Saturday, April 17, 2010

Dare to be Different


Break out of your routine. Do something different this weekend.

Here are some suggestions culled from the blogosphere...

1. The author of Outer Life recommends that you should plan a vacation to a country that could be a "back-up" should you ever need to leave your current country of residence for any reason. He's dead serious. When he's on vacation he doesn't "do sightseeing" and he doesn't like "meeting new people."

Partly this is because I am not a meet-new-people kind of person, but mostly it’s because my view is that people are pretty much the same wherever you go, so if you really want to meet someone new, walk down your street and introduce yourself to the people you meet there. You don’t need to travel halfway around the world to do that.


This anonymous author is the best blogger I have found at documenting the inner life of the "grumpy old guy" persona. Better than me, even. Damn him.

2. The author of my2fish makes a somewhat adventurous suggestion: swim until you can't see land. Yikes. It's a bit cold for that around here right now but it might be fun (if not a bit foolish) on a hot summer's day. Actually, as I always take off my glasses when I swim and I'm as blind as a bat without them, it's not a very difficult feat for me to achieve.

3. My third suggestion for your weekend fun is the most outrageous of all. Make friends with a jet skier! Come on. This guy can't be serious. Can he?

So which one are you going to choose this weekend? Or are you planning something even weirder?

7 comments:

EscapeVelocity said...

Personally, I like knowing people in my backup country.

Pat said...

In about an hour I'll be working on a marina - in the rain. That seems adequately strange.

VW: paingess

I don't even want to know...

my2fish said...

thanks for the link, tillerman.

a gorgeous day yesterday - high 60's and nice wind turned into a quite cold day today - low 40's now, maybe high 40's by the late afternoon... just in time for my 5-yr old's 1st soccer game of the spring today, and my 9-yr old's 1st is tomorrow.

I don't think swimming (to or away from land) is on the schedule!

cheers, my2fish

O Docker said...

Thanks for pointing me to a grumpy old man I hadn't known of before who turns out to be the kind of writer I like a lot.

I think I would like to walk on his lawn just to hear what words he would choose to tell me to leave. You know, the same thing I do here.

And oh, thanks for the shoutout, too.

Anonymous said...

Hey T-man. Is there really a subliminal message in that picture? Seems to imply that to be different is to be a horses ass. Must admit...sometimes guilty as charged.

Dave said...

The zebra in the middle is marching to a different bum...

PeconicPuffin said...

A different bum...bravo Dave!

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