Surrender

I have been lurking on several blogs for the last month. The content of most of them makes my Midwestern life seem boring. Maybe that is why I am writing so much less than I thought I would. I have been very busy at work this past month. I expected to be, but I still thought I would have energy to write. I was supposed to go on a date with my wife tonight, but we got snowed out. Too much snow to be driving around just to have dinner without the kids. Perhaps the real reason I have been writing less goes back to my second posting. I got a TiVo last weekend and I have been glued to the television ever since. My brother-in-law likes to claim that TiVo is simultaneously the best invention in the world and the scourge of Satan. If television is an opiate then TiVo is taking it by injection. I think I may not have enough internal angst to write a blog. I don't want to spend my time critiquing the government. There is of course plenty to criticize and anyone is free to do so, but I don't know of a better one in the real world. I am leaning towards starting over completely on this blog and finding a focus.

Fuzzy Logic

I have been wearing glasses for about ten years now. My father was a pilot in the air force and only just started needing reading glasses so I grew up thinking I had perfect vision and always would. I am a fair weather glasses wearer. I usually only wear them at work or if I am going to a movie. I have been saying for about ten years, "I don't really need glasses." Given the amount of squinting I have done in the last two weeks I could be wrong about that. I lost my glasses in Texas. I normally wouldn't even take them on vacation, but I thought there might be time for a movie while I was there. I did not discover they were gone until I had been there a couple days and my wife wanted to show my sister how out of style I was. Both the prescription and the style were out dated so I do need new glasses. I am going this weekend to pick them out. This means I have about another week of leaning in towards the computer screen. It is clear to me now that I do need glasses and I will be happy to see again.