New Lady at Toastmasters A new woman came to my Toastmasters recently. She’s a very interesting combination or she has a very interesting combination of both confidence and anxiety. When she talks about normal things she’s very very confident, in fact she’s the most confident person I’ve seen in a very very long time. […]
Gold Giving Box
Free Car Wash The other day I was driving around town and I passed by a group of kids having a carwash. They had a few hand-painted signs that said free car wash and that the bottom the sign said donations accepted. Since it looked like a worthy fundraising cause I got a free […]
Hidden Valley Of Women
Backpacking Trip I’ve done a lot of backpacking. I have since I was very very young. As a kid backpacking is fun because you get to you get to get out into the wilderness and sleep in a tent or sleep under the stars, but as an adult it’s rewarding in much different way. […]
Origins Of Modern Civilization
History of Metal I watched a very interesting video a couple days ago about the history of metal. Not heavy metal music but actual metal. The kind of stuff you get out of the ground, melt down and form into tools that you can use. It turns out that the discovery of metal and […]
Dirt Is Important
Two Types of Civilizations If you look back over the long history of human civilizations you’ll find two basic types of civilizations that have popped up over time. The first and most common type the most people think about is the agriculturally based civilizations. These had these cities and these empires that were built […]
Human Motivations
Best Teacher Ever One of the most impressive professors I had in college was somebody that I completely didn’t expect to be impressive. He was a very old guy, he taught philosophy 101. When I started college, I took a bunch of classes in my major and took a bunch of classes that were general […]
Corrupt Kings and Noble Mythology
Boy Scouts When I was a kid I was in Boy Scouts and we had this very old very wise very kind of noble retired scoutmaster. He was never a an actual scoutmaster when I was there by the time I had started when I had joined he had already become retired. He always […]
Homeless Industrial Complex
Ex Non Girlfriend A couple of years ago there was this girl that I was really interested in. She went to my church and so I was trying to do anything I could to get together with her. She invited me to come with her one evening to help feed the homeless at a […]
Underground Metaphysics
Secret Fortress When I was a kid a couple of friends of mine and I were playing around this park near our house and we found this underground fort. Somebody had dug a relatively big holder was the size of a very very small room. They had dug a shelf into one of the […]
Prototype Society
Book Club Recently I have been going to this book club every couple of weeks. It’s a nonfiction non-self-help book club. We read a lot of books, most of them lately have been economic books. The history of economic thought. Some history books. One of the people that come and always contributes a lot […]