I have written a couple of more serious stories and posted them on the Triond web site. These are based on true events. If interested, please visit them and comment there. Thanks.
http://www.authspot.com/Biographies/Big-Boys-Dont-Cry.570613
http://www.bookstove.com/Autobiography/Ready-to-Go.570585
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Why did the Aggie throw his clock out the window?
Well, of course, he wanted to see time fly. When I was a kid my brothers and I loved to tell that joke.
Speaking of time flying.... (see how I so cooly transitioned to another way of looking at time flying)... when I was a kid and I would say something like, "I can't wait for the next six weeks to go by so we can get out of school for the summer," My mother would say, "You are wishing your life away. Enjoy these days, because the older you get, the faster time goes by."
How could 24 hours go faster when you are 45 than when you are 15, it's the same amount of time. Twenty-four hours is 24 hours, it doesn't matter how old you are.
When I had kids, I found myself telling them the same thing. Somehow, my mother was right!
We live in a time now where everything is geared to go faster. I remember when we used to have to get dressed, pile in the car, and lecture the kids on how to act, so we could go to the public library and do some research. Then came the computer. It seemed super fast at first. But, after a while that old slow dial-up connection, which could take a minute or two to connect to the internet, plus the long waits for the site you wanted to visit to download on your computer just took way too long.
Now we have high-speed connection, but sometimes that get irritatingly slow. I have places to go, people to see - I don't have time to wait 30 or 45 seconds for a page to download. My gosh, are we back in the dark ages here?
Then I remember back in the day the time I would waste using Google search. Can you believe that I would waste all that time typing in my search criteria, then moving the mouse over to click the search button. What a waste of time! Finally, Google placed a tip on the search page - "save time, simply hit enter after typing your search criteria." Whew, now I don't have to take my hand off the keyboard and place it on the mouse and drag the cursor sometimes up to an inch, just to hit the Google search button. What a time saver!
I'm not wishing for time to fly anymore - it just does!
Speaking of time flying.... (see how I so cooly transitioned to another way of looking at time flying)... when I was a kid and I would say something like, "I can't wait for the next six weeks to go by so we can get out of school for the summer," My mother would say, "You are wishing your life away. Enjoy these days, because the older you get, the faster time goes by."
How could 24 hours go faster when you are 45 than when you are 15, it's the same amount of time. Twenty-four hours is 24 hours, it doesn't matter how old you are.
When I had kids, I found myself telling them the same thing. Somehow, my mother was right!
We live in a time now where everything is geared to go faster. I remember when we used to have to get dressed, pile in the car, and lecture the kids on how to act, so we could go to the public library and do some research. Then came the computer. It seemed super fast at first. But, after a while that old slow dial-up connection, which could take a minute or two to connect to the internet, plus the long waits for the site you wanted to visit to download on your computer just took way too long.
Now we have high-speed connection, but sometimes that get irritatingly slow. I have places to go, people to see - I don't have time to wait 30 or 45 seconds for a page to download. My gosh, are we back in the dark ages here?
Then I remember back in the day the time I would waste using Google search. Can you believe that I would waste all that time typing in my search criteria, then moving the mouse over to click the search button. What a waste of time! Finally, Google placed a tip on the search page - "save time, simply hit enter after typing your search criteria." Whew, now I don't have to take my hand off the keyboard and place it on the mouse and drag the cursor sometimes up to an inch, just to hit the Google search button. What a time saver!
I'm not wishing for time to fly anymore - it just does!
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