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When I'm opening a door, how far behind me does someone have to be before I am not obligated to hold the door open for them? Two, four, ten, twelve steps? Honestly, this sort of thing causes me a lot of anxiety. Because inevitably, due to my bad judgement, I'll hold the door when someone is too far away and they will then feel compelled to run to get to the door as they don't want to be seen as taking advantage of my kindness. And I didn't want that, I just wanted to be nice and hold the door...
The Melbourne (Florida) International Airport is not exactly the prime example of a bustling, thriving airport. Of all the times I've been there, I've never seen more than one or two people in the airport bar. And when I say "the" airport bar, I mean the one and only that there is. Last Tuesday, however, there were about 10 people in the bar. I found a spot at the bar and sat down. About two bar stools to my right, there were two guys sitting and discussing politics. One was older and wearing a wedding ring, the younger, who also...
I always feel bad when I use the half-height, little kids urinal in the bathroom and some little kid comes in. When I look over my shoulder at him he is invariably fidgeting nervously, holding his crotch, crossing his legs and, of course, giving me the look of death that says something like "Look, tall dude, there's a perfectly good normal height urinal right next to you. Why aren't you using that one - you're tall enough, I'm not!" (We'll ignore the fact that the short one had been the only one available when I went into the bathroom.)
While...
My in-laws live in The Villages and while my wife and I were recently visiting we were looking through the newspaper with all the different groups, my wife said "Hey, the have a codependency support group."
All I could do was laugh and say "That sort of defeats the purpsose, doesn't it?"
I was reading this article and it was close to home for two reasons: 1) I went to Florida State and it talked about Willie Williams infamous recruiting visit, and 2) it talked about he was the only passenger on a commercial flight. The second point sounds like a stretch, but it can happen.
Years ago, I was flying from Phoenix to Denver. I got to the airport early and went to the United Red Carpet club as my flight was delayed. My flight was so delayed that the "next" flight was scheduled to leave before mine. Because I was in...
Since I've had my iPod (almost three years now!), 10000 Maniacs "Like the Weather" had the distinction of being the first song in my iTunes list (when sorted by Artist, the default) and on my iPod. I just upgraded to iTunes 7.3 and they've now put numbers at the end of the list. Not sure what prompted the change, but the honor of first in my list is Aaron Tippin's "The Sound of Your Goodbye". Congrats, Aaron. Call Apple and thank them.
A coworker yesterday stated she believes "everything in moderation". I'm sure most of us have said something like that in the past. It reminded me of a question I've often had:
Is it possible to be excessively moderate?
I've already commented on how not random my iPod is, but now it's getting weird. I selected "Shuffle Songs" and this is what it did:
Song 4: "I Am the Door" by Day of Fire (from the Day of Fire album)
Song 5: "Run" by Day of Fire (from the Cut and Move album)
I know, I know, you can adjust in iTunes how likely you are to hear a song by the same artist. Mine's right in the middle. And I know that sometimes it's gonna' randomly repeat songs by the same artist, but it still took me by surprise.
One great thing about the iPod is the random feature. Sure, it may not be totally random, but sometimes it just hits a great song. This afternoon it picked a great classic rock song "Rev On The Red Line" by Foreigner. What great song. Go buy it on iTunes if you don't have it - it totally rocks!
"...everybody knows at the green light you rev it on the red line..."
I have a rental car right now, as my car is in the shop being painted. The rental is a Ford Focus. A good, economical car.I'm probably returning the car today, so I had to get the gas level back to where it was when I picked it up, 3/4 of a tank. So as I open the gas tank door, the gas cap reads "Ford recommends BP".This scares me. I mean, if you believe the conspiracy theories, then the gas companies already own the patents on engines that get 100 mpg. But now, there's an acknowledged alliance between the...
Last night, my wife and I saw Billy Joel in Phoenix. Neither of us had seen him live before, and man, it was an awesome show!
We were talking about how much his voice sounds like it does on his
CDs, what an amazing piano player he really is, and how sad it is that
so many artists today are just crappy musicians and singers. The
crap we get sold as "talent" is amazing.
As an example, how does someone like Ashlee Simpson get to make a
record? All I can think of is her Orange Bowl performance of a
few years ago and how she got...