Easter is rearing its ugly head today. I keep meaning to look up what it means to Christians so I can make fun of it. Right now is as good a time as any, so I’ll do that right now and get back to you. I’m back. Did you miss me? It is when they celebrate the resurrection of Christ. They supposedly crucified him three days earlier, so it took him three days to come back from the dead. That is the true meaning of the holiday. All the stuff about rabbits delivering eggs and candy to kids came later. I, of course, looked up the origins of the Easter Bunny. It started in Germany and spread to other parts of the world. I embraced the bunny version of Easter when I was a kid. I loved searching for eggs and eating too much candy. As you can tell from me having to look it up, I didn’t know about the resurrection version. The whole Jesus story is not kid friendly. It’s especially not friendly to kids in Jewish families.
The Easter Bunny and Santa Claus have many parallels. They’re both fictional characters we lie to kids about. Kids buy it because they get candy and gifts. Why would they question that? Kids can visit people in costumes if they want proof either of them exists. As I’ve always said about kids, they’re pretty stupid. It’s more of an ignorance of what’s real. I find it funny that we present these stories to kids that are just covers for the horrible stories involving baby and zombie Jesus. The day when we completely remove Jesus and God from our holidays will be a great day for reality.
I’ve been using my new dash-cam as I drive in my car. One of the first things I recorded was Patti and I in the car grocery shopping. The main thing I’m noticing in the videos is how old and fat I am. I’m working on the fat thing. Even if I can get past how I look, I notice how long the pauses are between the things I say. I think I should give Patti a medal for listening to me talk. When I’m ranting, I’m okay, but most of my talking is going to have to be edited to take out the pauses. It’s even worse than my normal audio recordings because I’m distracted by driving. This is not a bad thing for driving, but it makes for a distracted me. I think during the pauses, but my thoughts are inaudible.
Last night, I was listening to YouTube music in my car. I had listened to electronic music recently, so it played several songs by artists I didn’t know beyond one or two songs by them. Most of the songs were live recordings of their concerts. I don’t like most live recordings. The first thing I noticed was the huge time it took them to actually get to the song. They are catering to the live audience who has the visual part of the concert to distract them. All I hear is a slow introduction building at a snail’s pace. You can’t tell what song they’re going to play because they haven’t played a discernible tune. Eventually, I found tunes I knew that weren’t live. There weren’t many of those. It was an interesting experiment, but I probably won’t do it again.
Whenever I see myself in recent videos or in a reflection when I’m not expecting to see myself, I’m shocked by what I see. I have a weird resting face. I look like a clay sculpture that’s not quite finished. More clay in some areas and less in others might help, but I doubt it. I’m a work in progress who will probably never be done. Most of the time, I’m not looking at myself so it shouldn’t be too much of a problem. As I get older, my eyesight will get worse and I won’t even notice. Leave it to me to find the positive side of a deteriorating body. My flaws disappear when I can’t see them. Yay aging!
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