*heard from the other room*
Mike: BOOM! LOGIC!
Mikes dropping logic bombs on people.
Where people = Mark.
As I mentioned in an earlier post, UnCommon Pear, an acoustic duo from Pooler, GA, had a gig at the end of February. It was awesome. Wish you could've been there. It was so much fun.
So the other night, Don paid me my half of the proceeds in cash. As he handed me the payment, I was thinking, "what is this foreign substance in my hand?"
Not that I'm broke or anything or don't know what earning money feels like, but it had been a long time since I had handled cash.
Cold, hard cash.
On the way home, I thought about it: everything else I buy electronically.
Grocery store/gas - credit cards. Cash is incredibly inconvenient because you can't pay at the pump and then you have to deal with heavy coins when they give you change.
Other bills - auto-draft from checking account, or auto-bill to credit card
Ebay/Amazon - credit cards, of course
Other stores - credit cards, gift cards
Anything else - credit cards, of course, because points
Credit card - auto-draft from checking
Credit cards have made it SO EASY to not carry cash.
Unless you're the stupid Georgia Department of Revenue and still charge a "convenience fee" of 2.35% with a $1 minimum if I try to renew my car registration online.
True story.
Just happened to me this morning.
It's like they're living in the 90's.
But anyway, what I'm trying to say is that cash has value because it's currency, but in reality, it's not as valuable to me as other forms of payment.
Also, I can't deposit it into my checking account because I have an online bank, so I have to deposit it into a brick and mortar bank in order to transfer it to my online bank so I can actually buy something with it.
Like, how do you break a $20. HOW!?!?
Not even a vending machine could do that.
But can a vending machine take a credit card?
It sure can. Because it's 2017.
"'Cuz this is the future and you are alive!"
-Owl City; This the Future
In other news, I went to the park today and did not one, not two, not three, but FOUR PULL-UPS.
It was amazing and painful at the same time, but it's very encouraging to see progress.
Last September, I could not do one push-up and barely half of a pull-up.
I did 20 push-ups in a row the other night, and 4 pull-ups this afternoon on some bars at the park.
In addition to walking like 6 miles.
(My Fitbit called me an over-achiever.)
It's just pretty cool to be able to do something physically that you've never been able to do before.
And as I was swinging on the bars and monkeying around, I thought about how incongruent full-time work is with the way our bodies are supposed to be.
So, in elementary school, you have recess where you get to go outside for 30 minutes or so and run around like wild.
The PUNISHMENT here is staying in from recess and not being able to socialize with your friends.
Then, in middle school and high school, you still get "break" in the afternoon, in addition to lunch, but you are still required to take a physical education elective at some point. You "dress out" and pretend to be hurt when you don't want to do anything.
Even in college, you have required core credits of physical education before you can get your degree.
But then when you get a a full-time office job? They want you to stay healthy because insurance, right, but they don't provide the time or resources to promote an active lifestyle at work.
Staying active has to come out of your own time, and there's no convenient equipment or monkey bars at work to go play around on.
I just wonder why physical education is such an integral part of our curriculum from pre-K to college, but after that, it's more like a mentality of "not required, but if you can get around to it, great."
I don't know if anyone else shares these sympathies, but I know I feel incredibly disheartened when after a full day at work, I only have 3,694 steps. Just from walking to the bathroom and back I guess.
And I even go to the bathroom at the other end of the hall.
Yet, I am exhausted because of all the brain power I have expended over the previous 9 hours and still have to go home and work out just so my body won't start falling apart in the next 5 years.
I just think recess should still be a thing, and it should be appropriate at any age, any environment.
I also think tangelo juice should be a thing.
Seriously. How is grapefruit juice sold in stores but tangelo juice isn't,
TWS
