#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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