The Blog Of A Poor Lost Soul

I live on a side street. My side street is often used by drivers to avoid the traffic lights on Washington Avenue here in Portland.  Because of that, we have a lot of people flying down the road like their ass was on fire.   I get it.  The lights in this town suck.  I could go on for hours about it. It can take you half an hour to get a quarter of a mile. But that doesn't mean you come down my street driving irradically.  Yet people do everyday.  They ignore the posted speed limit. They ignore the flashing school 🏫 zone lights.  They ignore the fact that only one car can fit through in some places at a time because people are parked on the side of the road.    This morning somebody in a Chevy Suburban went flying past another car who wasn't driving fast enough.  The guy had to jerk back to the right to avoid hitting a parked car.   What a shit show.

I have Disney Plus as part of my Hulu bundle.  I watched all of the Star Wars movies in order, finishing them about three months ago.  Although I watched them to the end, I shut them off before the final credits played through.  Still, I get the following emails. Um, I left off about a minute into the credits.  I'm not interested.  Send me some emails with some value.  What's new?  Recommended things to watch.  OMG!!! Honestly, if I don't delete them in bulk, I just skim through most of these when I'm looking for something good to watch.   People just need better things to do.  Like fixing the algorithms.  

Everything is here one minute, then gone the next, so why does it matter?   It matters in the moment.  That's where we spend our time.  In the moment we can dwell on the past.  In the moment, we can anticipate the future.  Or we can just live.  That is the trick.   The future is going to come no matter what we do, and the past has come and gone already and there is nothing we can do to change it.  We deal with the consequences of the past in the moment.  That can ruin the moment if we let it.  Or we can make happy memories that we can look back on and smile and be happy.  Or we can await the future moments with anxiety. It's all done in the moment where we find ourselves now. It is what it is.

There is this old guy a couple houses up the street, who is stands outside with a hose, watering his lawn.  He does it every day, even if it rained the night before. It's just weird.