Greetings from summer Ponder the Thought, where the thoughts get a little less deep. Who had any idea that was even possible?
Excuse me for mailing the effort in on this column, but I’ve been busy watching World Cup soccer, because soccer people get mad if we don’t like their sport.
Ok. That’s a lie. I have not watched one single kick of World Cup soccer. Been watching bowling mostly.
The local television news spends an inordinate amount of time on soccer, new breweries, coffee shops, street cars, and pride festivals. The effort to make these things paramount in our social lives seems like a goal of local news. Not sure why, I suppose you have to be a deeper thinker than I to figure that out.
My wife likes those trendy coffee places. I don’t quite understand it. It appears to me that they take old fashioned black coffee and load it up with sugar, random flavors and a bunch of stuff that covers up the coffee taste and then charge you $12 for it. I suppose it is a good business model.
Craft breweries are also on my ponder list. I’m the guy they hate. “Give me something like Bud Light.” Seems to me like the Busch family spent a few generations getting beer right and now everyone is trying to improve it or tinker with something that already works. It’s like someone let all your eccentric uncles out of the basement with their home brew gear to sell us their brand. I also think it may be a law that you have to have sleeve tattoos and a good beard and suitable selection of flannel shirts to sell beer. Not sure if it is federal or state law, check with your local prosecutor’s office.
We had home brews years ago; we just didn’t pretend to like them or pay for them back then. We just looked at their brew gear and said, “cool,” hand me a Bud.
I have never been to a festival that celebrates my or anyone’s sexuality. I’m still a bit traumatized from junior high sexual health class taught by our football coach and it may take me a bit longer to fully embrace public celebrations of sexuality. Give me time to process that before you ask me to march in the streets.
I’m quite sure Coach just handed out some diagrams in sheet protectors and told us to pass them around as the classwork for sexual health. That took about 15 minutes and then we spent the rest of the time working on running the veer offense. Can’t ever spend too much time on the mesh point.
My memory of that is a bit sketchy. We might have had a lamination machine by then and those diagrams were laminated and not in sheet protectors. We were locked and loaded during my high school days. We had a ditto machine, laminator and an ample supply of high powered TRS-80 computers. We lacked nothing, which I suppose is evident by reading these columns.
(Guy Speckman can reached working on his TRS-80 computer at home)
