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Today...
By: AJ Date: January 9, 2021, 6:53 pm
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I did my housework, my laundry, went grocery shopping, washed
the truck.
Now I have a nice pot of chili simmering on the stove. Watching
football, eating peanuts, and drinking a cold beer.
Saturday nights are quite tame for this old man. I may get wild
and watch a movie after he footballs done.
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Re: Today...
By: dinkleburg Date: January 11, 2021, 11:50 am
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[quote author=AJ link=topic=723.msg6426#msg6426 date=1610240010]
I did my housework, my laundry, went grocery shopping, washed
the truck.
Now I have a nice pot of chili simmering on the stove. Watching
football, eating peanuts, and drinking a cold beer.
Saturday nights are quite tame for this old man. I may get wild
and watch a movie after he footballs done.
[/quote]
I hear ya on that one, Jim.
Any night I stay up past 10:30 is a big deal anymore.
I am turning into my parents... ;D
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Re: Today...
By: AJ Date: January 12, 2021, 8:53 pm
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[quote author=dinkleburg link=topic=723.msg6427#msg6427
date=1610387423]
I hear ya on that one, Jim.
Any night I stay up past 10:30 is a big deal anymore.
I am turning into my parents... ;D
[/quote]
It happens to most of us....I seem more and more like the worst
part of my parents at times. My Dad was a big bear of a man with
a heart of absolute gold. Loved to laugh and make people laugh.
He had no real goal in life except to love my Mom and his kids,
and to see his kids do well. My Mother was generally suspicious
of people, very religious. Never seemed to have much faith in
anyone but God. She wasn't joyless, but she didn't see humor in
most things the way my Dad and I did.
I've become cynical about most things, like her. I love to laugh
and make people laugh, but generally view people I don't know
with suspicion...Like she did.
It doesn't help that now days, you are taking your life in your
hands talking about politics. Things escalate, it seems
instantly if you have a viewpoint that varies even slightly from
the views around you at the time.
I've felt, for most of my life, that nobody really understands
me. It would seem now, that no one is interested in
understanding anyone else at all. I'm speaking generally though.
It's just the atmosphere, at least in my country, is toxic as
hell. I'm worried all the time about this. Worried for the Lad
most of all. He's such a sweet kid, straight, no drugs or
drinking. But he has hair past his shoulders. I worry constantly
some stupid redneck is going to pick shit with him, thinking
he's a hipster or something...But he's never been in a fight his
whole life. The college he attends is deep in the Piney Woods
section of Texas where the boots and Cowboy hats dominate. Lotta
rebel flags and the like. I guess I shouldn't worry, but I do.
He's apolitical...He doesn't watch television unless he's home
with me and is pretty unaware of a lot of things really. Funny.
He's smart as hell. Y'know...Weird smart if you get me. I mean
he can't find his keys but he can do math I don't even
recognize. Deans' list every semester. But has to check his
phone to figure out where in the world he is at the time. I
dunno. I just worry......Like a parent.....More like a
Grandparent. I'm more than old enough to be his Grandparent.
I wouldn't worry too much about turning in before 10:30 Dan old
buddy. Most nights, during the work week especially, I've been
asleep for an hour and a half before then. [emoji1]
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Re: Today...
By: dinkleburg Date: January 13, 2021, 10:48 am
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Yeah, normal conversation can take a pretty weird turn very
quickly nowadays. Although we aren't as dramatically polarized
up here as the US appears to be, you still have to mind what you
say, particularly here in Canada's conservative stronghold. Just
yesterday I phoned my brother to see how he was doing, and he
was starting to go on about "fear control", "inflated numbers",
etc. I quickly steered the conversation another direction. It
took me over a year to patch the rift caused by our last
"discussion" about politics. I don't want to have a repeat
performance, thank you. :P
It matters not whether I agree or disagree, I just won't talk
politics to anyone anymore. Nothing I say will change the other
person's mind, and they are unlikely to change mine. I'm not
particularly proud of the last part of that sentence, as I have
tried to live my life while seeing other people's points of
view, but it is getting increasingly more difficult to bend in
the wind, as the saying goes. >:(
The long and the short of it is that life will go on and the
politicians are gonna do what they're gonna do regardless of
what I think about it, so I just try to move on. I'm not always
successful, however.
I have no children of my own, but I do have a great niece and
nephew who are both less than 10 years old. I do worry about
what type of world they are growing up in and also what type of
world they will have to live in.
Interesting times, to say the least.
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Re: Today...
By: AJ Date: January 13, 2021, 3:03 pm
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You know, I started this place with the intention of it being a
respite from the world, where a common interest in music could
bind people together. I still want that to be the mission
here.😎
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