Think Tank: It's tough being a Luddite

Tuesday, November 30, 2004

It's tough being a Luddite

I have to send my laptop back to the manufacturer because the motherboard needs to be replaced. That sounds pretty serious. I dunno.

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It has been over a month since Day Light Savings ended but I am fighting my own very small battle to join the forces that think the United States should permanently stay on Day Lights Savings time (do those jerks in Arizona still not observe it at all? Join the fucking 20th century you desert rats. ).

To fight this fight I have yet to set the clock on my car stereo back one hour. I've changed all my other clocks, but that Saturn Wagon rides like a time machine that is always an hour ahead of the rest of the idiots out there. No wonder I drive so stress free. I'm never late.

Maybe this has a lot more to do with the fact that I don't know how to change the clock. Maybe. You see I only left the world of automotive audiocassette technology behind a few months ago. The grease monkeys at Best Buy, in addition to charging me an arm and a leg to install a cheap stereo, set the clock when they installed it. See, this is why I hate buying retail stuff. I hate the slick sales dude and at the same time, I am embarrassed to be buying a cheapo stereo and telling the guy that I'm not ready for the stereo that can play MP3s. I'm just now buying a CD player for the car.

Now I'm stuck one time zone to the east. Hello Cincinnati.

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101 accomplishments in 1,001 days

1) Build an easel for Khan.
2) Add a partner to Served With Taste.
3) Attend a high school baseball game.
4) Start a Roth IRA.
5) Fly a kite.
6) Put shelves in closet for LPs.
7) Train Duke to lay down after being “shot” by phaser.
8) Have a dinner party.
9) Read another Tom Ripley novel.
10) Bike on the Midtown Greenway.
11) Create a piece of decorative art.
12) Buy a book on framing and matting.
13) Catch a fish.
14) Visit Lake Minnetonka.
15) Go to Hamline for a sporting event.
16) Make breakfast in bed for Ms. stu.
17) Read a management book.
18) Buy a four-drawer filing cabinet.
19) Watch Citizen Kane.
20) Go to church on a day other than Christmas or Easter.
21) Read Goodrich’s History of Anoka County.
22) Write one of those Christmas newsletters.
23) Eat sushi.
24) Call John Christianson.
25) Do a project from Make.
26) Ice skate at Milwaukee depot.
27) Rent a canoe.
28) Visit Fort Snelling.
29) Visit the Alexander Ramsey House.
30) Visit the Oliver Kelley Farm.
31) Visit Gibbs Museum of Pioneer & Dakota Life.
32) Enter a project in a county fair.
33) Make a soufflé.
34) Put a folding shelf in the garage.
35) Go camping for at least one night.
36) Exercise for twenty minutes before work for a full week.
37) Rough sort the First Ave. archives, create a finding aid and return them to DEMO.
38) Use one of my many massage gift certificates.
39) Do twenty pull-ups.
40) Take a 360 degree panoramic photo of my block, preferably with freshly fallen show.
41) Test drive a Honda Fit.
42) Find a new dentist and go in for a cleaning and checkup.
43) Make a birthday cake for someone other than Ms. stu.
44) Paint the northeast bedroom.
45) Go to the farmer’s market with Ms. stu on a Saturday morning.
46) Increase the memory and hard drive on the desktop computer.
47) Rip all of the CDs into iTunes.
48) Make MP3s of all the seven inches.
49) Make MP3s of all the local music.
50) Take an overnight trip to Stillwater.
51) Go cross-country skiing.
52) Buy a new outfit for Ms. stu for no special reason.
53) Visit New York during the holidays.
54) Attend a vintage base ball game.
55) Get a new set of woods for my golf clubs.
56) Play a round of golf in addition to the annual family golf tournament.
57) Play tennis three times in four weeks.
58) Plant something in the garden.
59) Go on a picnic.
60) Have dinner with my grandmother.
61) Take my parents out for dinner.
62) Attend a Minnesota Thunder game.
63) Get a passport.
64) Write a thank you letter to Bob Newhart.
65) Get a facial.
66) Ride the light rail.
67) Go to a Twins day game during the work week.
68) Go to the top of the Foshay Tower.
69) Sing karaoke.
70) Make a bench for the living room.
71) Add a new dinner dish to my repertoire.
72) Make cider.
73) Make veggie jerky.
74) Use the router.
75) Buy a new dark suit.
76) Donate $100 to a charity.
77) Make a dish with morel mushrooms.
78) Make a dish a dish from Sportsman’s Kitchen Fish Cookbook.
79) *PERSONAL*
80) Get a Pat Neshek t-shirt.
81) Watch Chinatown.
82) See Mount Rushmore.
83) Collect a box score for every game from the Twins’ 1967 season.
84) Get a Minnesota Twins Topps team set for each season from 1975 to the present.
85) Create a Dogster account for Duke.
86) Do fifty consecutive pushups.
87) Bring my car in for the “maintenance required” light.
88) Clean the basement.
89) Have a lobster dinner.
90) Collect 50% of the old Susstones catalog.
91) Make a hallway mirror/coat rack.
92) Watch Rope.
93) Read a book on sustainable living.
94) Learn more about dog racing, specifically the life of race dogs.
95) Visit Canada.
96) Go see a play.
97) Go to the opera.
98) Sleep in until noon.
99) Buy a Jonathan Richman/Modern Lovers album.
100) Send Eleanor a card.
101) Rent a paddleboat.