Motions Press Pause

March 9, 2008 Car Thoughts No Comments

Yesterday after I work, I went home ate some supper, gathered my dirty laundry and headed off for a peaceful weekend in Michigan. I love living in the city but there is definitely something about being able to get out and enjoy the solemness of country life. I was never really able to enjoy that as much before I had lived in such a metropolitan area. For me, the option of both is what makes living in one so exciting. It gives me the opportunity to have anything and everything I could need at my fingertips. But the options give me the opportunity to press the pause button, get away from the whole motion filled world, relax and recharge.

A lot of reading was finished this weekend.  I finally polished off The Google Story.  Which is essentially a biography on Google, it’s founders, inception and path to search/technological giant.  It’s a very interesting fast read (though I took an extraordinarily long hiatus in the middle of reading it).  If you are interested on the company at all then you should give it a shot.  A nice overview.  Then you can go and dig more in depth on a particular issue if you want.  I’m in the middle of a few other books at the moment.  Will let you in on those when I have finished.  Don’t want any outside opinions influencing my reading until I’m finished.  Once I have finished reading and talk about it, I welcome any and all thoughts and opinions.

Just a few thoughts from yet another car ride

January 29, 2008 Car Thoughts No Comments

So maybe I was a little to hard on the “stupid” people last time. I won’t go back and edit the blog now, but let’s just say that “clueless people are annoying”.

Now, let’s move on. Yesterday morning I realized something. I don’t know if it’s good or bad, but it is what it is. I have 40-45 more years of waking up every morning and going to work. That seems a bit daunting when you think about it like that. Instead I decided to break it down into more manageable chunks and say, that if you like what you do, does it really matter? That would make for a two part answer: Yes, it does really matter if you don’t like what you do and you don’t enjoy it. Then nearly all of those mornings will be miserable, and NO, it doesn’t matter if you like what you do, cause then it will be fun to wake up and go to work for the next half century.