I leave in about an hour...
...winging my way to Vermont to visit the 'rents.
Thing is...the last two trips I've taken have been very weird. Not the trips themselves, but the going.
Like, it used to be that when I would fly somewhere, there'd be this anticipation: I'm Going Somewhere™. You know?
But the last few, it's been very la-de-da. Flying has lost its mystique somehow. It's a kind of been-there-done-that sort of feeling. Hell, I don't even have that low-grade nervousness anymore...you know the kind I mean, that little gut feeling in you that you're taking your life in your hands, that you could easily be on a crasher and never know it until it's too late. I don't get that anymore.
In a weird way, I see this as a loss; you wouldn't think I'd get nostalgic about air travel, but...well, there it is.
Anyway, I will leave you with a few of my patented Weird Thoughts™:
You know what I've never seen? Polyester candy.
When "The Star-Spangled Banner" finishes, do you hear a little voice in your head shout, "PLAY BALL!"?
One of these days, I'm going to take a Monopoly set out and add up the values of all the cards under both Chance and Comunity Chest. The idea is, if you were allowed to buy either one and then were given (or owed) the money listed on the cards, would you wind up with a net gain or net loss?
I mean, okay, there's variables like those wacky cards where they make you pay taxes on houses and hotels, but forget those for a moment...would buying Chance or Community Chest--or both--be a Good Thing™ or a Bad Thing™?
Thing is...the last two trips I've taken have been very weird. Not the trips themselves, but the going.
Like, it used to be that when I would fly somewhere, there'd be this anticipation: I'm Going Somewhere™. You know?
But the last few, it's been very la-de-da. Flying has lost its mystique somehow. It's a kind of been-there-done-that sort of feeling. Hell, I don't even have that low-grade nervousness anymore...you know the kind I mean, that little gut feeling in you that you're taking your life in your hands, that you could easily be on a crasher and never know it until it's too late. I don't get that anymore.
In a weird way, I see this as a loss; you wouldn't think I'd get nostalgic about air travel, but...well, there it is.
Anyway, I will leave you with a few of my patented Weird Thoughts™:
You know what I've never seen? Polyester candy.
When "The Star-Spangled Banner" finishes, do you hear a little voice in your head shout, "PLAY BALL!"?
One of these days, I'm going to take a Monopoly set out and add up the values of all the cards under both Chance and Comunity Chest. The idea is, if you were allowed to buy either one and then were given (or owed) the money listed on the cards, would you wind up with a net gain or net loss?
I mean, okay, there's variables like those wacky cards where they make you pay taxes on houses and hotels, but forget those for a moment...would buying Chance or Community Chest--or both--be a Good Thing™ or a Bad Thing™?