As I was driving into work today I hear how Barack Obama is planning to text his VP selection to his identified supporters. What a marketing scheme! Basically, if you sign up to support him, you get “advanced” notice. I just wonder how many fake supporters this will draw? Will this mess up the polls again and cause the final numbers to be WAY off the mark again? I wonder…..
Also, here’s a wild thought. We all know we need change. All the candidates tried to sell it. They all still talk about it. The main change we really need is cooperation in the governement. Could you imagine what would happen if the elected officials actually cooperated and got stuff done? That would be a change! Anyway, what if Barack Obama chose John Mcain as a running mate….and what if John Mcain chose Barack Obama as a running mate. That would lead to change. The vote in the end would be the choice of president vs vice president. That would be interesting. Especially since so many people are just voting for the best of the two mediocre choices…..
How do they get there? I always thought it was strange to see a single shoe sitting on the side of the road. Was it not tied on tight enough? Today I saw a pair of shoes….that made me wonder even more.So what do these people do in a car to lose their shoe and also have it leave the car? Were the shoes sitting on top of the car? Are these the type of people with a closet full of shoes and they just lose track of them? I really can’t figure this one out. Am I the only one that wonders about useless things like this. I am pretty active (you should have seen me as a kid….NON-STOP!!) and I remember my own shoe falling off maybe twice in my life. One time it actually was stuck in the mud. This was like a couple feet of mud. The other time I was playing dodge ball in sandals (ya, that poor choice is a topic for another day) and someone stepped on my foot.Seriously, if you have some insight into this shoe problem, please enlighten me.
So I was riding home listening to NPR today…and I hear this schpeal about lobotimies. It suggested that was a horrible scientific mistake. That made me think….how much of today’s science is really a mistake. As a Christian I wonder how much of evolutions is really accurate. Ya, right, there is a ton of “evidence” about it, but that is from the same human race that that thought loabotomies were a way to help mental patients….the world was flat…smoking was good for you… What do you think? Is science right on, or just a good current guess? Are there more errors in the bible or more errors in the history of science? I think I’d side with the bible myself because I don’t know of any proven errors in it yet.
Today’s commute wasn’t a commute at all. I woke up and went downstairs to begin work. I didn’t change from my PJ’s until around 11 am….4 hours into the work day. Ok, so that is nothing new. Lots of people are telecommuting these days. What led me to write was the though of missing my commute to work. I wonder what happened on the way in. I didn’t get to listen to the news and didn’t even “remember” the voting in Iowa last night until an email reminded me. When I don’t drive into work I find that I focus a bit too much on work that day. I might try out a new telecommuting method next week. Maybe I find a way to waste an hour and see if that helps me somehow be more effective in my work at home.
Today I tried something new. I found a podcast to help me learn Spanish on my drive home. I listened for about 30 minutes. It is a really slow start since I have four years of Spanish under my belt. Unfortunately, those 4 years didn’t pay off much.What do you do to pass the time on your commute? I am not sure this language lesson thing is going to work for me. If you pass a car with someone talking to them self…it is probably me. Wait . . . you can’t tell these days if people are on the phone or singing or talking to a baby in the car seat or whatever. I guess I don’t have to worry at all about looking strange talking along with my Spanish lessons. Actually it might help me fit right in!
Tags: podcast, talking and driving
Here’s the first post of random thoughts from my daily commute. I was driving in this morning thinking….mostly about nothing as usual. Then all of the sudden I had this great idea. At least I thought it would be fun…who really knows if it is great.
Anyway, I thought it would be fun to jot down some random thoughts from our daily commute to work. It is such a pain on some days, then other days it is a peaceful relaxation before and after work. I’ve seen some really funny things and some pretty scary things. It would be fun to share them here and hear from you about your commuting adventures.
Why would you want to do this…well I find that I am turning my commutes into a brainless wasted activity. I’ve listened to podcasts, suffered through the news, and tried the hip hop singalongs (that’s a scary thought). If I know I am going to find something to write about I think I could stay focused and be an alert driver.
Lucky for you have a one-hour (one-way) commute that I get to do about 4 times a week (that’s 8 hours of driving). I am sure I’ll have lots to share as I start to pay closer attention.