A Stream of Consciousness

Some days there doesn’t seem to be a focal point, just a lot of random thought and thinking.  Today was one of those days for me.  I decided to share it with you.

This morning I woke up at 4 AM worrying about why I couldn't find my textbook for a college course I'm taking. Got up. Couldn't find it. When I got up again at 6:30 AM I decided to wear an LA Dodgers jersey as a workplace Halloween costume (since they're in game 6 of the World Series tonight). Couldn't find it. Went out to retrieve my phone, because I last week I lost my normal charger cord and now have to use the one that plugs into the car. Are you starting to see a strange pattern emerging?

I stepped on the scale again this morning.  It’s disconcerting lately.  This morning was the first time I’ve ever muttered a tiny “Thank God” for a reading of 199 pounds.  (Troubling, right?)

I get crazy about drivers who cut in line.  This morning there were several on my morning commute.  As I was coming out of the Midtown Tunnel listening to ‘spooky’ music and talk of ghosts on the radio, a big car came racing by me on the right and cut off the guy ahead of me.  I felt the fury rising; that driver was about to get a blast of my very private, very effective sworn testimony.  You can imagine how difficult it would be to stop that fury in its tracks, but that’s exactly what happened.  It was like a big bucket of cold water was dumped on the fire of my anger.  It just faded and fell away, leaving me wondering and amazed at the sudden change, and a little startled by what I’d seen.  It was a hearse.  (Later I caught up to see if the driver was a Ghostbuster.  Nope, just a sailor.)

Every time I try to log onto any website that sells books, the web browser freezes.  It’ll go to any other site.  Navy sites. Google.  YouTube.  My email.  Random sites where I’ve looked up scientific questions.  But try to go to any site having to do with bookselling and the response is Nope No Go Nothin’ Doin’ Give Up.  Why doesn’t someone want me to buy another copy of that textbook?

Equation seen on Facebook:  ‘Expectation – Observed Reality = Frustration’.  Kind of a negative way of expressing a point, but I think it makes sense.  Think about it.

Half a millennium ago today the Protestant Reformation started.  Martin Luther, monk and priest, nailed his issues to the door of the church in Wittenberg, Germany.  Besides the religious importance of this courageous act, the Reformation was a giant step forward for individual liberty.  Its effects are still being felt today.

Radio commercial this morning seeking donations of automobiles pointed out that classical music will always be around but your old classic automobile won’t.  It got me thinking.  Music is ephemeral.  First it exists in someone’s mind, then it can be played and shared and recreated endlessly.  The tune can go on for as long as there are people on the earth.  A car made of steel will eventually rust and fall apart.  Strange, isn’t it, that the thing we think of as strong and durable succumbs to the ravages of time sooner than something that has no physical substance at all?  That made me wonder about what ‘everlasting’ really means.

That’s about all I need to share with you this morning, I guess.  Happy Halloween, everyone.  Eat more chocolate.  Be as different as you need to be… but don’t be too weird.  Think about stuff.  Make a child laugh.  Have fun.

Gryphem

P.S. Posted in between servicing trick-or-treaters!   =-)