Where do you draw the line between “things you know how to do” and “things you know you have never done”? I’m a byproduct of an education system that puts great stock in learning by example, and after watching a demonstration of a technique, I’m considered to have received sufficient instruction. But, how to test the premise?
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Turns out I’m both (technically) poor AND lazy. A bad combination, where my spending exceeds my income and I accept to “eat out” twice in one day. Must show some reserve, ASAP.
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Obviously, certain messages aren’t getting through. About telephones, for example. There’s only one safe way to text while behind the steering wheel, and it involves being parked. The only way. Now, take a look around you, when in town, and see if you can spot the “dodo”. No sense sending them a message, because they aren’t paying attention.
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On the Island, we carry a special place in our hearts for one old lady: The Abegweit. Not the second one; the original. Navigated the Strait before I was born, continued until I was old enough to accept that there were other ways to get here from the other side. And then, she went away. Sailed off into the sunset, to a new berth.
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Once the kids got out of the school system, we stopped having to purchase certain things. Today, I was sent off to find what we used to call a “geometry set” and a pencil sharpener. Still early in the back-to cycle for merchants; I did fill my list, but I learned a bit more about the difficulties for a retailer in that domain.
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Almost anything can provide an “occasion for learning”. This morning, although I awoke too early (no longer have an alarm clock sense), my arrival at the local garage was on time. I handed over the keys and headed off to wander the immediate area; a graveyard that I hadn’t entered in four decades served as a reminder that many have tred the path before me.
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This evening took me outside of my comfort zone. On the practical level, that meant trading in my around the house clothes for something closer to what I would have worn to work, back in the day. On the mental level, I had to sit at a head table and address a roomful of strangers. Again, not too far removed from “back in the day”, but this is my new life in my new community. So easy to suffer a pratfall.
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It’s dusk, or as I call it, time to write time. Get in my usual chair, arrange the foodstuffs (tonight, a grap of grapes), put the TV on to Tuesday comedy. That should be enough to get the wordflow primed.
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More proof that times have changed: the article in Macleans, listing the relative ranking of “party schools” in the universityverse (it’s a word, believe me). My alma mater has fallen so far off the radar that I had to read to the end of the list to find it.
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There’s so much content available on the Internet; pity that I can’t do a start over on my odometer. Can’t work through even a spoonful of the potential without making a Faustian bargain for more time. I’m not the first to complain about the constraints of having “but one life to live”, I’ll bet.
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