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Here’s my advice for the day. Try to stop living in anticipation of the next thing: the next phase, the promotion, retirement, kids, car, album, or whatever. For too long in my life, I’ve been desparately waiting for whatever came next. Thoughts like this come to mind: (these are not necessarily actually my concerns, just examples)
Whenever I get my own apartment…
I can’t wait until I make XYZ dollars…
When will I be able to stop worrying about A, B, or C.
Sure, I hate my job now, but someday I’ll have a better one.
Even things like I can’t wait until there’s something decent to watch on TV again.
But I need to remember that, as I’ve remarked before, life is quite finite. This is it. Your life doesn’t begin once you graduate college, or graduate high school, or retire, or have a kid, or make more money, or any of these things. Your life is happening now. This is your only chance to take advantage of it. Stop waiting for whatever it is that you think will make your life better, and enjoy the life that you have.
This doesn’t mean, of course, that you can’t have goals. Achievement and self-improvement are some of the best ways to improve your life, as it happens. But you simply cannot exist in a state of nervous anticipation, holding off on your happiness until you reach whatever mountaintop you seek. That’s holding yourself hostage 80% of the time for some mythical 20% that may–or may not–live up to your expectations.
In the end, it’s like seeing your favorite band in concert. You absolutely cannot just tune out whatever’s going on in anticipation of the next song, because if you do you’ll spend the whole night that way instead of just enjoying it. And for all of us, the music is eventually going to fade.
Categories: Quick Thoughts, Check this out!, Weird
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So, I’ve stumbled upon yet another hilarious celebrity blog… Scott Adams, of Dilbert fame, writes:
Me: (answering phone) Y-y-yellow.
Telemarketer: Would you like to buy some crap from a stranger?
Me: I’ll give you $500,000 to beat yourself up right now.
Telemarketer: What?
Me: You heard me. But now it’s only $400,000. You should have started punching yourself in the nose immediately.
It kinda makes me snort into my coffee, much like Ken Jennings’s blog has been making me do lately.
Special bonus! He then writes an entire blog post about, er, public self-adjustment…
Luckily for me, I have the power of invisibility. As an unattractive middle-aged male of average size, no one notices me in a crowd unless I’m either on fire or wearing a suit made from the skin of an attractive 20-year old woman. For once, neither of those situations applied.
Now as you might imagine, pecker adjustment needs to be done quickly. If you linger, it looks like something else entirely. You want to maintain some degree of deniability when airport security starts questioning you.
I have no coffee left to snort.
Categories: Quotes, Funny
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The Xbox Live Arcade team has another hit on its hands with the recently-released Street Fighter 2. With an easy <50mb download, you’re back in 1993, except now your grainy SNES RF adapter has been replaced by 1080 lines of sweet, sweet high definition picture. And instead of having to hunker down at a friend’s house for some multiplayer (with more tolerant parents than yours), you can find a game 24/7 across the globe on Xbox Live.
My humble suggestion is–as you may have already gathered–Lemmings! I would immediately pony up the pseudocash to bring Lemmings into my living room, and I know I’m not even biased in the least by nostalgia when I say that. I spent countless hours on the 8088 in my bedroom trying to get those suicidal little buggers out the trap door, and I’d gladly do it again. Let’s see it, Microsoft!
Categories: Check this out!, Video Games
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Monday, July 10th, was our second wedding anniversary. It seems like the human tendency is to use anniversaries as a kind of yardstick. Has it really been two years? That one feels about right. It’s been an eventful two years–since July 2004, I’m on my third job (and third home).
But in the grand scheme of things, it’s a pretty short time. While many marriages are shorter, my parents hit 31 years in January. I’ve had cell phone contracts that lasted 2 years. We’ve had our cat for longer than that. Yes, in terms of yardsticks, while I’m happy to have hit this milestone, and I’m even more excited about the years ahead of us, it doesn’t seem like very long.
More striking, I think, is that as of July 17th, I’ve been with Heather for 10 years. We began our relationship in July of 1996, when the Olympics were in town. The newspaper last weekend read “Games Changed Everything”, with the expected retrospective pieces on the commercial and cultural growth Atlanta experienced during the years on either side of 1996. Somewhere in my closet, I have the newspaper from the Opening Ceremonies, 10 years ago. Metaphorically, it’s as if these two papers are the coming and going of a comet, a steadfast chronological ticker that returns to earth after a decade and finds that much has changed.
And yet, you could throw both newspapers in the same pile in the closet because they both represent that which is finished. Heather and I have laughed and cried for these 10 years together, and have shared our lives in ways that are always intensifying in an exciting manner. It’s invigorating to pass the 10-year mark, and it makes me a little nostalgic.
Anyway, as I’ve said many times, I love you, Heather. Thanks for the best 10 years of my life.
Categories: Family, In the news, Friends
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