I was watching some old episodes of Twilight Zone. There was one episode (Season 1 – Episode 15 – Walking Distance) that I liked. The episode was about an advertising executive who hated his life. One day he just got into his car and started driving. He stopped at a gas station for an oil change, when deciding what do while he waited, he saw a road sign that said…
Jason was on his computer the other day studying. He was at my wife’s work place sitting in front. I went to visit them and when I walked by, I saw that he was playing games on the computer. He didn’t see me through the window because he was concentrating on the game. When I went into the shop, I saw him fiddle with the keyboard. I asked him what…
In early October, I went on a hike in Yosemite with the fitbit group I belong to. In the middle of the hike, we walked uphill for a while then we had to walk downhill. I was gratefully for the break; however, after a couple of minutes, I realized that walking downhill now (easy) means that on the way back, we would have to walk uphill. Also walking uphill is…
In my basement at home, I have two light switches. One light switch turns on a single light that will provide adequate light for going down to the room in the basement. The other switch will turn on all the lights in the basement (big light). I noticed that Jason would turn on the big light when he goes down to the basement room. I asked him why he had…
Jason is a teenager now and is starting to establish his identity. Part of that is saying “no.” One day, I told him to put some groceries that my wife bought into the trunk of the car. He said No. I told to put it in the trunk and he said no again. I then gave him the death stare and said with low voice and in tone which told…
Once I was vacationing in Thailand and while I was walking back to my place in Bangkok, I noticed a truck in the soi that lead to my place. It was carrying a large metal frame object. It was stopped and holding up traffic because it couldn’t get pass the low hanging wires. I saw a person on top of the truck wrapping a wire around the tangled wires. I…
Continuing with the Pokemon Go theme: After doing some research and talking to people, I learned that some Pokemon are better than others. I took over a gym one day and found that some of the Pokemon I chose to attack the gym with were not effective against the Pokemon there (because when I attacked, I saw a message on my screen that said something like “attack not effective”). Based…
In July I was working with a two people on an out-of-town assignment. One of them was playing a game on his phone called Pokemon Go. I remember the Pokemon cartoon when I was growing up, but I didn’t know that a game had come out for smartphones. One person said it was great, the other said it was stupid and a waste of time. In the past, I would…
I got into town from a business trip on Friday. When I came home, I noticed that my garbage can was in front of my garage door. My sister must have taken it out on Thursday night. I said to myself that I would take it in later. I cleaned up and watered the plants. I went to a friends coffee shop to bring some vegetables I picked from the…
The wrong question – “I guess you don’t like basketball, right?” I asked my son this question because I wanted to “motivate” him to study harder. We have an agreement, if he doesn’t put forth effort in studying and scores low, he doesn’t get to play basketball. But in motivating him, I shouldn’t have phrased the question that way. In asking him the question that way, I 1- caused him…