Crazy

It's been a very crazy and hectic few weeks. I need a break!

Not much time for thinking about blogging, much less blogging about thinking. Hopefully, next week will come relaxation.

Roland

Laptop Back

It's empty. All is gone.

Somewhere, there is a backup that a month or so old, but that "safe" place where I put it has alluded my memory.

There are so many things that I can live without. The problem is that, over the years, things that I no longer have will continue to pop up. Should I pay for the data recovery service? I don't even know how much that costs...

Crap.

Laptop Dead

I feel so alone...
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Overtalking & Overthinking

Kids all weekend. Brain fried. My son used to have a phrase for when an adult would talk and talk and talk about something to get the kid to understand. Overtalking. The kids have overtalked.

I actually got up early on a Sunday so I could sit and read and have coffee in silence. This is a highly recommended practice.

I'm on cup #2, and the only sound is the scuttling feet of the rats. This is very nice.

I'm a little fried because I know my week's going to be crazy at work. Tomorrow, I have to prepare for a presentation on Wednesday, but I only have a short window to meet with the team, as I have to hold three training classes tomorrow (7am, 10am, and 7pm). That's a long day, since that last class won't end until 9 o'clock.

Then, Tuesday's just as busy. Then Wednesday! I had the afternoon free to catch up, then gave in and booked it all up on Friday. I hate saying "no" just to cordon off time for stuff that can do any ol' time. But, I have to realize that this is a recipe for never getting those things done.

So, now, I'm overthinking. Spending my weekend planning my week in my head. What good will that do? None. Move along...

Back to today. At 11, we're off to an audition for the kids. Some Disney Channel casting person saw the kids at the Rancho Fair and asked them to come and audition for The Suite Life of Zack and Cody.



Allie



Tony with a recent catch

I'm hoping that one of them gets a big role, gets rich, buys a house and lets me live with them in it. I hope it has a pool.


Update: It went well. My son was all calm, leading up to it, then got nervous when the audition started. My daughter was nervous the whole time, then got all relaxed when the audition started.

It was fun. We'll see how this turns out.

Granola Tales – Paper or Plastic?

I spend a lot of time in natural food stores. I’m often surprised by what I see there. This is not what I expect from a “health food” store.

Whole Foods has a bulletin board where they post the comment slips that customers submit. While waiting for the restroom, I read the board. Apparently, Whole Foods has recently stopped offering paper bags (just plastic, now).

The lack of paper bags has upset quite a few people! Despite the flyers that tell the customer that the recycled plastic is more environmentally friendly than paper (trees and all…), the customer just doesn’t care. There are comments proclaiming the environmental differences to be slight, since plastic is bad, after all.

There are more comments about this issue, than anything other. Some use many exclamation points!!!!! Two complain that it’s “a crime” or “shameful” to offer bulk baked goods in plastic bags, rather than paper. Finally, several suggest that they will go elsewhere to shop; where they will get the paper bags that they love.

I’m simply amazed by this. The prices at Whole Foods are pretty high. Why would you even shop there unless you really believed in the environmental/natural food mission and products? Yet, here are people ready to abandon Whole Foods for doing the right thing and inconveniencing them. Naturally…