Just another avenue of expression...

Remember, look both ways when you cross your eyes.

If I'm about to dash across a busy street, i'll flip my index and middle fingers back and forth very quickly. No idea why it started. I used to do it on my run in for the long jump too, but not the high jump.

There was an episode of the new Twilight Zone back in the mid 80's that had little blue guys that make everything for every minute of time. People then move from one minute to the next. The 'Blue Dudes' don't make something for that minute if no one will see it. This is why your keys will be on the counter one minute, then gone the next. They get distracted and for get to place them back the minute you look for them. A few minutes later and they re appear where you were sure you had looked for them several times before. I yell at the Blue Dudes when I lose something. First there is the plea for it's return, then later the stern 'bring it back you lazy, incompitent lillte blue freaks'. The really scary thing is, I usually stumble across the item I was looking for right after that. (how's that for silly and illogical? )

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I'm not evil.
An evil person would do the things I think up.

This happens a lot when I quote from a website. When someone challenges or questions me, I look back at the website for additional proof only to realize it's been edited.

Oh wait, this is not the same.

None-the-less, this frustrates me to no end. I think I will begin to save the article as I saw it.

I drive miles out of my way to purchase a particular brand and flavor of cat food. I used to live by this "quickie mart", but I've since moved. I can't find the stuff at the super market. I can't find the stuff at the pet mart. I do find the brand name. I only find this particular flavor at this "quickie mart". The precious feline "input and output" unit is selective on her daily meal intake.

When I'm walking into stores, I switch the magnetic ribbons that are so popular on bumpers. So then the people come out and instead of a bright pink "find the cure" they have a "remember our veterans". Then I wonder if they will even notice.

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Teri berry...quite contrary, how does your garden grow?
Width, silver, bells, cockle, shells, and prithe made all in aureole

I won't put one on my car for fear of it being stolen. They are on my refrigerator, instead. I never thought about someone switching them. That's funny, teri!

You're a smart cookie! I steal 'em too, but just the plain pink ones because they're not saying anything at all and that's just dumb. Support a cause or not, I say.
Once I stole two that did say something but the car was double parked in the shade on a HOT day...

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Teri berry...quite contrary, how does your garden grow?
Width, silver, bells, cockle, shells, and prithe made all in aureole

The pink one I have is from the Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization. I donated money on behalf of a co-worker, and the magnetic ribbon has United on it - must not lose. Another one I have is a magnetic ribbon for We Remember (red and blue with 4 white stars). It doesn't have any words on it. It's a magnetic ribbon given to all the United employees on the 4 year anniversity of September 11, 2001. Each came attached with a note. There is no way I am putting these on my car, especially, now.

Before I stopped wearing a wristwatch I noticed that when thinking about time in any way, including working out dates and intervals countable in years, I'd look at my watch.

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And the "driving on the freeway on a scooter" analogy still holds true because the pilots are sitting in 7 to 30 ton aircraft o' doom and you are running around them in your very own Meatbody, Mark I. Beep, beep.
Trying to make sense of computers, The Error Log.

- I do "do-overs" of past conversations, in my head, as if it changes anything. Some of the conversations are 10+ years old.

- I never feel like I know enough. I spend inordinate amounts of time reading, testing, and double-checking minor things. Consequently, I've produced nothing of "worth" using what I know. Probably more of a motivational problem, though...

That's good. We used to do something similar when I delivered pizzas. Parking near the pizza joint was nearly impossible, so when we had to grab a spot just for a second, rather than feed the meter a quarter we'd grab a ticket off a windshield (always lots available) and put it on our car for the couple minutes it took to load up.

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Don of Borg - Cool, Calm, Collective.

"Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Quite - though I stopped wearing a watch 15 years ago - when I realized there was no point. There are clocks everywhere - on my computers, on my VCR, on my TV, in my car... and when I'm camping, who needs a clock?

The only time I wear a watch is when I'm on a mission - because then I have to log things and knowing the time is essential. And usually there's no working clock nearby. (cant' get away with "found resident of 123 bobo street. Dead. sun 47.5 degrees above western horizon". Not enough room on the form, for one thing)

With two cellphones and a gps you should be pretty covered on timetelling thingies on mission anyway, or am I misremembering something?

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And the "driving on the freeway on a scooter" analogy still holds true because the pilots are sitting in 7 to 30 ton aircraft o' doom and you are running around them in your very own Meatbody, Mark I. Beep, beep.
Trying to make sense of computers, The Error Log.

You'd think that would be the case, but I notice that there's rarely a clock around when I need one. My high school had no clocks in the halls, and no bells to signal the start of classes, so getting to class on time was pretty hit and miss. Then I thought things would improve when I went to university, but no... not only were there no clocks (except in offices), but in that environment you can't even rely on the "everyone's leaving for class, so I should leave as well" method.

On the plus side, my university had lots of windows, which my high school was almost entirely without. Plus it had TV's which were easy enough to commandeer for a moment to check the time.

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