But to see for yourself, try the following simulation:
Next weekend, wake up at 5 am. At 6:30, start staring at this picture for 3 hours. Go eat breakfast. After you eat, play washers for 5 hours.
A few hours before sunset, go back to the computer and sit for a few more hours staring only this picture. At sunset, go play washers for 5 more hours.
After 5 hours of sleep, do the same thing Sunday morning. You can quit sometime around noon and take a shower.
- There's a lot about government I just don't get. While I've always been entranced with the law, I still search for reasoning behind action.
Last Saturday, I went to Wal-Mart to get my license. I learned a few days prior that I had to pass a hunter's safety course and carry proof in case we got stopped by a game warden. Since I did not have to present proof of hunter's education to obtain a license, I figured I'd get the license and then take an on-line course. Sunday, I learned that I could take the test but I'd also have to do a 4-5 hour field trip to satisfy minimal requirements, such a marksmanship. There's no way I could do that by the time we were going to Valley Mills. Friday morning, I learned that I could request a deferral and still hunt within the law. Before I did that, however, I remembered that I had taken, and passed, the test when I was fifteen years old and in Boy Scouts. I called Texas Parks & Wildlife and within five minutes, I had requisite proof that I was a responsible and safe hunter.
To bottom line the story, the State of Texas deemed that I, at the age of fifteen, was safe enough to handle a loaded weapon but not capable of driving an automobile.
Through the lifetime exemption granted after passing the course for the first time, the State of Texas further deemed that I would retain the same information for the rest of my life.
Brilliant.
[Yes, I fully understand the funding mechanism of renewal fees. But there should be more to public safety than a perpetual fiscal function.]
When Melissa verified this absurdity, we both commented our surprise that in Texas, hunter's licenses aren't distributed along with birth certificates.
- I figured out early Saturday morning that I lead a very "The Importance of Being Earnest" life.
I fully enjoy the availability of urban resources; I am completely comfortable with the ease of consumerism and the preppy lifestyle I've chosen. I am a city boy when I'm in the city.
When I'm in the country, I fully enjoy the extraction of many modern facilities; I am completely comfortable with inconvenience caused by rural isolation. I am a country boy when I'm in the country.
Actually, I'm somewhere in the middle. I enjoy wearing my boots and a Brooks Brothers shirt. I enjoy sitting around a campfire and checking e-mail, sending text messages, and checking football scores with the same wireless device.
- Most of my hobbies often require waking well before dawn. While participating in those hobbies [hiking, golf, hunting, etc.], I am more than happy to sacrifice many hours of sleep. When the alarm goes off, I don't need a snooze button to delay rising.
But ask me to wake up after sunrise and go to a place where I can earn a living to help pay for those hobbies and I am suddenly always tired and must hit the snooze button a couple of times before I can get going.
I don't get it.
