction

Shortening a lyric

There ain't no good guy

There ain't no good

Ain't  no .......

There ain't.

           No.

No no no.

   ___  There.

Formula.

 It is not about getting it right. All the good things involve getting the right thing wrong.

I mean...getting the wrong thing right

I mean.....you know what I mean.

The best laid plans can be wrong, but the right mistake at the right time...can work.

Sometimes, you can do the right combination of things wrong, and it comes up perfection. 

yeah. 

That is what I meant. 

Heck...In the real world, you can add everything up, and it comes up perfect, only to find out you were wrong. 

That means you added up the wrong things. But you think you did it right...

Lots of bad math out there.

In the mix...

 Have you ever accomplished something on your own? 

Just reached down deep inside yourself

and manifested and achieved

a dream come true? 

You should get you some of that.

Win or lose ,it is the best thing that can happen. 

The biggest difference in people on this planet

is the difference between wages

and those who dream with their eyes open

I'm not talking about money.  Or success, whatever that means.

Or even getting what you want. 

I think it means, doing something you want to do. 

Not financially making it, but trying the best you can

and admitting who is better at something, 

realizing you have more to learn

making honest assessments 

changes you...it can be quite a roller coaster

It isn't about failing

it is about learning how to learn

being competitive

or when not to be

being gracious

offering respect where it is earned

Finding your peace in honest satisfaction

get better at what you can

admit when you cannot

love watching others progress

Life is the best education 

and we all pay with our lives to get it

Do we all get the same out of it? 

Just rambling on...I think it ended well

The world is far more Orson Welles than Orwell.

 War of the Worlds...the radio show.     Of course that was written by HG Wells. 

if you aren't willing to forget what you "know"...

 We only see what the mind thinks we can handle. 

Which means we only see a tiny portion of light. 

Actually, the brain colorizes things that have no color at all

there is nothing here

except the tiniest of things

that  are put together

like a computer program

1's and 0's

our senses do as they are told

but birds see ultraviolet light

frogs see color in the dark

bats echolocate

some average people have superhuman strength from an adrenaline rush

some people can get a head injury and play classical music with no training

and some have been put to death, for saying they saw things that others couldn't see

or heard things where supposedly no sounds be

Some of the most unbelievable things often turn out to be true

and that often means somebody did somebody wrong, based on what they "knew"

Ah,  "science". 

Love

 So I am watching this John Prine at George Strombopoulis House concert (spell ?) this evening. Makes me smile and brings a tear to my eye every time I see it. 

Makes me want to eat. Amy asks if I want a snack. She makes this dip with yogurt, spinach and Noors vegetable mix...and we are out of Hawaiian rolls so I say " why don't we use the hot dog buns since we forgot to put them back when they didn't have the hot dogs at the store."

And I washed it down with vodka and apple juice. 

Why I feel bloated after eating a ranch ish and spinach flavored curdled milk product on processed bread mixed with an acidic catalyst, I don't know. 

But I feel like I'm living through the speed of the sound of loneliness and Sam Stone and have an even greater appreciation.

I am a true fan.

My wife is a saint.

I miss bowling practice.

 Obligatory Bowling Practice Playlist  A link to a youtube playlist.   One day, I will put them on here individually. 

I chose these particular videos for my Grandkids, if they choose to pursue advanced bowling. I was ten to fifteen years younger, and weighed 60 to 80 pounds less.  If I tried to bowl today, I would probably fall over sideways.  I got what I could. 

All I ever tried to convey in my talks about the physical game of bowling skills, was flow.  To my eye, in these videos, I exhibit as fluid  a motion I can. Flow.    Before we can work on game plan, releases and ball reaction...we have to have flow. 

Most of life is like this. 

Just my two cents.