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Things I Re-Discovered Today

Nov 3

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- When I am running late McDonald’s will inevitably have no decaf brewed.

- Too many drivers have no idea where the front of the vehicles are.

- Too many drivers have no ability to park, might be the same drivers.

- My boss always comes to talk to me as soon as I get on the phone to the CRA (Canada Revenue Agency – those of the ‘let’s see how long we can make this call’ agency)

- People really like my Acer One, they like to ooh and aww over it. It enjoys this.

- People oohing and awwing over the Acer One really prevents one from adding any words to their novel during their lunch hour.

- When you least want it to time disappears.

- The deer that seem to live in my back yard will stop and stand perfectly still for almost 20 minutes. I discovered this because I went out to take a photo of the moon and a deer walked out from behind my shed, I guess I surprised it at which point its freeze mechanism went off. It literally did not move even an ear the entire time I was taking photos. It finally moved when I said ‘Okay go about your business now.’ Frankly that part was rather odd.

 

NaNoWriMo Stats – Day: 3 – Word Count: 1172

America Can Change

Nov 4

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Good job America, the world is proud of you.

Mark Your X

Oct 14

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I did my duty today… Is it a duty? I guess maybe it is more a right…anyway…

I voted.

Unfortunately I felt no sense of accomplishment after walking out of the polling station. I’ve felt rather ambivalent about the entire process this year. In past years I’ve felt that either the party leader, platform or local representative was worth supporting. This year though it felt more like going through the motions.

Walking into the polling station I ran into a family friend who said “Hope you are voting for the right candidate". This is a person who is very open about their support of their candidate and who feels that theirs is the only choice.

I just laughed it off, saying “well that isn’t really your business is it?”. Really wanting to say “There is no right or wrong choice, that isn’t how the system works.” That brief interaction though took my whole attitude towards the event and killed it. I honestly wanted to turn around and just go home without casting my vote.

Instead I went in and made my opinion heard, or read I suppose. Though I’m still feeling like this whole election process was pointless. The country seemed to have already decided on an outcome which brought us back to exactly where we were before, only having wasted a lot of money to get here. *sigh*

Mis-Managed Marketing

Jun 30

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I was watching TV this afternoon when a commercial for Chevy cars came on, specifically their On-Star system.

I’m sure every one has seen or heard one of their commercials where the fabulous people at On-Star save someone’s life, or rather mundanely unlock their doors. All very touching and poignant.

This particular commercial talks about how ONLY Chevy (GM) cars have On-Star, then it shows how the system works. Crash, signal, transmit. Along with showing where these systems are located on the car.

The first thing I thought when they showed the “transmit” signal comes from the cars antenna was, what happens if you roll your car and the antenna breaks, does it still work? Or what if you don’t hit that crash signal button? I was still thinking about this fact when the commercial moved into a close up of the woman talking, with a Honda and a Toyota in the background, saying that neither of those OTHER cars comes with this amazing system.

Did I think at this point: I better only buy a GM car because obviously this system is fabulous and no car should be with out it?

Um no, I actually thought, well thank god I drive a Honda which is so safe that it doesn’t require a system that automatically alerts people when my car crashes and I am unconscious. Also how unfortunate that GM makes such horribly crappy cars that they had to invent this system in the first place.

Now I can only assume this was NOT the impression they were trying to make with this commercial, at least I hope not other wise they should really fire their marketing department. Yet another reason I am happy with my import car.

Random Gibberish

Jun 17

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It is now 11:03pm, this entry says I posted it at 9:08pm because that was when I originally opened the window to blog.

Then I got distracted watching season one of Secret Diary of a Call Girl. I know what you’re thinking, “wow she watches some classy TV.” Of course you would be wrong. ;) It is not even verging on the cute fluff factor, it is pure cheese – with a bunch of sex thrown in.

During my wasted time I asked Indigo Eve what I should blog about, since I was really not coming up with anything that interested me. Here are her suggestions:

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That is the random gibberish she suggested I throw out there.

Her other suggestion was to talk about the fact that I finishing booking all my accommodations for my trip. Having realized that I only have 16 days to organize it all I started to panic a little bit. Tomorrow I will be booking my train travel, and doing a little more research for places I want to see while I’m in the various cities. Perhaps tomorrow I will have enough figured out to really feel like it is all falling into place.

The other random tidbit for this entry is the topic of the hygiene meeting I attended tonight. "Reduce stress for yourself and your patients with a little known technique called EFT – Emotional Freedom Technique”. I’m what most people would call a practical/logical/analytical person, or at least I think so, but I am definitely not someone whom you would describe as “new age”. Not in the least. I do believe in things like the mind-body connection and holistic treatments. Had I really read the topic of the meeting tonight I can pretty much guarantee that I wouldn’t show. From the look/attitude of most of the women who were present tonight, I wasn’t the only one who wasn’t paying attention.

I spent the entire 105 minutes stifling yawns. The ‘EFT Specialist’ had us run through the “basic sequence” twice, while focusing on our “problem issue”. (I’m not using quotes to be dismissive, just those were his words.) I can’t say I actively participated, I mostly just mimed along, I’m sure he noticed (there weren’t many people in the room). It just really isn’t my thing. I can get behind trying to “focus the subconscious” but I can’t get behind randomly “tapping on meridian points” as anything other than a distraction technique. I tap on my head all the time when I have a headache and it doesn’t help – I doubt doing so in a more complicated tapping pattern will help in any way other than pissing me off more.

Since EFT has such a strong following on the Internet and many supporters I would guess it has helped people, which is great. It just isn’t for me – at least not until I decide to give up all my gadgets, science and technology. That practical/logical/analytical me just doesn’t care how much I tap, hum and roll my eyes trying to convince it either.

Hmm, looks like I had something to say after all. ;) Night!