Category: Random Babblings

Google Maps was pretty WAY off with some directions last night:

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Yes… I went to the Monster Jam Monster Truck rally at Speedway 95 in Bangor, basically dragged there by our very enthusiastic 5 year old, Owen, who was pretty adamant that he HAD to go.

It was certainly an ‘experience’ and Owen had a good time. It did strike me as a glimpse of our world gone weird, where a ‘sporting’ events involves amazingly large and loud trucks crush cars, jump in the air, spin in the dirt and bounce around for short periods of time. Go Gravedigger! Woo!

I’m going to spare y’all the exact details since I doubt they’d be of interest to anyone not inside my head, but a number of conversations I’ve had today both online and in person have included discussions about ‘Who do you trust?’ and how we assign trust. I’m realizing that I care more about how much I trust & respect an individual or business than I do about just about anything else.

If you assign trust to someone and they are worthy of it then all other things become secondary to that. If you trust a business to sell you something at a fair price then the cost of the item becomes secondary. If you ask someone you trust to do you a favor then you can rely on it being done barring any extenuating circumstances. On a computer business level, if you trust a business has competent tech support and reliable hardware then you dont need to worry about that level of things.

Having places & people you trust to handle things keeps us sane. This allows for some mental decluttering … if a problem can be passed over to a person I trust then I don’t need to worry about it. I can trust that it will be taken care of.

Deep thoughts from the sleep deprived. (that would be a good blog title)

That’s all for now, I’m off to bed.

-Matt