Ramble

Sometimes writing is like hedging my bets I don't think I have anything particularly noteworthy or brilliant to say but I try and write down a lot of the smarter things that I do say just in case I need to revisit this or if there are future people might be interested in how I thought along my journey

I have been thinking a lot lately in computer terms and metaphors one in particular right now is the changing of primary to secondary importance and priority from my work life to my personal life

As I walk through Home Depot a cashier me through the self checkout. I could easily have gone through myself which was the purpose of the machine but instead she rang me through which makes me wonder about and the satisfaction they get from them. Is this what she wants to be doing every day when a machine next to her can do the same thing.  That must be very dehumanizing.

I also purchased my prescriptions from Murphy's Pharmacy and waited in line behind a woman who had to pay several bills with several different account numbers in cash and it was a really slow process this is stuff that I take for granted and just takes me 2 seconds while this woman a 15 minutes.

If I can learn to accept the uncomfortable it makes the comfortable all that much better

"We need to narrow the gap between our rhetoric and our reality." ~ Michael Ignatieff 

Sam Adams that says something along the lines of nothing changes a man's ability to negotiate more than knowing he's being hanged in the morning.

Hope versus optimism.  We need to look to the Past to when they thought things were insurmountable and they had hope up today hope even though it seems implausible even though things don't make sense