I fulfilled one of my 100/10 goals like 2 months ago and never even wrote about it!!
57) Get certified in CPR.
Done - many thanks to the great Front of House staff at the CSO that provided the classes.
9 down, 91 to go, 9.5 years to go...totes
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Way to go !!! That's good info to know.
Dear Katy,
One thing Dr. Michael Burke told me I will always remember: "for us, forgetfulness is a work hazard." He was talking about instructors, granted, but I think those words ring true elsewhere as well. Manifests and inventories inevitably come up short, whether from miscalculation, distraction, or some other cause. So just because something slipped your mind does not mean you are an idiot. If you think back, I'm sure you will be able to pinpoint some reason you did not remember - say, for instance, an important event occurred around the same time, or you were totally stoked about the release of the new Bond film. It's a good thing you became certified, and I congratulate you. Keep on chugging, Katy the Train!
David R. Smock
P.S. I've been thinking about the analogy of life being lived on the tracks, and it appears to me that the confining nature of the tracks does not allow much for random circumstance. I realize I wrote before that we were confined by our interests, but at the time I referred to superficial interests only. The confinement affects our processing methods as well - the tracks may represent our perspective as well.
I wrote in another piece of mail that our perspectives were much the same as the soldiers' positions within the Battle Room in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game. If one soldier interprets one direction as being down, others in the room seem upside-down, sideways, or slantwise. So far as the train analogy goes, the direction of the tracks (our disposition, if you remember) leads us toward valleys, plains, or mountains. Machiavelli would encourage this, though, for he states that the best way to subdue Fate is to remain constant. This, he says, will allow the person to meet and overcome whatever transpires.
But though I am inclined to agree with Machiavelli and embrace the analogy as being sound, that the confinement of the tracks disallows choice worries me. Trains do not choose which switch to activate, or which of the directions at a switch to follow. They simply follow the tracks wherever they go. By this line of reasoning addicts do not recover, law-breakers do not make amends, successful people do not make mistakes, and shepherds do not lead their flocks astray. Moreover, the world itself becomes static - which I am sure you would agree is not the case at all.
What are your thoughts on this?
I was going to comment, but was too intimidated by drSmock. So there. -the DCGF
Lawlz? o_O
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