Ten Things to Do
1. Learn to play percussion so that you can get the job doing the Progressive Insurance Jingle. You know, "Life from Progressive...(ding)...Tips from Flo". I wonder how much that cymbal player makes. It has to be $40,000 a year just to be on cue during the commercial. Which brings up the ultimate question, who would you choose; Flo or Neanderthal Guy?
2. Buy a Roku and hook it up to your TV then watch all the really bad shows ever created. I am partial to Netflix and have watched all of Grey's Anatomy, Lie to Me, and now into Nikita. I tried Psych but ask why did the first two shows have to be so stupid? The Mentalist is better.
3. Read a real newspaper cover to cover. I am not talking about reading on line, but on real fish wrap. There is a smell, a feel, and real ink residue that ends up on your fingers which has been lost via laptop, iPad, and iPhone. Coming home from San Francisco waiting to get on board our Southwest flight I looked around and nobody had a newspaper and everybody had a device. That is good news for the trees.
4. Pick any subject and Wikipedia it. Once there on Wikipedia follow all the blue words. The blue word rabbit trails are amazing. It is very educational. More so than text books since I found my son's economics book under a pile of abandoned papers of mine last week. So Wiki "Economics" and discover why our global economics are in a mess.
5. Follow all your kids and family on Twitter and Facebook. Calmly watch, read, and learn and when the time is right post a really snarky and funny comment. It is so wrong to post a mature comment from a 50+ person on a media designed for Taylor Swift fans. It'll prove to your kids and grandkids wisdom is acquired and not learned. It is like the house and stuff surrounding me right now; acquired. How? Who knows?
6. Visit an Occupy site before it fizzles out. I had the chance to visit the Occupy Cal folks at Cal Berkeley last week. Now here is the thing about Occupy Cal; the faculty, staff, regents, and president of Cal are all just rolling their eyes since truly the "establishment" at Berkeley all have BTDT! Once the powers that be put down the cabernet and brownies they should go teach the current protesters how the pros did it back in the day.
7. If you are going to visit Occupy then go to a Glenn Beck / Sarah Palin / Tea Party rally as well. There is nothing more useful as a well-rounded fair and balanced education when you get back to watching Roku and posting on Twitter and Facebook. Then again fair and balanced has come to mean agreeing with the Beck Palin Party and sending Occupy back where they came from: the suburbs.
8. Getting real for a moment you MUST play more golf. If you already play, play more. If you never have played, well, play now. It is winter in North America and I know cold and rainy is not conducive to playing but the solutions to the temporal problems of life are on the golf course. With that said I point out our current President has been reported to have played more golf than predecessors. This HAS to be a good thing putting him in the middle. Radical Republicans alternate between criticizing him for golfing and rejoicing that he is not at the office. Radical Democrats criticize him for partaking in the bourgeois activity of the elite. Do what the President does, play more golf!
9. Procrastinate on Christmas shopping. Wait! Black Friday and Cyber Monday are all hyperbole. They are way overrated. Here is my review for the hot gift items for Christmas 2010...
10. Investigate the meaning of this sentence: "Christ died for our sins and rose from the dead."
My blog are what George Carlin called "Brain Drippings". I am serious about Jesus Christ. I am serious about my wife and family. I am serious about golf. Look for more drippings on www.davidogrin.com.
1. Learn to play percussion so that you can get the job doing the Progressive Insurance Jingle. You know, "Life from Progressive...(ding)...Tips from Flo". I wonder how much that cymbal player makes. It has to be $40,000 a year just to be on cue during the commercial. Which brings up the ultimate question, who would you choose; Flo or Neanderthal Guy?
2. Buy a Roku and hook it up to your TV then watch all the really bad shows ever created. I am partial to Netflix and have watched all of Grey's Anatomy, Lie to Me, and now into Nikita. I tried Psych but ask why did the first two shows have to be so stupid? The Mentalist is better.
3. Read a real newspaper cover to cover. I am not talking about reading on line, but on real fish wrap. There is a smell, a feel, and real ink residue that ends up on your fingers which has been lost via laptop, iPad, and iPhone. Coming home from San Francisco waiting to get on board our Southwest flight I looked around and nobody had a newspaper and everybody had a device. That is good news for the trees.
4. Pick any subject and Wikipedia it. Once there on Wikipedia follow all the blue words. The blue word rabbit trails are amazing. It is very educational. More so than text books since I found my son's economics book under a pile of abandoned papers of mine last week. So Wiki "Economics" and discover why our global economics are in a mess.
5. Follow all your kids and family on Twitter and Facebook. Calmly watch, read, and learn and when the time is right post a really snarky and funny comment. It is so wrong to post a mature comment from a 50+ person on a media designed for Taylor Swift fans. It'll prove to your kids and grandkids wisdom is acquired and not learned. It is like the house and stuff surrounding me right now; acquired. How? Who knows?
6. Visit an Occupy site before it fizzles out. I had the chance to visit the Occupy Cal folks at Cal Berkeley last week. Now here is the thing about Occupy Cal; the faculty, staff, regents, and president of Cal are all just rolling their eyes since truly the "establishment" at Berkeley all have BTDT! Once the powers that be put down the cabernet and brownies they should go teach the current protesters how the pros did it back in the day.
7. If you are going to visit Occupy then go to a Glenn Beck / Sarah Palin / Tea Party rally as well. There is nothing more useful as a well-rounded fair and balanced education when you get back to watching Roku and posting on Twitter and Facebook. Then again fair and balanced has come to mean agreeing with the Beck Palin Party and sending Occupy back where they came from: the suburbs.
8. Getting real for a moment you MUST play more golf. If you already play, play more. If you never have played, well, play now. It is winter in North America and I know cold and rainy is not conducive to playing but the solutions to the temporal problems of life are on the golf course. With that said I point out our current President has been reported to have played more golf than predecessors. This HAS to be a good thing putting him in the middle. Radical Republicans alternate between criticizing him for golfing and rejoicing that he is not at the office. Radical Democrats criticize him for partaking in the bourgeois activity of the elite. Do what the President does, play more golf!
9. Procrastinate on Christmas shopping. Wait! Black Friday and Cyber Monday are all hyperbole. They are way overrated. Here is my review for the hot gift items for Christmas 2010...
10. Investigate the meaning of this sentence: "Christ died for our sins and rose from the dead."
My blog are what George Carlin called "Brain Drippings". I am serious about Jesus Christ. I am serious about my wife and family. I am serious about golf. Look for more drippings on www.davidogrin.com.
Written on Friday, 16 December 2011 10:33 by David Ogrin
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