the absolute best thing to me about having this t
ime off work is the ability to think. To run a complete concept through my brain without interruption...work confuses me...i think best when the process is 'natural'--a eureka moment, flowing like a small stream-- rather than an 'edison' style system of a machine hammering away at a problem or concept until it is solved. i believe that's the reason i make large, varied, to-do lists so that i can work on the project that i can accomplish the most on that day rather than forcing
myself to work on a job that i realize i am not suited for at that particular time.....this appears to be the system that accomplishes the max, but this 'natural thinking man' process also requires the utmost free time to put into accurate effect.
ime off work is the ability to think. To run a complete concept through my brain without interruption...work confuses me...i think best when the process is 'natural'--a eureka moment, flowing like a small stream-- rather than an 'edison' style system of a machine hammering away at a problem or concept until it is solved. i believe that's the reason i make large, varied, to-do lists so that i can work on the project that i can accomplish the most on that day rather than forcing
myself to work on a job that i realize i am not suited for at that particular time.....this appears to be the system that accomplishes the max, but this 'natural thinking man' process also requires the utmost free time to put into accurate effect.
i've just about completely finished restoring my land rover. Now this is a series three land rover---from the "i once had a farm in africa" land rover days, not the "look at me i am rich" land rover of today---I
was driving it around town and it is remarkable how this vehicle makes passing drivers and pedestrians just, well just smile--it was extremely interesting to watch--of course the truck's (and my matching) age has a great deal to do with the smiling. i believe it is because it's a real truck--and there are no more real trucks
...it's slow, economical (with a small 4 cylinder engine) very, very, very british looking and covered with my opinionated stickers for peace, tibet freedom,save the earth and so forth....it is nice to drive it about, remind people of another time and distant places, smiling back and waving...very strange.......
I have been reading "Bowling alone". it will probably 
rank out as a book which will have a tremendous impact on the way i think. Now i can't necessarily recommend it to everyone---most people glaze over at the sight of a single bar graph, there are pages and pages of them in bowling alone---but to me this book is incredibly interesting. Im not finished with it yet, but I'll still give it an A+ and recommend it 
if you like to think about society and where we might be headed and why------The basic question asked by "bowling alone" is why did society change at some point in the mid 1960's from social groups being very highly attended by private citizens---- to now where only 20 some% of americans are involved in any kind of private, outside of work group endeavor? This means all groups across all boundries---- political parties, PTA,Habitat for humanity, civic groups, reading groups, sewing circles, blahblahblah you name it---in the early 60's the graph lines for participation in anything outside of the home just went down,down, down......and have not yet stopped falling.....along with this decline, comes a decline in social capital between individual americans-----how we do business on a daily basis and how we interact as people. Putnam covers an incredible range of possibilities as to the why of it---- from generational attitude changes to television to increased work requirements to women in the work
place---the book advises that we are becoming a social state of reduced human contact, where "officals" must provide direction where agreement used to, very individualistic and fluid with others,and demonstrating a lack of overall purpose with large groups of individuals merely inhabiting the same physical location----but as i am reading this there is one issue i thought of that he has not covered yet...actually a very simple thing--- because americans used to do something, does not mean they actually liked doing it....for example peer pressure made americans of the 1930's and 1940's accept many,many social requirements, must do's, that my gene
ration immediately blew off-----alot of things that were done previously due to the "man in the gray flannel suit syndrome" just because society overall agreed, does not imply that people wanted this item or thought process.... my great great great grandmother may not have wanted to attend the annual village festival in the old homeland, but if she did'nt show at the demanded,appointed time in the village square she may have been accused of witchcraft and had to go through that whole monty python, village judgement thing---about floating...or not floating? What we as a people may have done, does not indicate at all what we like, or want to do----interesting---
rank out as a book which will have a tremendous impact on the way i think. Now i can't necessarily recommend it to everyone---most people glaze over at the sight of a single bar graph, there are pages and pages of them in bowling alone---but to me this book is incredibly interesting. Im not finished with it yet, but I'll still give it an A+ and recommend it 
if you like to think about society and where we might be headed and why------The basic question asked by "bowling alone" is why did society change at some point in the mid 1960's from social groups being very highly attended by private citizens---- to now where only 20 some% of americans are involved in any kind of private, outside of work group endeavor? This means all groups across all boundries---- political parties, PTA,Habitat for humanity, civic groups, reading groups, sewing circles, blahblahblah you name it---in the early 60's the graph lines for participation in anything outside of the home just went down,down, down......and have not yet stopped falling.....along with this decline, comes a decline in social capital between individual americans-----how we do business on a daily basis and how we interact as people. Putnam covers an incredible range of possibilities as to the why of it---- from generational attitude changes to television to increased work requirements to women in the work
place---the book advises that we are becoming a social state of reduced human contact, where "officals" must provide direction where agreement used to, very individualistic and fluid with others,and demonstrating a lack of overall purpose with large groups of individuals merely inhabiting the same physical location----but as i am reading this there is one issue i thought of that he has not covered yet...actually a very simple thing--- because americans used to do something, does not mean they actually liked doing it....for example peer pressure made americans of the 1930's and 1940's accept many,many social requirements, must do's, that my gene
ration immediately blew off-----alot of things that were done previously due to the "man in the gray flannel suit syndrome" just because society overall agreed, does not imply that people wanted this item or thought process.... my great great great grandmother may not have wanted to attend the annual village festival in the old homeland, but if she did'nt show at the demanded,appointed time in the village square she may have been accused of witchcraft and had to go through that whole monty python, village judgement thing---about floating...or not floating? What we as a people may have done, does not indicate at all what we like, or want to do----interesting---
These the greatest---- Terraplana shoes...http://www.terraplana.com/home.aspx made of recycled materials including cargo ship container covers, recycled ru
bber & kelvar vests for soles...Terraplana has their own very, very interesting physical shoe design concept. I've written about these shoes previously...but they are so really very unique and...the most comfortable shoe i've ever had on my feet, in ordering a second pair i had to write about the company and the shoe again..people love commenting on them---a type of ninja elf,urban attack shoe.....i just ordered my second pair of terraplana's lace up's this time, in brown from http://www.zappos.com/n/p/p/7216571.html if you are into something different foot wise and want to put recycling into some kind of actual,viable useage, you need to look at this company and their shoes.. wearing my recycled shoes, driving my hybrid, i therefore publish..............
bber & kelvar vests for soles...Terraplana has their own very, very interesting physical shoe design concept. I've written about these shoes previously...but they are so really very unique and...the most comfortable shoe i've ever had on my feet, in ordering a second pair i had to write about the company and the shoe again..people love commenting on them---a type of ninja elf,urban attack shoe.....i just ordered my second pair of terraplana's lace up's this time, in brown from http://www.zappos.com/n/p/p/7216571.html if you are into something different foot wise and want to put recycling into some kind of actual,viable useage, you need to look at this company and their shoes.. wearing my recycled shoes, driving my hybrid, i therefore publish..............
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