#16 – What Is Time
1. I have a typical old-school digital alarm clock, but I end up using my phone as my alarm when needed.
Strangely, I can set both to the same exact second and yet within a
week or so, the plug-in alarm clock will be a minute ahead of my
phone. What’s up with that? Is a second somehow faster on certain
clocks? I keep fixing it but I wonder how far ahead my clock would
get if I just left it unchecked.
2. I’m not saying that
spring has been a bust on Cape Cod thus far, but it took me until May
7th
to actually open my windows and let fresh air in. I run hot as it is
so I don’t mind if summer isn’t filled with 90+ degree days, but
give me some 60s at least in May, c’mon!
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| Clouds and cool temperatures = spring on Cape Cod |
3. I was walking in between
stores at a shopping plaza. Ahead of me, way ahead, like 100 feet, a
woman was standing at a hair salon holding the door open. I don’t
know if she thought I looked like I needed a new hairstyle but she
held the door the entire time I was walking. She even said hi to me
and kept holding the door open as I passed. Not sure if someone
overflowed the toilet and the place needed to be aired out or what.
4. On an early morning drive
to work I saw a cute fox cross a quiet road ahead of me. It stopped
just beyond the fence and was watching me. So naturally I grabbed my
phone to get a photo and/or video. I stopped the car and got out and
it was as if the fox was messing with me because it waited until I
brought the phone up in front of my face before it ran off behind a
house. If I didn’t have to get to work I might have run after the
fox since it ran behind an empty vacation house.
5. You ever have a dialogue
going inside your head but at some points you reply to yourself out
loud? Every now and then I’ll say a few random words out loud in
response to my inner thoughts. Luckily I’m usually by myself
because if I was in the middle of the grocery store and I blurted out
‘well mainly because it’s cool’ I might get some weird looks.
6. I placed an order on
Staples.com. After finishing checkout I got a series of ads for
discounts on products and services. The first one that popped up was
a membership with AARP. Now I know I’m getting close to qualifying
but I am trying to milk every second out of not being AARP age. Still, it’s a cold slap of reality knowing that within a few years, those
brochures are going to be piling up in my mailbox, yay.
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| Me in a few years |
7. I briefly had an idea to
start a new podcast where for every episode I would take an edible
and see where things took me. Unfortunately, I notice after an edible
I enjoy mindlessly surfing the net and watching YouTube, so the
podcast would be hours of dead air and me asking you about videos you
can’t see.
8. I don’t understand people
who get angry, like truly angry about sports. Like where it
negatively affects their lives and the people around them. Honestly, unless you play the game, or are dumb enough to bet your savings on a
game, how much does it affect your life? Are you going to lose your
job if the Red Sox play poorly? Is your family going to leave you if
the Celtics don’t win? Being a fan and being an obsessed nut job
are two very different things.
9. In looking to get more eyes
on my podcast I joined another podcast group on Facebook. Within a
minute of posting an intro message and a link to my show, I was
bombarded with numerous spam messages asking me about paying them to
promote my show through them. Silly me, thinking that this group
might be people looking to find new podcasts to listen to. Nah it’s
tons of spammy bots.
10. It was fittingly ironic
that I watched my niece Emma’s (first) college graduation on a
YouTube livestream. Fitting because when she graduated high school in
2020 the world was shut down due to Covid. So I watched that event
from behind a chain link fence on the outside of the football field.
Thankfully she is continuing her education so maybe when the third
graduation comes I can be there in person.
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