time and random thoughts
July 9, 2010
Time and money and my random thoughts
Yesterday I spent many hours on the phone with tech support for a couple of issues in my moderately low tech world. I had to just get on the boat and float. It was totally out of my control and somewhere I did not want to be but I succumbed and held and floated through it. Funny it is still not resolved and I spent hours explaining my case to the two parties involved and kept getting referred from one to the other. Sometimes I feel that there are meetings out there somewhere where suits say “Well, if we make it difficult enough ….they won’t call back.” Just to be fair women wear suits too.
This leads me to this random thought –as a card store owner, I read and flip through thousands of cards a year. I try to sell cards that are not mean spirited, but it is shocking how many cards available that trash men. They are out right viscous. Cards similar against women would be met with horror but I do not understand why it is ok to say really negative things about men’s body parts, minds etc as a joke. I have pondered this for years (I have owned the store 13 years) and now you know the random spots my mind goes.
Back to the issue of time …….all the phrases we use to express our frustration come to mind……I do not have time, there is not enough time in the day, where does time go? I have a lot of sound bite interactions during the day with our neighborhood and the one I hear often is about how busy and time deficient we are. At some point we have to give over that it is not all going to get done and we still go on living, loving and hopefully laughing.
“What there is time? If no one asks me I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.”
Saint Augustine
“The past is solid, the future is liquid.”
J.L. Aubrey
I am in involved in a variety of neighborhood issues. Sometimes I feel that there are 3 different made for TV movies going on at once that I am involved in and each person I run into are watching a different episode. So I catch them up or they are ahead in the series and they catch me up. It is immensely time consuming so if I seem in a rush please understand. The one that is on hold for a moment or taking a summer break is the library mural issue. We reached a consensus that we agreed to disagree and that we both had to give up painted surface and give back a more permanent representation of the original mural on not as much surface of the library. A huge step forward and both sides gained respect for one another. We have faltered or we are in a lull now. We need new energy ( not of the truculent variety) to move forward so email me if you have ideas. Darcylee1@mac.com
Just like every other human being I just finished the “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”. It was a good summer read- really violent, though.
Enjoy our glorious enclave- and appreciate the fog as it rolls in – it is over 100 degrees across the country. Remember to floss so that she or he doesn’t have to use that awful vibrate-y thing when they clean your teeth.
Xoxox d
