Sunday, February 20, 2011
I've been thinking...
It started out innocently enough. I began to think at parties now and then - just to loosen up and be a part of the crowd.
Inevitably, though, one thought led to another and soon I was more than just a social thinker.
I began to think alone -- "to relax," I told myself -- but I knew it wasn't true. Thinking became more and more important to me, and finally I was thinking all the time.
That was when things began to sour at home. One evening I turned off the TV and asked my wife about the meaning of life. She spent that night at her mother's.
I began to think on the job. I knew that thinking and employment don't mix, but I couldn't help myself.
I began to avoid friends at lunchtime so I could read Thoreau, Muir, Confucius, Camus and Kafka. I would return to the office dizzied and confused, asking, "What is it exactly that we are doing here?"
One day the boss called me in. He said, "Listen, I like you, and it hurts me to say this, but your thinking has become a real problem. If you don't stop thinking on the job, you'll have to find another job."
This gave me a lot to think about. I came home early after my conversation with the boss. "Honey," I confessed, "I've been thinking..."
"I know you've been thinking," she said, "and I want a divorce!" "But Honey, surely it's not that serious." "It is serious," she said, her lower lip aquiver.
"You think as much as college professors and college professors don't make any money, so if you keep on thinking, we won't have any money!"
"That's a fallacious syllogism," I said impatiently.
She exploded in tears of rage and frustration, but I was in no mood to deal with the emotional drama.
"I'm going to the library," I snarled as I stomped out the door.
I headed for the library, in the mood for some John Locke. I roared into the parking lot with NPR on the radio and ran up to the big glass doors.
They didn't open. The library was closed.
To this day, I believe that a Higher Power was looking out for me that night.Leaning on the unfeeling glass and whimpering for Emerson, a poster caught my eye, "Friend, is heavy thinking ruining your life?" it asked.You probably recognize that line. It comes from the standard Thinkers Anonymous poster.
This is why I am what I am today: a recovering thinker.
I never miss a TA meeting. At each meeting we watch a non-educational video; last week it was "Porky's." Then we share experiences about how we avoided thinking since the last meeting.I still have my job, and things are a lot better at home. Life just seemed easier, somehow, as soon as I stopped thinking. I think the road to recovery is nearly complete for me.
Today I took the final step... I joined the Democratic Party
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Too Many Mind Games...
That's not how mother use to...
Monday, December 20, 2010
Learning to Fly...
When you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly."
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.
-- Charles Bukowski
Sunday, November 07, 2010
To-Do List...
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Sunday Driver...
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Bad dreams...
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Man in the mirror...
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Are you looking at me?
Monday, May 10, 2010
Life's a bitch...
Sunday, April 04, 2010
Happy Easter...
Sunday, March 28, 2010
That smelly smell that smells...smelly...
Saturday, March 06, 2010
Fix-a-flat...
Sunday, February 07, 2010
Mini-Kegged...
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Friendly card game...
Saturday, January 02, 2010
Wag the dog...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Thirteen Things PMS Stands For:
1. Pass My Shotgun
2. Psychotic Mood Shift
3. Perpetual Munching Spree
4. Puffy Mid-Section
5. People Make me Sick
6. Provide Me with Sweets
7. Pardon My Sobbing
8. Pimples May Surface
9. Pass My Sweatpants
10. Pissy Mood Syndrome
11. Plainly; Men Suck
12. Pack My Shit
13. Potential Murder Suspect
2. Psychotic Mood Shift
3. Perpetual Munching Spree
4. Puffy Mid-Section
5. People Make me Sick
6. Provide Me with Sweets
7. Pardon My Sobbing
8. Pimples May Surface
9. Pass My Sweatpants
10. Pissy Mood Syndrome
11. Plainly; Men Suck
12. Pack My Shit
13. Potential Murder Suspect
HO-HO-HO!!!
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Happy Christmas & Merry New Year !
We must always be politically correct...so instead of saying Merry Christmas we must say Happy Holidays as not to offend anyone from other cultures.
Well I'm sorry but this sure as hell offends me.
If you don't like the saying Merry Christmas then you probably won't like this southern saying either...
Don't let the door hit you in the ass as you leave our fine Country. You all don't come back now ya hear - Bye, Bye!
Saturday, December 05, 2009
Do you want fries with that?
Sunday, November 22, 2009
White boys can't dance...
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Us & Them...
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Chili & Fries...
Saturday, October 03, 2009
X Games...
Saturday, September 12, 2009
South Wind's a blowing...
Sunday, September 06, 2009
Picky eaters...
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Life's a bitch...
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Do you want fries with that?
Yes...and add extra ketchup please...
Sunday, July 26, 2009
In a bad economy...
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Easy Rider...
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Dirty mind...
Sunday, June 07, 2009
Double Coupon Day...
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Left Turn...
Saturday, May 02, 2009
Memo...
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Earth Day...
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
Do you want fries with that?
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Don't you hate it when that happens...
Sunday, March 01, 2009
Broadcasting pioneer Paul Harvey dies at age of 90...
Harvey was born Paul Harvey Aurandt in Tulsa, Okla. His father, a police officer, was killed when he was a toddler. A high school teacher took note of his distinctive voice and launched him on a broadcast career.
While working at St. Louis radio station KXOK, he met Washington University graduate student Lynne Cooper. He proposed on their first date (she said "no") and always called her "Angel." They were married in 1940 and had a son, Paul Jr.
They worked closely together on his shows, and he often credited his success to her influence. She was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1997, seven years after her husband was. She died in May 2008.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Love is in the air...
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Do you want fries with that?
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Party like its 1999...
Sunday, January 18, 2009
It's not my fault...
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Us & Them...
Sunday, January 04, 2009
Remote control, please...
Saturday, January 03, 2009
Difference of Opinion...
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
The Day of Reckoning...
Monday, December 22, 2008
Problems, problems...
Everyone concentrates on the problems we're having in this country lately.
Illegal immigration
Hurricane recovery
Alligators attacking people in Florida
Not me. I concentrate on solutions for the problems.
It's a win-win situation.
1. Dig a moat the length of the Mexican border.
2. Send the dirt to New Orleans to raise the level of the levies.
3. Put the Florida alligators in the moat along the Mexican border.
Any other problems you would like for me to solve today?
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Investment and Anarchy...
Friday, December 05, 2008
Un-Happy Holidays...
