Oops! And now for something...

If you don't know the rest of that quote, too  bad.

I thought the last post was a little dreary so lets try this...

Ever wake up in the middle of the night thinking about something you haven't thought about in, like, forever? Metaphorically speaking, of course.

And you can't get it out of your head?

When it's a person from the past, I take it that they need some prayer and i pray for them.  That usually works.

If it's something I did and its not a happy thought, I pray for forgiveness and too learn from the mistake.

That usually works.

The other day, I woke up in the middle of the night...

oops.

The other night, I woke up thinking about a hobby I used to enjoy.  Somethimg legal.  And I haven't  spent time enjoying that in quite a while.  And I still have all the stuff I needed to take up the hobby again.

It's a game, so you know more.  To be more descriptive is to wander away from the point.  If there actually is one but I'm enjoying the 'sound' of my own voice right now so...

But i don't have anyone to play the game with anymore.  Or the time.  And I'm not really sure I want to play that game anymore but I have boxes of the stuff...

And I couldn't get it out of my head.  And I didn't know what to do to get back to sleep.

So,

And maybe this is the point...

I decided to divert my thoughts.  I got up grabbed the Bible and read for a little while.  That was when I was reading Proverbs.  I'm in Isaih right now with some quick forays into Revelation (no s at the end) and Acts...

The other day, I was noticing how much John's writing ability had advanced between the Gospel and the last book of the Bible.  I'm not saying that i think they were written by 2 different writers.  It just seems like Revelation flowed better and it is a far more complex book...

Its like some of the stuff in Genesis.  The people who put a pen to it did not know that the earth was round.  But some of the stuff they write makes more sense with that knowledge.  I'm not saying it was fasified.  The age of the documents proves otherwise.

In case you are wondering, I got back to sleep in about a half an hour...

I wanted to read more though...

HAND!

Oops! Where does the time go?

So I was talking with a friend the other day and they said, You haven't Blogged lately.  I almost answered I didn't know anyone cared.

I'm not much, I have found, into narrating the events of my life. Not that I'm ashamed of what I do but that it never seems all that interesting to me...

I cleaned some more of the basement today and fished some mothballs out of the garden...

Rivetting...

And my views on society always seem to leave tigers hiding in the bushes...

Hey, you just pulled directly into the outside lane while turning.  You hate that!  You're blog says so...

Or even views on public events.  Do we really need another person to say how upset they are that Ray Bradbury is gone or that school shootings are horrible?

I once did an opinion piece for a college writing class about how rabies is bad for pets.  Filled with facts and footnotes.  It was a thickly vieled opinion on how everyone else was choosing topics that no one would argue about.

And then I get sooo concerned about spelling mistakes and making it perfect cuz i don't want people to discount the opinions withing cuz I forgot to use spellcheck...

or capitalize my i's...

Sometimes, it seems to me that a blog is a one sided conversation and those who are the best at it might be the ones who like to hear themselves talk...

Thats not even an opinion.  That's a thought.

About opinions, I sometimes think they are about to become illegal.  Can't take the chance of hurting someones feelings.  They might charge me with harrasment or hate speech.

It's like road rage.  If you have ever read the road rage law?  If you accelerate or decelerate in reaction to another driver?  Does that mean that braking for the person who cuts you off so you don't hit them is road rage?

Well, this hole has gotten pretty deep.  Maybe I should climbout of it before the neighbors come over bearing pitchforks and torches...

HAND!

And then...Vacation!

Well, that vacation lasted awhile....

It seems, when you go on vacation for a week, it takes up more than a week.  It's like dropping a marble into a glass of water.  It's like time displacement.  All the time you spend planning any vacation events and packing, if you can afford to go anywhere, and making sure you're caught up at work and other people who have work that is dependent on you get caught up or prepare for you not to be at work...

And then you've got to travel...

If you go anywhere...

OR... you might have a project that you've been meaning to work on and this vacation at home will be the perfect time to get that done...

To make a long story short, after two weeks of preparing at work for my vacation and preparing for a 3 day trip to Splash Lagoon in Erie, PA...

I only got half the detritus from beneath the deck cleaned out,

I'm still not caught up on Alcatraz or Castle,

the lawn still needs mowing,

I didn't make it over to my parents to help around their house (Now I have guilt),

I still have beer,

I forgot to assign a reset at work due the day after Easter,

Splash Lagoon was great!!

Which leads me to wonder,

Why do we only give ourselves one day to unpack?

HAND!!

Back to driving...

So now people are inverting traffic law.  I have seen more people pull into the far lane when turning right or left than ever before, usually speeding up afterward so that someone who turns onto a multi-lane road cannot pull into their desired lane first.  Even if I have my turn signal on.

Is this a desire to just automatically pass the person in front of you?  Is it a racecar mentality?  Have they thought through how dangerous this practice is?

I don't know how many turners I have almost hit, and have upset, because I turn into the closer lane as they try to turn, from the opposite direction, into their far lane or the one I am going for.  And then they get mad at me for turning at the same time as they did

I am all for courtesy, although I don't really fully agree with Ms. Manners idea of slowing for people who intentionally pull into a merging lane to jump ahead of traffic by hitting a high speed, but where is their courtesy?  I'm all for letting people merge into traffic or turn out of lots before me but not when they've put themselves in the situation on purpose due to impatience. I do let them in because I don't fully agree with having an accident.  And they know this...

