Do you take a vacation when a project you’re assigned to is in trouble at work? …when a family member is sick and in the hospital? …when money is tight and you are having trouble paying your bills?
N-O!
Then why the hell should the United States go on a gas tax holiday for the summer months?
In October 1999, 34-year-old Nicholas White took an ordinary cigarette break. As he returned from his smoke break, he boarded the elevator to take him back to his office on the 43rd floor of the McGraw-Hill Building in Rockefeller Center.
And there, in that elevator, he spent the next 41 hours of his life, trapped, alone in the elevator.
And his entire 41-hour ordeal was caught on security cameras. (YouTube)
He’s remarkably calm throughout the entire experience! Amazingly, he doesn’t even light up yet the New Yorker article states he had more cigarettes left but he didn’t want to be caught smoking! Further, he didn’t have a cellphone or watch, so he had no idea how much time was passing.
I am absolutely FLOORED (in a good way) right now.
I had a very frustrating and rather expensive order glitch occur on Amazon.com just now, whereby I ended up purchasing THREE 12-box units of baby wipes at $34 EACH. I only wanted one unit of 12-boxes, not THREE.
I used the email contact for the first duplicate order but received no confirmation. By the third, I said screw this, I am calling Amazon.com.
I hit the phone contact option and it had me enter MY phone number and when I wanted them to call, with the DEFAULT option as IMMEDIATELY (wonderful–because that is what the avg. customer is going to want to do; if we wanted to wait, we’d be using email!)
Maybe if everyone else in the world really wanted to send a message to China, we’d stop buying all the products produced and manufactured there?
Wait, that would actually require personal (and national) sacrifice and accountability, along with *gasp* economic impliciations.
Yeah, you’re right, it’s better to protest one of the only remaining, enduring symbols of world peace and our collective membership in the human race–the Olympic Games.
Why the post? Oh, I was just surprised when I received a UPS tracking number for my second Chumby because it’s coming to Texas directly from the factory/warehouse in CHINA –
Whimper after too long out of the saddle of my road bike?
I am sore, but I am so glad I got off my fat arse and rode with Justin and brother-in-law, David, today.
GPS track, and my heartrate & cadence data for today’s ride
According to MotionBased.com, where I log all my outdoor rides, it has been two MONTHS since my last ride–how in the hell did that happen? I did some indoor training rides since then, but they don’t show up on MotionBased.com to help my “motivation through publication” since their site is a little crippled in that it won’t log rides that lack a GPS track, even if they have cadence (and thus speed + distance) and heart rate data.
Both of these are from Twitter, with thanks to soultravelers3:
Dewitt Jones, a former National Geographic photographer, on why we should “celebrate what’s right in the world.”
And an inspiring travelblogue (travelogue + blog; did that as a typo but leaving it because it fits!) from a couple who retired early and are now traveling the world with their young daughter. They’re presently in Spain on their 20th month of a multi-year trip — http://www.soultravelers3.com/
