Time Off

Boy, I sure do love having time off. I do enjoy my job, but I am beginning to covet my days off more and more. I realize this is not something new. But, you have to realize the household that I come from. My dad worked more days, and longer hours than I do now and he seemed to do it easily, thank you. I can not begin to think what frame of mind I would be in at 7PM if I had to get up at 6AM just to be ready to be at work at 7AM. I am sure I would get used to it, but I would not be the jovial and charming likeness that everyone knows and loves (Yeah, right). I am not saying that my dad talks like all the stories that you hear, "I had to walk 10 miles to work uphill bothways in the snow barefoot!" No, he has never said once that he had (has) it tougher than I do. But I remember how much he worked when I was growing up and I am thankful that my job does not require quite as much of my time as his did.

Another thing I remember about growing up was going to shop for home theater equipment with my Dad. It is mind blowing to think back to the "hot, new items" that we looked at back then. When I say back then I of course mean no earlier than about 1989-1992. Less than 20 years ago, and the hot thing we looked at was a Sony VCR that was able to define stereo surround audio tracks. It makes me laugh when that is compared with what we have today. Blu-ray, HD-DVD, and HDTV produce jaw dropping video and audio. I have been having some fun watching some Blu-ray and HD-DVD movies since I have been off. My wife watched an old movie on the VCR the other night and it was just awful. The sound had that "hiss" and the picture had lines and "hiccups" that made it a chore to watch. Isn't something that I make those comments about something that was state of the art when I was younger? I wonder what my daughter will think when she looks back at the stuff we use now.