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To be a kid again
Last weekend, my wife and I went up to Downtown Disney in Anaheim to have dinner with her parents. While we were there, we stopped into the Lego store. I was a big fan of Legos when I was young, but in one of our family moves, I had to give them up. As I started looking around the store, I was in heaven with all the Legos there; I'm particularly fond of the City collections as I used to build my own little cities before they really had the themes. The prices of the Legos were not all the unreasonable to a working professional, but when I was young, Legos almost seemed out of reach due to not having a job. If I could be a kid again earning a nice living, that would be cool as I could buy all the Legos I wanted!
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Social experiment
My wife and I went shopping for a piano last week and as a little experiment, I decided to see if the salesman would really talk to us. I wore shorts and had on my Teva sandals. My wife and I look pretty young, so we're usually ignored or get poor service. When we walked into the store, we went over to one of the least expensive pianos and started looking. The first salesman asked if we needed help, we said we were just looking. The second salesman that came over to us not only didn't ignore us, but spent a lot of time talking to us and telling us about the pianos. In addition, he took us to more expensive pianos! I was pretty shocked, but pleased with the service. I wish more places (including restaurants) were age-blind and treated us like we should be treated.
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I did it!
Today I ran and finished the Rock 'N' Roll Marathon. I knew in my heart that by training for it, I could run a marathon, but I proved it to myself (and to my family). Luckily I had my whole family cheering me on. I managed to do, what I consider, a reasonable time of 4:14:54, but my goal was to just finish.
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Sucks to be a non-partisan voter
When of the disadvantages of being a non-partisan voter near a primary election is that both parties spam you with crap. I'm getting phone calls (luckily they go straight to voicemail) and printed material from both Republicans and Democrats. I'd love to call both parties and tell them that I really don't care. I said to my wife yesterday that for $5000, they can have my vote. Yes, I know buying my vote is illegal. However, with these candidates for whatever office they're running for, I frankly don't care. I'm so disinterested in politics, I'd be happy with Mickey Mouse for governor/secretary of state/senator/whatever. Only a few more days until this election is over.