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  • The Danger of Voice Recognition

    What strategies do you use to cope with negative feelings?

    Humor sometimes.

    I was writing an essay yesterday.

    The first paragraph is my writing.

    The second must have picked up by a phone conversation in the other room mixed with one with my son in Berlin.

    There was a social event in our neighborhood that I didn’t really want to go to. It was a meeting where we argued over large subjects such as how many trees to plant in the park and what vendor we should hire to refill the dogs poop bags. Our agenda today was to check the speed bumps over on Lincoln Road.

    Hey, are you home? Call go how was the flight? How long was it? That’s not bad. How much did that cost you? Just just curious what do you remember? What airline are you serious? No wow that’s pretty cool. That was she says on the phone with her friend from Connecticut

  • Dogma

    Dogma

    How do you manage stress?

    Who knows how I manage stress. I’m very fortunate because I’m at a point in my life where the day-to-day is not so uncertain.

    But holy shit the state of the world, brings me back to my original statement of I have no idea how I manage stress. I’ve never been good at compartmentalizing injustice in the world.

    Let’s take a very small part of this world. I’ve always been a big sports fan for many years, the success of the team I’m pulling for was tied to a certain happiness in my world.

    Somewhere along the line I decided I can’t become emotionally invested in how well as certain sports team does. I simply don’t pay attention that much, and I certainly will not sit down and watch an entire sporting event.

    I seem to have taken the same approach to the affairs of our country and the world. It’s not that I don’t care. I only have so much control and so much emotional bandwidth.

    And it doesn’t hurt to have a dog.

  • The Expanding Past

    The Expanding Past

    What’s something you’ve done that your past self would be proud of?

    To phrase this properly, what have you done that you are proud. Every single thing that comes before is your past self. And Yes I am happy where I am at, proud as well as happy to be retired

  • Ethics 101

    Ethics 101

    What’s the best online course you’ve ever taken?

    A few years back, we had mandatory classes we had to take as computer programmers. One was an Ethics exam.

    My boss tried to convince me to look up the answers in advance. Not that those online tests are great, but having a boss wanting me to cheat on an ethics exam was a signal. It was not going to be a good experience with this boss.

    It wasn’t.

  • A Swim in The Pond In The Rain

    A Swim in The Pond In The Rain

    Which celebrity would you love to meet, and what would you talk about?

    By happenstance, I’ve met plenty of celebrities in my life, including Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. When meeting a celebrity they’re just normal people like you and myself.

    I stand corrected as I’m not normal and I don’t really want to be.

    As I write this I am drawing a complete blank as I don’t have any yearning to meet any celebrities

    I would really like to sit and talk to George Saunders. His writing style is so different. I read his book A Swim In The Pond in The Rain on three different occasions. This book had a tremendous influence on my writing and what I read.

    I’ve also listened to his book on audio, and his speaking voice is tremendous.