Summer Vacation

If you go somewhere, say the beach, and it is an hour away, then you should hope to spend at minimum two hours at the beach to make the trip worth the while. Most often the limiting resource is time when it comes to vacations. Great fun can be had for short money in the right places. So if you have a lot of time on your hands, get as far away as you can because it is unlikely you'll pass that way again for many moons.
When deciding on a location, consider your limitations and work from there. If you shrink when wet, don't go scuba diving. Time off could also be time to take up a new hobby or explore your neighborhood like a tourist. Happy trails you lucky kids with the summer off!

Miles

It's not the miles, it's the smiles. Although it's not exactly true, I am going to consider for a while that smiling is living and frowning is dying. If I keep that in mind I ought to end up smiling more. Could that be a bad thing? Mind you, what we might consider negative experiences also influence our lives, sometimes more powerfully than some positive events so the so-called negative ones aren't to be dismissed as not part of life. I just try to focus on the positive. I try not to waste my time on hate and violence. There is so much else to put energy toward. For all the mistakes you might make in the course of a life, smiling isn't often one of them. Light it up and spread a little cheer. If nothing else, it's polite. And as my buddy Duke reminds me, wave, because you never know until it's too late if they have a gun. Smile and wave, a choice for life, approximately.

Honor thy Mother

Mom always said, "If you can't say anything nice..." So if I miss a day on this blog it's either because I'm out adventuring or am looking for a good spin to put on life, approximately.

The Nature of Cool

Somewhere in radioland I heard a discussion of the definition of 'cool'. I think they all missed the boat with their answers. To me, Cool is the opposite of Spazz. The way it came to me is in the reaction one has to the pinball heading for the flippers. Either you are cool and wait for the right moment to flip the correct flipper or you flail like a spazz flipping both flippers together wildly missing. The concept scales up to life, approximately.