Is Today Tuesday?

This post will be a disappointment. It will not talk about the, what was it? Oh, the election. Also, I will continue to be kind of a dweeb, especially since I still have almost zero time to do a danged thing other than – be billable, work on the store, and be a parent.

Not that given time I could come up with much better, but then again, it would be nice to find out.

I don’t know if you’ve heard, but starting up a business is hard. I don’t even have time to pay attention to what is going on, and feel bad because this election looks so interesting.

Two thoughts there:
1. Reminds me of the awesome Lovesac video on how that company started. I have it on my drive but it’s too big for YouTube, and though the story isn’t nearly as interesting read as heard and seen, you can scan it here.

2. I really am enjoying finding out about politics via people’s status updates on Facebook.

I really like Facebook and find it a useful tool for both wasting time, reconnecting with people from the past, and even getting some business going. I mean, isn’t it totally awesome?

Currently I’m swirling around my various phases of historical me. I’ve reconnected with a few high school friends, who I have hardly ever spoken to at all since those days. I’ve reconnected with college buds, and that is most awesome. I’ve reconnected with people from the few years after college, which was quite refreshing, and then there are all the Austin friends as well as the current work dudes.

Past Present and Future are totally fascinating and I’d really like to understand more about this idea of Time. I don’t have time now, and meanwhile I feel like I’m in a big bath of bubbles of time. Oh there’s 1993′s pink bubble, and that’s how I was then, and those are the people and I can think about it and be right back in it. And these are the lessons I know I learned back then, and here’s the lessons I’m learning that I already knew but didn’t know I knew, that I discounted.

Simply, I have a new perspective and love looking at my life with these new glasses.

I know I’ll get bored soon, and you may be bored now, but maybe it’s happening to you too? I know that there was a big bump in facebook usage a few months ago and I’d bet the majority of us got on back then, so may be having a similar experience.

I think our generation is having a very unique time with this whole facebook thing. Half of us were online at least half of our lives, so there was this dividing line that is now being crossed.

Funny, de Schmog made it to the digital age, but my favorite band from college, just a couple of years previous, did not.

It is the weirdest thing to know about this, and have one of the members from that band go to my cookie store and have a cookie with his child.

Maybe none of this is weird and it’s just as simple as what would have been writing a letter to someone decades ago, but I think that the quickness of it all and having everybody on at the same time is what is the strange part.

Now I can cross-reference my friends. Were my friends in high school Obama lovers like my friends in Houston? How come none of the people I know are for McCain? Or are they just being quiet? Why don’t the McCain people speak up more? Maybe it’s because they aren’t there.

Just goes to prove the research bit I read awhile back that the political side you are on when you are a child is the same you will be when you die. Isn’t that strange?

Huh.

Back to work….