Randomisms

 More thoughts ..... 

• I envy those who write beautiful, thought provoking poetry and seemingly so easily. While I struggle with each word.

After fifteen minutes, apparently there's nothing else on my mind this evening. Wait!! There's also this ....

• How do people determine when it's time to retire?
• I occasionally catch myself referring to random persons as: 'That old guy'" And often that old guy is younger than I.  
• Glad to see that C.J. McCollum received the welcome back standing ovation that he so deserved, in his return to Portland last night.

Words

You have the most alluring, expressive eyes and the most tantalizing, beautiful lips that I have ever seen  ...... 

Just something I wanted to tell someone once and I was too hesitant, too shy, too frightened, too confused. So I say it here and now. And if I ever get a second chance ....

WOW!!

I'm stunned!! WOW!! 400 (and climbing) 'likes' on one of my photos on Twitter. 58 Retweets so far!! Is this a joke of some sort? Am I seeing things? I've broken the one hundred 'like' tally maybe three times in a decade. 164 was my high until now. What did I do to get such a reaction?  I'd like to replicate those efforts. 

And I didn't even think that much of the photo. It's just been sitting there in my library since November. Maybe I ought to double check and make sure it's mine? 

Edit: A day later and it's at 514 likes and 76 retweets. Quite a humbling feeling to realize that one of my photos has been seen and appreciated. Maybe even the person who detests me and has blocked me, will unblock just to give it a 'like.'

Again, I ask: What did I do right on this one?

Additional Life Notes

 Enjoying two days away from work. Notes on this and that ....

• Wow! 6:45am sure feels drastically different, (in an almost magical sense), when one is walking out the door to go for a stroll as compared to walking out the door to go to work.
• My sister messaged me about a thrift store where she saw five shopping carts full of vinyl records, five for a dollar. I said, thanks, while chuckling to myself that I'm sure there's a treasure or two there ..... But then I keep thinking: "What if there just happens to be an original 1954 rare recording in mint condition of Miles Davis in one of those carts?" That would be my kind of luck that I'd pass on the chance and then see some dudes video of his find. So anyway, guess where I'm headed today?
• Pain .... in the scariest of places.
• Kept a 60-year old tradition alive today. Every year I purchase a package or two of baseball cards for the new season. Even my vinyl record collection falls far short of that.
• Had a dude flip me off in traffic for stopping as the lights of a school bus flashed yellow. Apparently yellow means, speed up and pass before the lights turn red. And this guy held his bird for as far as I could see. Would he have felt the same if his child was on that bus?
• Seems to me that the quickest way to overcome cultural differences is to find something to laugh about together.

Library Rant!!

The local public library, which was closed for almost two years as renovations were taking place in order to get up to earthquake standards .... is now reopened and it seems that half the books have gotten lost. And it's dominated by this anti-septic looking whiter shade of white and pale color. It feels overly squeaky clean. It's certainly not cluttered up with books, information and tools of learning. 

Several years ago, I read of a new age librarian concept of doing away with many of the books in their collection. As far as I'm concerned, that's a mortal sin!!

Forgive me. I'm old. Have I ranted about this previously? Or was it just bouncing about my head? 

Anyway, it's no longer a welcoming place. 

Nor is it an interesting place. 

It's move to an alternate site clashed with the beginning of the pandemic and I don't know if that building ever actually opened for anything but curbside service. Even when everything else was reopening and dealing with the pandemic, they remained closed. Apparently the local librarians are exceedingly wmpy. And now that they've re-opened in their longtime site .... except for the half of the week when they are still closed .... well whoever came up with this concept utilizing the color white in excess, ought to receive one of their own library fines given for late books.

Notes For The (Seemingly) Upcoming Apocalypse

Notes for these scary times. Things that have been on my mind ....

• Sometimes one has to switch off the sources causing angst in ones life and spend time with what provides joy. It's not sticking your head in the sand, it's just emotional survival.
• "I guess" .... Apparently I start quite a few thoughts with those words. It's been pointed out to me twice lately. Once in anger by another. when something got lost in the translation. It's not meant as downplaying significance. It's mostly a resignation to fact in a light hearted way.
• If anyone told me that there was a thousand-plus dollars waiting for me that would require just a half hour of my time, I'd jump!! So why do I wait until the deadline each year to do my taxes?
• Who knew that all it would take is a new microwave oven to show me the difference in taste and quality between warm food and hot food. It's like discovering a previously unknown level of joy.
• Damn!! This 'golden oldies', classic rock radio station that I'm listening to .... I thought I'd be able to, "name that tune" about 95% of the time but I'm hovering, (actually sitting), at about 33%. I'm losing it!

This and That

Taking and making more notes ....

• I always wonder what might have been?
• Perhaps I should take on world issues .... Opposing sides at work come to me looking for an ear and solutions to their complaints. 
• Television on downstairs and I hear an interview with a basketball coach and it's all blah, blah, blah, until I suddenly hear: "It's really hard to learn when you're constantly winning."  .... So I guess I must be in possession of a huge volume of wisdom.
• I hate when I hear the name of a basketball player and think to myself that I saw him play three or four years ago and then find that he's been retired for twenty years. 

A Difference

It could have been great. Like never known before. The words were sincere and true. There was genuine caring. The intentions beyond noble. I would have made a difference in every day.

And you'll never know.