It could be a sign of age, but I enjoy thinking back occasionally and consider where I was and what I have done and learned through the years. It’s a wonderful gift we have of somehow storing a lifetime of experience within our minds. The easiest way to get it out and share is what I am doing right now. Early man (I despise the term “primitive”) was also aware of this. (I use the...
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Purple Funks
Look up the various meanings of FUNK. It’s kind of a fun word. Purple is the color of the smog that surrounds funk allowing being “in” a purple funk in a visible sense, although in most cases it is simply a state of mind (depression). One cartoonist drew the condition as a brand of automobile so that the possessor could drive around in their purple funk. So I am not considering it a dire clinical...
Continue reading...A Taxing Day
I tackled one of my least liked annual events yesterday (Saturday). It really does spoil a perfectly good day. This time it took 13 hours, 8:30 AM to 9:30 PM. No lunch break but several for the potty. I did take 30 minutes for a beans and franks dinner. So make it 12 ½ hours. Its called “Doing the Taxes.” Yeah, I know a lot of folks knock that off about January 3 but for...
Continue reading...My Big Boom Theory
I have turned perhaps too many of my blogging topics inward since I hit my retirement magic number here in the USA a few months ago. That’s because there are very important decision as I mildly struggle with re-defining my continuing life’s work and how it could change and be different. Retirement is not a stop sign at the top of the career hill, but a choice to keep going on a new and perhaps...
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