DID YOU EVER:?

DID YOU EVER:

Did you ever sit and read or watch tv or just daydream, and suddenly weird phrases spring to mind? I have, and usually I just let them flow on through, just as though it was a babbling brook, that you sit beside on a warm summer day. While doing so, you watch the skitter bugs as the skate across the water, and the Dragon Flys hover and flash from flower to flower. Tadpoles are flashing here and there, while crawdads wait to pounce on an unwary fish or tadpoles. In the meantime, these weird phrases and sentences go babbling on. Here is an example of one of my babbling s;

"Here I sit on my tush,
watching Rango on my TV
wasting my time as usual,
Wishing instead, I was in the bush."

As you can see, it sort of makes sense, and it sorta doesn't make sense. I was actually watching the movie "Rango" which was rather funny, and of course a complete waste of time. But I think that sometimes, a person has to waste time, or at least appear to waste time.

Over the years I found out that taking time out to relax and let your mind wander, is actually good therapy. During these periods, I found that the solution to a problem, would present itself, and usually two or even three different solutions would be presented.

At other times, relaxing or even doing something entirely different from what I usually did would help me to relieve stress. During my working years, I was always a hard and diligent worker. Since I was always working in the Electronics and/or Space Industry, I had to keep ahead of the curve when it came to technology. During my 45 years in the Technology Sector, I was constantly learning; I subscribed to every free technical magazine, bulletin, catalog, and newsletter I could get my hands on. I'm talking about every phase and product of manufacturing and testing I could find. When I talk about products, I'm talking about pretty much everything, including, plastics manufacturing, metal stamping and fabricating, adhesives and chemical products, glass, resistors, capacitors, diodes, transistors, micro circuits, Integrated Circuits, audio equipment, test equipment, motors, drive shafts, drive and driven gears, machinery of all kinds, tv's, monitors, computers, and much, much more. And yes, I read and/or reviewed all of this material, which is how I was able to keep up with and usually ahead of the progress of technology over the years. Of course none of this includes all of the Quality Engineering literature that I subscribed to. In addition, I attended every product and technology show anywhere in the country as often as I could. There were two companies I worked for that assigned me and two other people the task of being the presenters of our companies products at these shows, every year. Here is a link to a current Technology Problem in the "Networking Protocols" currently having problems dealing with Open Flow products and "Cloud" usage; http://www.informationweek.com/infrastructure/management/virtualizations-urgent-next-step-openflo/231001833

I was very often described and called a "wiseass or smartass" because I usually had an answer to most any problem people would bring up during various meetings and/or product reviews.

My point in mentioning all of this is the fact that even when I wasn't actually working on my job responsibilities, I was reading and thus learning all of the time. I even brought a great deal of the literature home and read it there, after taking care of all the various chores I had to do at home.

All of this explanation leads back to my original, "Did you Ever"? just relax, daydream, take a hike, work in the garden, build a toy or piece of furniture, work on your car, or whatever?

Now! my question to you my readers is: "Did you ever?"

God Bless us all and Happy Thanksgiving,  from the gahillbilly.

 
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