That's borrowed stress.  There is enough stress in life without creating more by trying to pass one more person.  De-stress, follow the rules. 

That's the other part of this that is becoming apparent.  I think some people are doing it just because it's against the rules. 

It's like the story I heard once, or joke, of a guy driving his friend to work.  He sails right through a red light.  Doesn't even slow down.

The friend freaks out! "Aren't you afraid of getting hit?"

"No," the driver sighs.  "My brother does it all the time."

They skid around a corner through another red light!

"That is so dangerous! And illegal!"

"Don't worry about it," the driver says.  "My brother does it all the time."

They roar up the street and the driver slams on his brakes and stops at the intersection.  The friend looks around to see why.

"What are you doing?" the passenger says.  "The light is green."

"I know," the driver says.  "Just checking for my brother."

By the way.  As far as I know.  My brother doesn't drive like that.

HAND!

So...I'm driving...

My brother as been Blogging about driving...

What would Jesus drive?

Blogging.  Doesn't that sound like something from an old monster movie or something?

Picture Spock looking into his periscope saying, "The Blog is growing but these readings still don't make sense. What do you think Bones?"

"Dammit, Spock! I'm a doctor not a Blogger!"

Oops. off subject again. Silly me!

So my brother has been blogging about driving which is weird because I was once thinking of writing articles about driving and how driving is like life which is where 'What would Jesus Drive?' comes from...

Because I didn't think of Blogging but someone else obviously did so I have all this stuff in my head that I can Blog...

That's just funny right there.  Like it was all planned or something...

OK, on topic;

The biggest pet peeve of drivers was found, by someone who was paid too much money to figure it out, to be not using turn signals.  And we still don't use them.

Is that because we're too lazy or we don't want people to know where we are going?  People don't think turn signals are important until they almost get hit or they sit at a green light for too long because the other person is waiting for them to go straight so I can turn left...

I means it only takes a couple fingers to hit that turn signal on.  If your hands wweren't tied up with that cell phone, McDonald's coffee, cigarette and talking...

You've never seen someone gesticulate while they talk on a cell while driving? That's good times right there...

I find, when I pull up to a light in the turn lane with my turn signal on, just about everyone else suddenly turns theirs on.  Maybe they just need to be reminded to use it.  Their lives are so busy and hectic that things escape them.  I forget everyonce in a while and I become the guy who notices the turn signal infront of me and turns mine on.

I'm not perfect neither.  But I know the inherent(?) safety of using my turn signals to warn others that I'm going to be turning and slowing down, hopefully, to accompany the action.  So I don't get rear ended.

That's another funny story.  But I think I've rambled enough on this one.

Final thought; are the people who don't use their turn signals on a regular basis as directionless as they seem to be as drivers? Do they not really know where they are going?  Are they making it up as they drive instead of mentally plotting their course for the journey or day ahead.  Don't take the drive for granted.  Some destinations can only be reached by careful planning and your turn signal should be on to tell people where you are going and you know what you are doing...

Always thank God when you reach your destination safely, I say.

H.A.N.D.

Oops! Almost forgot to name the blamed thing...

Learning experience time. Let's see if the curve is still there.  So I'm not on Facebook right now but have been thrown into another spatial dimension of the WWW just because I read a blog and filled out a form and now I am the sole defender and protector of this little piece of heaven which will remain blank if I don't fill it or someone else never finds it but since this place is infinite, it is unlikely that someone else will find it unless I continue to fill the white emptiness with words.

Shouting isn't allowed  I geuss...

That's the part of writing, blogging, painting (which I don't do) and such that's cool.  You start with nothing.  Just a sheet (screen, etc) of white which you can fill.  I'm kinda using the vomit approach right now as I just pour my head into space.  No real structure.

Kinda like creation.  God started with a blank universe of nothing one day and started writing.  If you write, or draw, or paint (ET al) you have an idea how its all going to turn out and you just work on the creation until it meets the idea.

Imagine writing a sentance by placing each dot on the paper to create letters to create words...

I think that's it for now.  The bucket is empty.

HAND!

In the Starting...

So, I read my brother's BLOG and FaceBook let me start one so I said "what the heck" and started one.  Not that I really said that outloud because that wouldn't be right as Emily is relaxing on the couch and that would disturb her and I'm disturbing enough.
So, I wondered how people got their ideas for Blogs since it's supposed to be such a big dealig and everyone seems to have one and, since I'm american, I wanted one too but I wasn't sure what I would Blog about or even what i would cal the thin since it asked for a name so I went for one of my super secret inside jokes to see if anyone would ever figure it out. Since there's like a billyun people on this thing and all the good ideas have already been done, it probabl won't take too lon.
And then I realized how cool it was to have a Blog named HAND on Facebook...

Syill don't know what to Blog about...

Maybe next time we'll discuss WWJD where D is Drive...