Waiting at the crosswalk a short while ago I wondered about an article or television program in recent weeks.
I was standing there trying to understand why I just did what I just did.
I have walked up to that crosswalk hundreds of times by now waiting to cross over to the north side of Sprague Avenue.
I always walk there, sometimes from one side of that side of the street or the other side of the crosswalk signal, and I do the same thing every time.
I walk up to the crosswalk signal and I hit the button with my elbow.
Not today. Today I reach the point, some kind of threshold decision point I have been thinking, and I am standing there and then I am looking down at my right hand as it goes through the motion and I have just enough time to wonder why I had just pulled out my house keys from my pocket just at the point when I was about to press the crosswalk request button. I had enough time to think and to continue with the motion and I hit the button once with my house key. That side has been updated to a newer button that doesn't require much force to activate.
So I am wondering why I did that. I know the traffic patterns there very well by now and I know precisely when the crosswalk signal will illuminate and I am standing there trying to remember when I saw or read that article about the so-called Alzheimer's Disease.
What I recall was that was about the description of the early stages of the disease. The point was that the disease was not about forgetting where a person left his or her keys. Rather the disease caused you to forget what is the purpose of keys.
By the time I had got into the grocery store the occurrence faded from my mind and I thought about different stuff for much of the rest of time until I got back to my apartment and I started to wonder again.
Imaging the receipt is too much hassle so you'll just have to take my word for it especially since I've done it so many times already and there's really no point to any of this.
From 3/22/2006 to 7/5/2015 is 3392 days
From 4/19/1991 to 8/1/2000 is 3392 days
From 12/1/1981 to 3/16/1991 is 3392 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_1981
December 1981
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following events occurred in December 1981:
December 1, 1981 (Tuesday)
Iran-Contra scandal: U.S. President Reagan signed a Presidential Finding, secretly authorizing the CIA to provide direct assistance to the Contra rebels, led by Eden Pastora, in overthrowing the Sandinista government of Nicaragua. A Congressional committee would cite the action later in a section entitled "Misuse of Findings", concluding that the President authorized more than had been reported to Congress.
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Drop Dead Fred (1991)
Release Dates
USA 19 April 1991
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101775/fullcredits
IMDb
Full cast and crew for
Drop Dead Fred (1991)
Phoebe Cates ... Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Cronin
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0186566/releaseinfo
IMDb
Space Cowboys (2000)
Release Info
USA 1 August 2000 (premiere)
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=space-cowboys
Springfield! Springfield!
Space Cowboys (2000)
So the relay patch is the key?
Plain as the nose on your face.
-Howd you bypass the heat exchanger?|-I didnt bypass anything.
Youre not being very forthcoming|on the guidance system.
Kid, Ive done everything|short of...
...calculus instructions to bring you|up to speed.
What do you want, a picture?|Connect the dots?
Excuse me. I hold two masters|degrees from MIT, Dr. Corvin.
Maybe you ought to|get your money back.
You were just brought up on|a different set of technologies.
Youre compromising this mission. Im|your backup on a need-to-know basis.
You dont need to know dick.|I dont need a backup.
Yes, you do.
More than you know.
Whats that supposed to mean?
What dont I know?
What dont I know?
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 11:12 AM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: 295 days
It has been 295 days since I have been homeless. Why does this continue?
I'm not sure when I last drove a car. It was last June or July, I'm not sure. It would have been after I left my Jeep parked at the Redmond police office after I went there for help. How I would love to be able to just get back in a Jeep Wrangler and just drive. Even when this ends though, it never will actually end. People will still be following me. Even if I change my name, they will still know who I am and where I go. If I stop for gas, someone will just note the name on my credit card and start spreading that around. If I go into the store to pay for cash, they will recognize me and spread around that I was there and what I was driving. Someone will have their friend at the DMV look up my auto registration and spread that around. If I hire people to drive me around, if I could even afford that, then I will certainly never have any privacy.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 22 March 2006 excerpt ends]
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2008/nambu-facts.html
Nobelprize.org
The Official Web Site of the Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008
Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Maskawa
Yoichiro Nambu
Born: 18 January 1921, Tokyo, Japan
Died: 5 July 2015, Osaka, Japan
Affiliation at the time of the award: Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Prize motivation: "for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics"
Field: particle physics
Introduced Spontaneous Symmetry Violation into Elementary Particle Physics
For a long time, physicists assumed that different types of symmetries characterise nature. In a kind of mirror-world, the physical laws should be the same if right and left are exchanged and if matter is replaced by antimatter. However, symmetries had sometimes been shown to be violated. Yoichiro Nambu formulated in 1960 a mathematical theory for understanding symmetry violations, giving a basis for better understanding the elementary particles and their interactions.
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AZ
SHERYL CROW
album: "C'Mon, C'Mon" (2002)
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/sherylcrow/soakupthesun.html
AZ
SHERYL CROW
"Soak Up The Sun"
My friend the communist
Holds meetings in his RV
I can't afford his gas
So I'm stuck here watching TV
I don't have digital
I don't have diddly squat
It's not having what you want
It's wanting what you've got
[CHORUS:]
I'm gonna soak up the sun
Gonna tell everyone
To lighten up (I'm gonna tell 'em that)
I've got no one to blame
For every time I feel lame
I'm looking up o I'm gonna soak up the sun
I'm gonna soak up the sun
I've got a crummy job
It don't pay near enough
To buy the things it takes
To win me some of your love
Every time I turn around
I'm looking up, you're looking down
Maybe something's wrong with you
That makes you act the way you do
Maybe i am crazy too
[CHORUS]
I'm gonna soak up the sun
While it's still free
I'm gonna soak up the sun
Before it goes out on me
Don't have no master suite
I'm still the king of me
You have a fancy ride, but baby
I'm the one who has the key
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 2:27 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Tuesday 01 November 2016
