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1 " If you live on Statin Island, cholesterol is not a problem. "
― Jon M. Obermeyer
2 " I assume a constant stateof genuflection, retrievingpills, pens, coins: they fleemy grasp like Mexican jumpingbeans. Please do not ask meto carry the groceries, hangpictures, dust the mantle. Isuccumb to indexterity. "
3 " My Uber driver in Sacramento was not like my San Franciso Uber from earlier that day at SFO. My SAC Uber driver’s first presdential election was JFK-Nixon (or Eisenhower in 1956) and he was already drawing a Social Security check. "Father Time" overshot my fixed location (twice) and then didn’t listen to the navigation instructions. This guy’s signature move (and totem animal) is a U-Turn, a mile past the original juncture. "
4 " Everywhere you lived is just a ledge, a placeyou could have tumbledfrom. Your hometownis a precipice, you’ll learnsomeday. What the realtorsold to you is merelya coat hook, an excuse for the roof to settleatop your head, like a butterfly "
5 " I have probably seen the airline belt buckle demonstration 400 times, maybe more.They won’t even start the airplane safety demonstration until everyone has their seat buckle on. That's weird.Here’s my suggestion. We are all savvy, digital travelers, tracked by the FAA by our drivers licenses (used for operating automobiles, where we also have seatbelts). We shouldn’t be penalized (or paralyzed) by watching the darn seatbelt buckle demo after we’re already buckled in.Create boarding group “R” for Rookie. Before boarding, everyone who hasn’t flown 5 times within the last 10 years has to get in a room in the departure lounge to have the mandatory seatbelt buckle demo privately, including the “helpful” tips about the direction of roller board wheels (pointing out), and how to pull the strap and inflate the life vest. "
6 " Maybe it's my undiagnosed, adult-onset ADD, but I rarely have a problem with writer's block, a daunting blank page, or picking a topic. I read a lot and that helps "
7 " Everyone in California outside Sacramento thinks of it as the place where laws are created, where regulations are invented, and white-shoed lobbyists entertain elected officials from Tarzana and Tehachapi with filet mignon and garlic mashed potato dinners.I’m sure it is the same way in Albany, Springfield, Baton Rogue and Raleigh. State Government is like an ingrown toenail. Put your sock over it, slip your foot into a shoe and limp to work. Don’t let anyone else see it. "
8 " Your destiny is tiny.It says so right there in the word “des-tiny.”That means its really not that big a deal.Destiny is a pebble in your shoe. "
