SA: This is why I'm looking for that bugger that made the road trip kind of experience something to be enacted only on the weekends, if you have $, or only once a year, if lucky, on a weeks worth of vacation, again, if $.
Ron: SA, having a young family can be very difficult. I found it difficult those first years. I changed Profession, taught myself computers, CAD, trigonometry And surveying while at the same time moving into A house and raising a baby. That first year was tough. I'm trying to develop that experience of freedom and Exploration in everything I do in my daily life. I have not achieved it yet but this is my intent. Being aware of the mind bending miracle that what I am And all I experience, is a convergence of energy patterns Is just staggering. Now, the source of this is not as big A concern as what the hell to do with it. This seems Paramount, developing aim, direction and attitude. [Krimel] Our Indian trip was the biggest one we made but my wife is a genius at vacation planning. We traveled on the cheap. We always drove. We always crammed everyone into single discount motel rooms and mostly we ate stuff bought at grocery stores and fixed in the car or the room. We got family memberships at our local science museum and it let us all in free to museums and zoos pretty much every where we went. She would also take the AAA tour guide and look for odd things to do, in out of the way places. Once we visited the world's largest hand dug hole which also had the bonus feature of the world's largest rock meteor. Another time, one of the kids did a really good third grade report on the Oregon Trail so we drove out to Kansas and Missouri looking for trail ruts and sod houses. I found out there ain't much of nothing in Kansas. Once after driving for about two hours without seeing another car we got pulled over for speeding. The cop told us we were clocked by an airplane. I was like OMG, all the way to the courthouse in Wichita. Until this evening, I actually thought of all those cool vacations like they were yesterday. Then I realized how long ago that was. See, I am actually on a road trip of sorts, right now. I'm in Boston doing diaper dooty for the next gen. I am really not an outdoors kind of guy and I love the city with mass transit and people speaking in unknown tongues all around me. Last night I went to a philosophy club meeting at a bookstore in Cambridge. They actually has a philosophy club here... Today, I narrowly missed attending a lecture by one of the few psychologists to actually win a Nobel Prize. They actually have Nobel Prize winners here... Honey, we are not in Kansas anymore. I had big plans for this evening. New Model Army is playing in a bar down town. I spent the better part of the week playing Green and Grey, 51st State and White Coats on YouTube to a three month old. She was rockin' some, let me tell you. So the show is supposed to start at 8 p.m. and off I go on the T. I find the bar. It's a small place and at 7:30 about half the people there are the band and a manager. I am all gimpy, with gray hair and a cane and I ask the barkeep when the band will be playing. She says 11:30. I was like, "Oh." She gave a look that clearly said, "You don't get out much do you?" So I hung around for a minute trying to look as inconspicuous as I could, without piercings or body art. I would have bought a T-shirt but all they had was medium. Medium? For chrissake, who wears medium? I would have stayed. I swear. I am not that frickin' old and I, by god, will not go gently into that goodnight. I will rage, rage against the dying of the light. But in my present capacity as elderly au pair the light comes early. I mean like unpredictably early, I can expect a doody call. The world is full of people I could care less about disappointing. I would call in sick, put them on hold, screen their call and or tell them to fuck off. But this three month old isn't one of them. So instead of a Quality analysis of Boston head bangers you get this and some time about sun up G-Diddy will be punching NMA into YouTube and explaining how 'it might have been' in baby talk. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
