Back from the middle of the country where I spent the first three days of the week enjoying the cold, cold air and bright sun of early winter. And working. Working a lot, actually, but making progress. Now I'm back in PA for two work days and evenings at home, then one last 2010 work weekend.
I've been faced with small things that astonish me over the past few days: why is it so fun to see familiar faces at the airport? I met Bill & Sharon on their way home from LAS for not more than 20 minutes and it was too cool for school. Why can't airports have good restaurants? Most everybody there on a Wednesday night is on expense account; KNL would spring for a $17 salad if it had lettuce of a recent vintage. Why is gold still becoming more valuable? I've been reading 'The Economist' en route and it makes me question things like this...you can't eat gold, cut things with it, form it into sharpened tools, or power anything with it. People at work say 'oh but it's precious.' Precious to who? Is our entire economy somehow based on shiny-ness?
Thursday, December 16, 2010