Traveling

Well, here comes a blog entry from 31,000 feet. How does that happen one may ask? Ok, probably no one reading this is asking that question, since you more than likely already know that I'm flying on this here Monday the 16th. So far, so good, pretty smooth flying as they say. I don't have any wood to knock on or I would. This may be a pretty long blog entry too, since my flight is a bit over three hours long. I say that, but I'm sure I'm just a few sentences from wrapping it up and loading some games or movie on my lappy to distract myself. Although, now that I look around and see people with their eyes closed, reading a book, or just sitting there gazing into space while sipping their club soda, I realize that I didn't like guys like me before
when I was flying. Let me clarify that. I used to not like guys or gals that whipped out a laptop right after the fasten seat belt sign went out. Why? Because I wanted to have one myself. If you know me (and since you're reading this you do) I'm a total computer gnerd (pronounced guh-nerd, meaning a half-nerd half-geek...what's the difference between a geek and a nerd? A nerd is just an all around smart guy that has a higher than normal intelligence, while lacking in other social and coolness skills. A geek is a technology junkie, someone who knows way too much about home-theatre or digital stuff, usually focused on computers though. And a gnerd is a mixture of the two.) So being a gnerd, I have so many uses for computers. I load computers till they are ready to pop with programs and stuff, then buy more memory and load some more.
Hmmm, now that I write that out, it makes me think....I'm kind of an electronic pack-rat. I say this because I know I'm a real world pack-rat. I hate throwing things away, and I end up with much more junk and trinkets than any person should. I've gotten over collecting useless stuff a bit in my life by figuring out the following. How much is that thing I'm keeping worth? Let's use a pencil box for an example. Maybe it's worth five dollars. And you know that old saying, “As soon as you throw something away, then you need it.” Then I figure, would the tidiness and extra space I would have be worth five dollars if I did throw it away and ended up needed that thing and have to buy a new one? In the case of a five dollar pencil box….if I haven’t used it in awhile, then yeah, it would probably be ok to throw away. A couple hundred dollar tv sitting in the corner not being used, that’s a different story. But, back onto the electronic pack-rat. I love to read, and I usually end up reading tech magazines, computer articles and the like, so I’m always discovering new programs to do this or that. I end up loading them all up on the computer, some to be used, some to be forgotten, hidden away in that dusty, dark back corner of the hard drive never to be seen again. At least with computer programs, they don’t take up physical space and make clutter, although they do bog down computers eventually, leaving a good spring cleaning the only answer. So, I guess that’s about it for now, I think there’s about an hour left on this flight, then about an hour on the next. Maybe, on the ride home, I’ll take a look at continuing A Grim Reaping since there’s been interest by at least two readers. Wow. That’s close to one hundred percent positive feedback.