I must admit that my attention span is seriously challenged more and more in this new world of rapid information overload. It all started with websites like facebook, which connects all of us through the information we've voluntarily offer freely. In all honesty, it has brought a type of connection to people in ways that were impossible in the past; which is a great thing. However, the more I participate in this social network frenzy, the more I feel like I'm losing a part of myself.
I suppose the pinnacle of of it all is the idea of micro-blogging such as twitter. I've somehow conditioned myself to write something extremely short and concise, but often pointless and witless. The idea of I-want-it-fast-and-I-want-it-NOW has once again taken over our ability to think and communicate just as it took over our ability to eat - we simply settle for fast food.
The biggest enemy of writing must be the lack of time to compose thoughts. If I can't sit down for more than 30 minutes, then I'm simply unable to put my thoughts on paper well. Seriously, I almost considered writing this entry as a twitter (or facebook) status update. It would've probably taken me 30 seconds to write something lame like "I really need to think more and twitter less...".
It is so easy to convince myself that I don't have time to write. After all, we all have so much to do. But the truth is, writing helps me to gather my thoughts and process them in a way that makes sense. By not writing, I feel like I'd eventually pay a steeper price because I wouldn't be thinking anymore (at least not deep enough anyway).
Well, I think I just miss writing. I miss seeing the gears turning in my head, the quietness of my mind and the channeling of my emotions. And most of all, it helps me slow down in this fast-paced culture and just take a breather...
A while back, I took a hearing exam just to see how my hearing was. I've attached an image of the audiometry. The red line shows the hearing on my right ear; and blue the left.
Anyways, it looks like I've had some damage in my right ear. I guess it's from all the ride cymbal and crash cymbals. Overall, I'd say I'm glad that I didn't suffer more damage after playing drums for 10 years. I actually went ahead and bought a pair of musician's earplugs for future playing; which I probably should've gotten a long time ago. Anyways, better late than never since I'd probably keep playing as long as I'm able.
Last night Lisa and I took the last flight from San Jose to San Diego. We were flown all the way to San Diego, circled around and told that we were heading back to San Jose because apparently there was such a thick fog around SD Airport that we couldn't land.
Welp, at midnight on Sunday, we were right back where we were. Then we were also told that the earliest flight Southwest was able to put us on would be sometime in the Monday afternoon; which would not work for Lisa since she had training in SD in the morning. So we had to book another flight with Virgin Airline flying out of SF at 7:30am. By the time we got our plan worked out, it was basically 2am, and we had to get up at 5am to get ready to catch the flight.
We finally got in to SD around 9am....
BTW, it was pretty cool to fly Virgin. All the entertainment on board was quite nice. They had movies, music, chats, games and etc. I was quite over-stimulated by the end of the flight. I wish I had more time to watch movies and TV shows on there.
I took an IQ test today. And then I realized that maybe they don't ever give out bad scores because nobody would ever wanna feel dumb about themselves.
