Have you ever seen something in the course of the day that provokes your curiosity? I'm not talking about the normal banal things like an interesting ad on tv. I'm talking about the quirky anomalies you come across in everyday life that make you think, there's a story there. Not a big one, not an important one, but an interesting departure from the norm.
Today as I was eating lunch I happened to look out the window and saw a woman running down the street. It was more than a jog, but less than a full-out sprint. The way she was dressed and a certain ungainliness in her gait said that this wasn't for exercise, but yet there wasn't the urgency in her run that you would expect if it were case of, "if I'm late getting back to work I'll get fired", or, "I need to find emergency medical help and I don't have my cell phone", or, "there are rabid squirrels chasing me". Perhaps she was simply enjoying the simple pleasure of being in motion like children do. Watching her run I was only left with the unanswerable question: why was this woman running?
This afternoon as I was driving home on the highway, for a while the car in front of me was a Domino's delivery guy. Normally this wouldn't arouse my interest, until I noticed that the car was a relatively new and shiny Dodge Charger. I was tempted for a moment to try to take a picture with my phone, but then, not being Klingon, I decided that today was not a good day to die and went back to driving instead. Now the Charger starts at around $25k, which you would think would put it out of the range of your average pizza delivery person. What story explains how a Charger came to be used in such a manner? Perhaps the delivery guy's car is broken down and he managed to convince his parents to loan him theirs? Perhaps we're looking at a tragic consequence of our financially troubled times: a typical middle class man has been forced to take a second job to make ends meet. Or even worse, total unemployment has made this his primary job.
No, these mysteries are not Twilight Zone worthy, but like a good TZ episode, they leave you with unanswered questions that remind you that the world is always slightly stranger than we remember it.
God bless,
AJ
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Monday, April 19, 2010
Thursday, April 15, 2010
And here we are!
...although I'm not sure who "we" are. The "solitary" in "Solitary Refinement" does after all imply there's just one of me, which is correct. But regardless, here we are!
I've been meaning to start a blog for some time, because we all know the internet is dreadfully short on content, and if creative people with interesting lives don't step up and fill the gap, well then what will we all read during the day at the office when we should be working instead? And just as soon as I meet some of those creative and interesting people I will urge them to blog themselves, but for now you're reading this for some unfathomable reason. Since I don't plan on telling anyone about this blog for quite a while until I feel more confident about my writing ability, then either you've stumbled here through some horrible random misfortune (my condolences), or more likely you're from the future and going back through the archives. Hello from the past! So how is the future? Do we have robots yet?
If you are from the future, then that gives me hope, because it means my blog must 1) have actually gained readers, and 2) be interesting enough that people actually want to read the archives. On the other hand, it could mean that you've stumbled across the blog and found it so terribly banal that you couldn't resist investigating its origins - has the author always put this much effort into creating such vapid content without managing to increase his skill? Did he start well, but fall from grace somewhere along the way? Could it actually once have been worse than this?
I cannot answer these questions for you. I can only tell you that the intent of this blog, regardless of how far from the mark it may stray, is to alternately provoke laughter and thoughtfulness in its readership, however small. I do so in the only way I know how - by providing the reflections on life unique to a single Christian male in his early 30s. Thus there will be musings on contemporary Christianity, discussion of gaming (since what else is a single male to do?), and the perspective of lifelong geek.
So to those of you reading this from the future I offer my thanks for being interested enough, from whatever motivation, to come back to witness the origin of my humble blog. I hope my efforts have brightened your day in between fleeing from the roving bands of Terminators programmed to exterminate mankind. At least that's how the robots of the future work out in my mind anyway.
God bless,
AJ
I've been meaning to start a blog for some time, because we all know the internet is dreadfully short on content, and if creative people with interesting lives don't step up and fill the gap, well then what will we all read during the day at the office when we should be working instead? And just as soon as I meet some of those creative and interesting people I will urge them to blog themselves, but for now you're reading this for some unfathomable reason. Since I don't plan on telling anyone about this blog for quite a while until I feel more confident about my writing ability, then either you've stumbled here through some horrible random misfortune (my condolences), or more likely you're from the future and going back through the archives. Hello from the past! So how is the future? Do we have robots yet?
If you are from the future, then that gives me hope, because it means my blog must 1) have actually gained readers, and 2) be interesting enough that people actually want to read the archives. On the other hand, it could mean that you've stumbled across the blog and found it so terribly banal that you couldn't resist investigating its origins - has the author always put this much effort into creating such vapid content without managing to increase his skill? Did he start well, but fall from grace somewhere along the way? Could it actually once have been worse than this?
I cannot answer these questions for you. I can only tell you that the intent of this blog, regardless of how far from the mark it may stray, is to alternately provoke laughter and thoughtfulness in its readership, however small. I do so in the only way I know how - by providing the reflections on life unique to a single Christian male in his early 30s. Thus there will be musings on contemporary Christianity, discussion of gaming (since what else is a single male to do?), and the perspective of lifelong geek.
So to those of you reading this from the future I offer my thanks for being interested enough, from whatever motivation, to come back to witness the origin of my humble blog. I hope my efforts have brightened your day in between fleeing from the roving bands of Terminators programmed to exterminate mankind. At least that's how the robots of the future work out in my mind anyway.
God bless,
AJ
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