What Started It All

Is my life "average"?

Well, I was thinking... if I was a radioactive isotope, I could say "My Half-Life is Average"; but, since I'm many "stones" and many "strands of wisdom" past youth and inexperience, perhaps it should be said that "My Mid-Life Is Average"?

My Axioms

1) I proceeded to tell my youngest daughter, "Let me paint you a picture...", to which she replied, "no, no, no Dad, no painting pictures in this part of the house." - My Mid-Life is Average

2) My oldest daughter (yet again) rolled her eyes at me and said, "Dad, that's not funny." She was further put-out at my less-than-stellar response of, "Maybe over there, but from where I'm standing - it's hilarious." - My Mid-Life is Average

3) The last time we walked into a local restaurant where we had gotten to be known - not only by face, but by what we had previously ordered - I requested a different menu item just so I could "win". - My Mid-Life is Average

4) Over the course of the last three weeks, instead of flicking my high-beams at on-coming vehicles who had theirs on, I chose (instead) to blow the horn and swerve a little... wife knew better than to comment about how weak that was. ` My Mid-Life is Average

5) Given how crafty telemarketers are getting... I assign their numbers to "Satan". Sunday, during church, Pastor heard my phone ring at 11:53 p.m.. Mortified, I checked it - a telemarketer. Pastor quickly commented in the middle of his sermon, "You better get that, that might be GOD calling... oh, wait a minute, He don't have your number." Come to find out he was more right than he thought - My Mid-Life is Average

6) Not to say that my time awake is any less busy than it was the same time last year; but, I have since started getting a lot more accomplished by working on all sorts of problems/solutions in-between my dreams, while asleep of course. - My Mid-Life is Average


~RNS, originally posted Monday, January 18, 2010 at 7:41pm