Blog 23 : 2/15/2010 : Too Much Snow?

Mark: i think your days between blogging are going up exponentially
at your current rate, you should be done with your 1000 post goal in about 27.4 years

This sadly is very true, and while I would like to blame my lapse on the snow, sadly I must just admit to my laziness. Home for a whole week due to the snow and I didn't even pick up my blog. Pathetic on my part. But I can only continue to try, and try I shall!

But MAN, that was ALOT of SNOW. I had to dig my car out over three times and when I say dig out I mean Excavate. It got to the point where I was "old manning it" which is to say I would hobble over, get a shovel full, and hobble over to the discard pile and tentatively tip it out to save my back the strain. Big Fail there. And even as I write it is starting to snow AGAIN. Who knows what I'm going to do when summer gets here and there is no snow to watch. I'll have to take up bird watching or something it will be ridiculous.

But needless to say the snow days were not entirely wasted. Lots of exercise at the gym, and of course, shoveling snow. Had people in and out of the house a lot for social times which kept me amused. Played TOO MANY video games. Big fail on my part there. Went to Wisp Ski resort this past weekend with the in laws and went snowshoeing and generally lounged about the cabin. Quite the relaxing weekend all in all. The snowshoeing was a bit of an interesting experience because the snow was so deep that even snow shoes didn't work. I was able to find one drift that was mid way up my chest. Tried to play around on the ice a bit and failed cause the snow was insulating the ice and it was consequently like walking on crazy slush so I gave that one up out of self preservation. Hmm, what else. Watched some of the Olympics so that was interesting. I must say the people who devote their lives aiming for the Olympics are a complete mystery to me. What I mean by that is, they put EVERYTHING into it, without thinking about ROTH IRA's or savings bonds, or retirement or mortgages, it just seems to me it is just THAT goal. And even if you make it, that means you've peaked at like 18. Where do you go from there?? And what happens if you fail?? I mean, what do you have going for you then? Apparently a bunch of the winners are rich though I do not understand how they become rich aside from the occasional endorsement commercial by like McDonald's or Subway. THAT by the way I found hideously retarded. Like Frankenstein Monster on a go cart retarded. Every Olympics I see a McDonald's commercial where they claim to be the number 1 food choice of Olympic Athletes. The lie is so big I go blind for about 20 minutes every time (Hence why I can't listen to the radio while driving when the Olympics are going on. Self preservation again I'm afraid). But really, REALLY? Can they even begin to believe that is true? And on top of that WHAT person THEN goes out to eat at McDonald's because they saw that commercial? The only thing I can imagine is some slightly dim child whose dream is to compete in the Olympics believing everything he hears, and then only finds himself falling DRASTICALLY short during the Olympic qualifiers for Diving when he weighs in at a whopping 500 pounds and a confused look on his face. HARD FAIL.
But needless to say the Olympics makes me think about life and how one can devote themselves to something so whole heartedly. It is impressive. And I desire that ability to devote. I can't really recall the saying, but the one where ... oh wait, Ignorance is Bliss. I believe this whole heartedly. The most small minded and lifestyle ignorant people I've known in the past are often the happiest. I often envy their simple minded view of the world, and while I would never give up my complicated view, it is something that leads me to introspection. I feel Olympic Athletes are able to create their own ignorance. To create a limited scope of the world for themselves so they focus on only one thing. I would be interested to see what an Olympic Athlete thinks about things like retirement and careers and taxes. Ah, ignorance is bliss. Makes me wish I had lived it up more when I was 10.

Oh well. Back to the grind.


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