Idle Ramblings of a Slightly Mad Man

Where Everybody Knows Your Name by Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart Angelo - Cheers Lyrics

Making your way in the world today takes everything you’ve got.
Taking a break from all your worries, sure would help a lot.

You wanna go where people know,
people are all the same,
You wanna go where everybody knows
your name.

I have a favorite place I like to go every Sunday for breakfast.  I have been going there for over a decade.  I love going there.  Everyone that works there knows me and I know them.  They are not just employees of this establishment, they are friends too.  We share with each other stories of our families, of sports, of local events, we share feelings of comfort in knowing each other. 

It is a place that reminds me of the show Cheers which is why I posted the lyrics of the opening theme above.  Some folks go to resturants for the food.  Here the food is good but it is the employees and the owners that are above any five star resturant. 

It has just become a tradition on Sundays that we, my family and I, get up and head to our little favorite resturant.  We order the same items each week.  The waitstaff  knows our drink order and brings them without our asking.  I enjoy the feeling of knowing that this is a place where the people are all the same and everyone knows our name.

 This place is ironically called Memories. 

A perfect name because I have so many of them in that place.

I was listening to a conversation with my coworkers this morning and they were discussing theirselves.  Each sentence was spoken to outdo the other person.  As I was listening it got me to thinking about how we have really become a society of individuals. 

In this day and age it seems that we have become a group of people focused on being the best at blogging, texting, You-Tubeing, My-Spacing, etc….  I wouldn’t say gone but nearly fogotten are competing with the neighbors, better dressed, better cars, etc… We are so focused on these type of individual tasks that we have ailenated ourselves from focusing on becoming better at things that could bring society together as a group.  It seems that social activities are becoming harder and harder to find.  Friends and neighbors used to play cards, vacation together or just sitoutside on a summer evening.  Kids would run up and down the streets playing football, baseball and kickball or catch fireflys.  These things are all but lost anymore.  Now we sequester ourselves behind computers.  Our socializing comes from forums and chatrooms. 

How did it become this way?  Are we not letting our kids out out of fear of something might happen to them?  Are parents to absorbed in theirselves and their lives to take interest in their kids? 

 Going back to my co-workers conversation I didn’t once hear anyone while they were trying to out-do the other brag about any of their skills that involved a group activity that involved person to person contact without electronic means.  Not even a tall tale of picking a smoking hot babe at the bar last night.

This is the world we live in. 

What next?  What does one write when one has nothing to say? 

 Like I stated before, I am new to this.  I don’t know what the protocol is for blogging?  Do I have to write everyday?  What if I have nothing to say?

My mind is truely like a blank piece of paper.  Nothing is ever on it most of the time.  My wife will ask me what I am thinking and my response will be nothing.  It really is.  I think of nothing.  My wife used to say that everyone is always thinking of something, some tune, some event, something.  Me, I go blank.

 It is not a bad thing.  At least I don’t think so.  When I do have to focus on something I have no problems.  It is not like I space out or anything.  I just don’t have a thought going through my brain 24/7.

My wife is always thinking.  She will always have things going through her mind.  I am sure that most people do.  I am just not one of them. 

So I am sitting there reading the morning paper at my regular 7am sitting and I could not help but to think about Crow and her desire to have everyone to just use a square. It got me to thinking about my usage.

I wonder……………………………………. can I buy TP credits?

I am sure that everyone starts off like this.  Starting out with a “hello I’m new here” type of message.  I am no different. 

 Hello.  I am new here.

 I am not sure where I will go from here.  I think I will just blog with whatever I am thinking about at that moment. 

I am new to this blogging stuff.  I know it is something that has been going on for a while now.  I am just a little behind on the craze I guess.  So when I get a topic of thought that I think is interesting I guess I will post it.  Really this is an experiment for me.  Something new to try.

I realize that others will comment from time to time.  I am interested in what type of comments get generated by others.  I know that there are also a bunch of folks that will try to post comments that are mean and I am ready for that too.  It is what it is.  It won’t get to me.

So here it is.  My first post.