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My Navel Gazing Post for the Month Maybe it sounds obsessive, but I am always reconsidering and re-evaluating what I think and how I feel about my parents� divorce. At this point, it�s been almost 30 years since they split, but I still find myself dwelling on what happened and how it has affected my brother, my sister, and me. During these last 14 years I�ve received a new and different perspective on these past events as they have been filtered through my own experiences as a husband and father. I can�t help but compare and contrast my own marriage with the failure of my parents�. It is because of this perpetual naval gazing and introspection that I find an article like this one at the New York Times so particularly fascinating. A wife refused to accept her husband�s decision to quit on their marriage, but interpreted his request for a divorce as something else. Her response was unique and unconventional by today�s standards of lawyering up and a quick exit. Even though it appears things have worked out for them at the end, I can�t help but wonder if going through that ordeal will make their relationship stronger or introduce a larger specter of doubt. Regardless, I found the writer�s observations about the source of personal happiness and relationships interesting and good fodder for my own constant self-evaluations. And then I wonder how things may have been different if my father and mother had read her article 30 years ago. Labels: Observation posted by Brendan | 9:36 PM | permanent link
Being An Adult Sometimes this is exactly how I feel - like I'm pretending to be an adult.  via xkcdLabels: comic strips, Observation posted by Brendan | 11:10 AM | permanent link
My Hot Car Weather.com has an interesting slide show that illustrates how quickly, and dangerously hot, the inside of a car can become during hot weather.  In 90 minutes they have the inside of a vehicle reaching almost 140 degrees. Now I know that the rate of temperature increase isn't exponential, otherwise the temp inside my car that sits under the blazing sun all day in the train station parking lot would be topping out at something like 1,000 degrees, but it still makes me wonder what conditions I�m subjecting myself to when I jump in the car to drive home. My car bakes in the sun for over nine hours. When I open the door it is blistering hot inside, the driver-side window doesn�t roll down, which means I can�t air out the interior very quickly, and the air condition � bless its little heart � just doesn�t seem to have the umph anymore to really cool things down. The drive home in weather like we are experiencing now is always more of an endurance test than just a journey. Labels: General, Observation posted by Brendan | 4:57 PM | permanent link
Dumb People Get Wet  When I woke up this morning at 5:45 am I noticed that it was raining.When I was downstairs at 6:15 am making my lunch and eating breakfast I noticed that it was raining. When I was in my car driving to the train station at 6:40 am I noticed that it was raining. When I parked my car at the train station at 7:00 am I noticed that it was raining. It was painfully clear to me that it was raining this morning and that if I didn�t take the necessary precautions I would end up very wet walking from my car to the train station. That�s why I was wearing a jacket and carrying my umbrella when I got out of the car. So I wonder what the dude walking through the parking lot with no jacket and no umbrella and an increasing water-soaked shirt was noticing all morning while he was preparing to leave for the train station? I would have asked him, but he was wearing headphones and was preoccupied with trying to figure out how he could keep his Walkman radio and his newspaper dry. Labels: Observation, Rant posted by Brendan | 2:43 PM | permanent link |
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