Q: What would you like to be when you grow up? A: Inert

They say it's good to have goals. Now I'm not so sure who "they" are. I think maybe "they" are the same people who provide us with what the media calls "conventional wisdom." Now I am terribly conceited but, I still think I am right when I say there is no such thing as "conventional" wisdom. Shit conventional wisdom brought us all kinds of great ideas such as; the world is flat, man will never be able to fly, the earth is the center of the universe, some people were born to be slaves, women are innately inferior to men, homosexuality is a mental illness etc. etc. etc. So you see wisdom is unconventional!

If they are wrong about wisdom maybe they're wrong about goals too. When I was little people would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up and I remember saying stuff like first man on the moon, until that bastard Niel Armstrong stole my thunder! I also gave answers like President of the United States. Honestly though I wanted to be a garbage man. The garbage trucks in Omaha at that time loaded from the back and they had this big rotating compactor that squished the shit out of the shit that was dumped into them. It was cool! Only garbage men got to operate that sucker. As a kid garbage seemed a lot more interesting than it does now.

Today nobody asks me what I want to be when I grow up. I wonder if I seem grown up? Nah, no way! "They" probably figure it's just too late to bother with asking me. I am really not sure goals are such a great idea nevertheless I have one. My goal is be almost totally inert on a beach! Quite honestly that is really how I want to spend my life. I am happy to announce that I am in fact quite close to this goal! I do have a job, but I live across the street from the beach. I spend as much time as I can either on the beach or riding my bike to the ferry or to east beach. I get plenty of exercise but, I love hanging on the beach doing nothing. Well actually I am doing research. You see later I paint my impression of life at the beach or by the bay. I really love my life, even though I never do get to squish the shit out of shit!