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When I was a wee little tot, my parents would put me to sleep by driving with me in my car seat. Apparently, I would fall asleep almost immediately. Present day I can be found to have passed out fallen asleep while a passenger in a car, even without the car seat.
There’s a lot of people out there that get really pissed at traffic, and I can’t say that I blame them, but I typically find it very calming and relaxing to be driving, even if I am driving like a bandit.
Over the past week or so the computers here at work have been replaced with much better hardware and software. We went from NT 4.0 to XP Pro. We went from Celerons to P4’s. We went from clunky 15″ monitors to sleek flat touch screen monitors. Playing around in XP with a touch screen is almost enough to make you giddy. Along with this change came many problems that made me quite aware of what I knew when it came to Excel and what I needed to learn. There were also problems in balancing sales from 3 days where we didn’t have computers. All of these things meant stress, which called for some stress release.
I got into my car, I had a special job to do, then I went for a drive around Hastings Ranch. I rolled slowly around the neighborhood with my windows down enjoying the cool autumn breeze. There were no cars behind me and nobody in front of me. The streets were riddled with red, brown, and yellow leaves that crunched beneath my tires. It was then that I realized waht the problem with cars are. The windows.
Okay, so you need the windows, and I understand this. Are they truly necessary 100% of the time, though? I try to keep them up when I’m on the scar freeway, but they’re typically down otherwise. You might say that this is because of my lack of AC, and on a hot day you’d be right for the most part. Even when it’s cold, though, there’s that feeling of air rushing over my oustretched arm, the wind running through my hair, and then there’s the fact that I could hear, feel, and smell autumn which brings me right back to the fact that I am a breathing living creature on this planet, and the planet itself is also alive. With your windows up the only thing you know is that the tickets for the KROQ Acoustic Christmas are on sale and that KLOS wants you to unlock some damn vault that has $10,000 for you.
Roll down your windows.
Open your doors.
Go outside.
Breathe.