Hi Wally and Welcome:
Well now!! That's what might be called........getting 'er done!!!
Not me. I've been putting that whole shopping thing off. I just am not into it this year. I've got a few gifts but lot's more to find. I just need to get into hunt mode......and I better hurry up!!
Yesterday evening, I did some decorating and that helped a little.
And the snow!!! (First snow of the year?? hahahahahahaha!! Not here! My daughter and sister in law already built one 8 foot snow man and I've got a feeling it won't be the last. Everything is white here this morning...including the air!!) But the snow does help make it feel more like Christmas (to me).
hate holidays, and birthdays, and people that cut you off when your trying to merge onto a freeway.
I don't like the crowds, or really....crowded places...so that's why the procrastination about shopping (which doesn't make any sense because the longer I wait.....the bigger the crowds will get). I think I might drive east of here, to a few of the small towns, and do my gift hunting there. I'm sure the crowds will be smaller there.
Hmmmm.......birthdays and holidays eh? What don't you like about them?
No need to ask that question about the cutter offers.
I saw a cool show on TV once, where they were describing this prototype idea on how to decrease highway congestion and accident statistics.....
They talked of how these roads could be built.....with sort of magnets built into them (I think??) and each car would have a computer gadget that one programs their destination into. The person drives the car to the beginning of the on ramp/entrance of the highway and then......get this......the computer takes over, the magnets switch on and the car drives itself....onto the highway and all along, until it gets to the off-ramp/exit destination the person programmed in. There would be no congestion or accidents because speed, distance etc is all maintained at rates determined by the computer. No congestion. No accidents.
Just think......people could read, write poetry, nap.......hahahahahaha
...maybe knit a scarf.........whatever........instead of fighting traffic or merging with anything. The computer controls the whole process...no speeding...no cutting off.....nothing!!
Then, once the vehicle reaches the destination off ramp, alarms and buzzers go off, vibrating seat, fans come on full blast, whatnot.....the driver is alerted....the car goes down the exit, the magnets turn off, the computer turns off and the driver takes over control of the machine again. Doesn't do much for city traffic but it sounds like a cool idea for the highway..to me (plus it leaves police forces available to monitor city drivers more closely, which would also hopefully effect speeders etc).
Only problem.......same old problem.......always the problemo......
Moola. It would cost zillions to fix all the highways up with these magnets or whatever they are.
Haven't heard a word about it since that show. I thought it was really cool.
I love people with such amazingly creative minds/imaginations.....who spend their time and energy trying to think up ways to improve things......like Benjamin Franklin. That guy.....thinked up all kinds of cool stuff!
Sela
