This philosophical question not only ponders an age old curiosity, but can honestly address theological perspectives, yet I’m going to present this question in the physical realm. The same realm that measures things by that which we can hold in our hands.
That question is “Where are we in the universe?” the more I pondered this, well, the more I realize that I may just have Cosmos Phobia! (If that’s even a phrase… ) Because the sheer size of this question and the potential answer, there are days I frighten myself.
Well, right now, I’m at my computer. That computer is in my home. My home is in a specific city, that’s in a specific state. My state is in the United States, which is a man-named land mass that is located on Earth.
So far, so good.
So my computer is held up by my desk, that’s held in place by gravitational forces of mass-attraction on Earth.
Here’s where I start to loose it.
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Life is a funny thing.
No matter what decisions you make you never know if they’re the right ones or not, but you make the best ones you can.
Then there are days that no matter what you choose, the fickle hand of fate just reaches out and slaps you around.
What are Bruce’s Thoughts? They’re my thoughts or observations. Sometimes how people are in traffic or other social interactions are worth mentioning. Sometimes cool or hokey things that catch my eye is fun to write about.
Other times, you might catch an occassional vent post where I’ve had a bad day or something, that might be a funny parable or well, just something that makes you feel like, “Hey, my day is not that bad. I’m doing pretty good!”
OK, it’s where I rattle. And you can find my THOUGHTS here.
I’ve noticed time and time again how in the last year or so, in this economy, unions fight for their employess, (as they should) to not give up their contractually set raises. Firemen, police and whomever else.
I understand their concerns about being shorted… but inevitably, a few months later the lay offs come around the corner to those very orgs that previously shot down the idea of staving off their pay raises.
Right now in Palo Alto, the firefighters union had agreed to forego a 4% pay raise, but those who are retiring are concerned about their pensions being set by their last year of employ and it seems they had enough pull to get the union to back out of the agreement.
I’m sure there’s a ton more to it than meets the eye from the article I scanned… but let’s see – It’s September. I’m betting in December or January we’ll be hearing about staff being cut to meet cost cutting demands.
I just feel bad for the folk who weren’t part of the idea to back out and will be finding themselves out “on the street” looking for employ.
That’s all.
Why are we always in such a rush? Do we just never leave on time? Leave too late? Or just think we’re in a rush?
What is your deal? Why do you feel compelled to run the yellow light or even the just turned red light?
Why do you tailgate the guy in front of you when he’s doing the speed limit?
Why do you blow the horn at the guy in front of you when all they want to do is make a turn into a driveway or left onto another road?
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Some snippets of thoughts from the last year about Palo Alto, CA:
March 2009
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Palo Alto’s Foothills Park will remain exclusively for city residents after the council had voted down a proposal to open its gates to local business owners. Wow, a park owned by a city who won’t share it.
My first impression about Foothills Park: How presumptuous of them to restrict a chunk of nature that everyone has a right to and restrict access via the residencies… or income status.
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This memorial day weekend is the biggest weekend of the NASCAR season. No, not in notoriety of the race itself, but in the amount of time that this race is going to take.
This weekend, if any weekend, exemplifies the premise of team work and endurance.
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One point some time ago, I was reading an opinion article that took the stand that says the government’s surveillance of the general public is very “Big Brother” like, from Goerge Orwell’s book, 1984. The author says they want it stopped and their privacy returned.
Have we become that which was written about in 1984? Sure. What of it? I’d rather the governments come out and say what they’re doing rather than employing other clandestine methods.
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Thank god for Akismet. I’m starting to get the usual spam that word press blogs get but I have Akismet doing the dirty work. Pretty cool.
These spam comments are annoying, but one in general is tempting me.
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Some days, I just wish I could defeat the Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) beast. Today has been no exception.
While I’m writing this snippet of one of my sporadic thoughts, I had started out writing an article for another site while watching NASCAR qualifying for Talladega on TV.
While I was writing the article, I got distracted doing research on a director because of a film he directed.
Then I got sidetracked at an animation website and had to sign up and log in to leave a comment.
Then I graced through my email and 2 or 3 titles caught my eye.
All the while, I had gone back to the original article to keep editing it, then remembered I was in the middle of replying to an email and decided to go back to that to finish it before I forgot my train of thought there.
Meanwhile, I had forgotten my train of thought on my aritlce and decided to twitter something on my NASCAR twitter account which reminded me that I needed to twitter to another twitter account that what nascar fans are following my brusimm Twitter account, should go check out Bits_And_Pieces since that’s where I’m posting my new NASCAR material and thoughts.
Sigh, that reminded me that maybe I should blather about this here, and splat my thoughts on this here. Which is what you’re seeing now.
->OK, I’m done with this, so now I can go back to that… um… what was I doing? Oh, I think I’ll take a nap.
I really wish I could focus on just one thing at a time. And right now, that one thing seems to be everything.
This is no real joking matter. I think I’ll go take a look for a decent book on the subject. See if there’s some way I can beat this beast, or beasts.
Here’s one book on Amazon I’m pondering, since the title is appealing to me.
Driven To Distraction : Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood
