A PERFECT WORLD

[boxcarOkie]

Not that long ago, a friend of mine over lunch said to me, "I am having one of those days."  And I just smiled, I know the feeling.  I have been having a couple of WEEKS of those days.  So I can relate.  I also recently mentioned to this engineer friend of mine that I get slightly crazed when things are less than perfect. To my surprise he looked at me with a crooked little smile and said, "Oh, but things are perfect."

A few days later our conversation continued.

This time he told me that the universe was expanding at exactly the right speed to keep it from flying apart or collapsing back into itself. He also noted that the subatomic makeup of our bodies was calibrated so magnificently that were it off by less than one percent, two human bodies approaching one another would release enough energy to blow the Earth out of its orbit.

And consider this: if a plane loses its wings at thirty thousand feet, and DOESN'T fall to the ground, then we would be living in a world where fat people could stick rockets in their a** and fly to Miami for a three-day weekend.

Now, if you're like me and don't find that to be an improvement on the laws of nature, then I think you have to agree with my friend -- things are perfect.

You ever look at that "one thing" that you KNOW needs doing, but you say to yourself, "Ah, I will get it later."  And then later comes, and you are not only miffed, but surprised it is lying there, part of it on the floor and the other part of it on the bed, and you say to yourself, "I sure wish I had fixed that."

How many times have you said the very exact same thing?

Eight or nine days ago in Holbrook, Arizona I was lying in the bed and I noticed that one of the screws in the overhead had shaken loose and it was "kind of sagging on me."  I thought I ought to get out the screwdrivers and fix that, but I was tired, it was late, and I had a lot of miles to put down before I could rest. 

It would be there waiting for me when I got home I reasoned to myself in my tired mind and I let it go.

Yesterday after returning from the dump-station some eleven miles away, I noticed it lying on the bed and the other part of it in the floor. (Another testament of the conditions of roads in this country, this time Oklahoma) 

I should have fixed it when I first noticed it, but I didn't and now I have a mess to contend with.  Sort  of like windshield wipers, they groan, and they scream, they are rock hard.  You say to yourself, "I sure need to replace those." 

Then it stops raining and you think .... well, y'know the rest of it dontcha?



So it appears as if I will have another perfect weekend, shared in the shop with my bus.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let your old bus spend it for you.  The next time I hook up with my Engineer friend, I am going to ask him about "Black Holes" as I seriously believe my 28 year old hoopie is imploding on me.

Have a Great Weekend ...

BCO

[JohnEd]

So you expect a grown-up such as I to believe you only have "one" of those projects?  Really?

Good post and better pics...

John

[boxcarOkie]

So you expect a grown-up such as I to believe you only have "one" of those projects?  Really?

Good post and better pics...

John

Uhhhhhhhh shore, I guess?  Right now the weekend is working out just swell, fixed the lawn tractor today and the bus tomorrow, Chinese Food lined out for Sunday afternoon ...... try and beat that.

BCO

[bobofthenorth]

I'm still trying to figure out why flying to Miami on a bottle rocket would be such a bad thing.

[boxcarOkie]

I'm still trying to figure out why flying to Miami on a bottle rocket would be such a bad thing.

We were there two years ago, it is kinda like "God's Waiting Room" if you know what I mean?

BCO

[fe2_o3]

    "I'm still trying to figure out why flying to Miami on a bottle rocket would be such a bad thing."


     I'm with Bob... With the price of fuel, that's about the only way we'll get there...Cable

[bobofthenorth]

I'm still trying to figure out why flying to Miami on a bottle rocket would be such a bad thing.

We were there two years ago, it is kinda like "God's Waiting Room" if you know what I mean?
BCO

OK - I understand - wall to wall coffin shoppers.

How about 2 bottle rockets and we'll go to Mazatlan?

[boxcarOkie]

How about 2 bottle rockets and we'll go to Mazatlan?

It is nice this time of the year, kind of campy, if you hang with the wrong crowd.  I would much prefer the tree house, an ample store of banana's, in Belize.

But to each his own ... right?

BCO