George Carlin on aging!Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we’re kids? If you’re less than 10 years old, you’re so excited about aging that you think in fractions. ’How old are you?’ ’I'm four and a half!’ You’re never thirty-six and a half. You’re four and a half, going on five! That’s the key. You get into your teens, now they can’t hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead. ’How old are you?’ ‘I’m gonna be 16!’ You could be 13, but hey, you’re gonna be 16!
And then the greatest day of your life! You become 21. Even the words sound like a ceremony. YOU BECOME 21. YESSSS!!!
But then you turn 30. Oooohh, what happened there? Makes you sound like bad milk! He TURNED; we had to throw him out. There’s no fun now, you’re Just a sour-dumpling.. What’s wrong? What’s changed? You BECOME 21, you TURN 30… then you’re PUSHING 40. Whoa! Put on the brakes, it’s all slipping away. Before you know it, you REACH 50 and your dreams are gone… But! wait!! ! You MAKE it to 60. You didn’t think you would!
So you BECOME 21, TURN 30, PUSH 40, REACH 50 and make it to 60. You’ve built up so much speed that you HIT 70! After that it’s a day-by-day thing; you HIT Wednesday! You get into ! your 80’s and every day is a complete cycle; you HIT lunch; you TURN 4:30; you REACH bedtime. And it doesn’t end there. Into the 90s, you start going backwards; ‘I Was JUST 92.’ Then a strange thing happens. If you make it over 100, you become a little kid again. ‘I’m 100 and a half!’
One day while having breakfast in the city at a nice little shop with a man with much experience and wisdom in many areas, he asked me. “What motivates you?” I really wasn’t sure what to say, “I’ve been trying to figure that out myself for some time now. It’s not wealth, or fame. I can’t figure out what it is.”
Then he asked me one simple question. What do you pray about?
Go ahead and give it a read. But I can guarantee that this research project will fail and be terminated. Why do I say so? Because the proof these folks provide also contradicts the agenda set by the ones who control all the governments of the world. And it’s not the US as you might think either folks.
Was driving to Northam yesterday evening, and it looked like rain clouds were coming. Getting a little further you could see that it was actually smoke. Going even further you could smell the smoke.
Forest fires here in Perth are quite common. It’s a really dry climate in the vast majority of areas, and fires are started easily. They are started by nature, but many times sadly are started intentionally be humans, who for some reason enjoy it.
Well, just the other day I saw my first Australian kangaroo, nice and easy. Two of them hoping through a suburb.
They are just like the dear in Canada, you have to be careful when driving because if they get in front of you, they don’t move.
Another interesting little animal we have here is called the red back spider. They bite, and when they do you’re either dead or disabled for at least 3 months.
So you kind of want to stay clear of them. One thing that is definitely different over here is that you have to watch what you’re doing. Not checking closely before lifting something off the ground, can kill you.
Australian slang, and slobering of the english language. It’s going to take a little while to get used to how people talk. For the most part they’re easy to understand, but I find myself often asking them to repeat what they just said, simply because one important word is missing from my vocabulary, and cannot be aided by the remaining words understood.
But I’ve had a few comments where they like my Canadian accent, so it seems true. The only reason we like other people’s accents are because they’re different, something outside of normallity. Isn’t that true with people as well. We are attracted to those who stand out, who are different, not those who just try to blend in with everybody else. One of the reasons I have not been trying to pickup the aussie accent. It’ll come soon enough.
NerdFest 2008 in Kingston Ontario is going really well. Perhaps if I had a camera other than the one on my laptop you might see some good photos here, but they’ll be coming through other sources. Although here’s one of me wearing me new Astaro shirt!
