Eastern Time Zone
Things I put on my to-do list for this year.
1. Have third child. Check.
2. Run 13 miles (in one run). Check.
3. Transfer old home movies from VHS to DVD. Not done.
4. Watch first 4 seasons of The Sopranos. Check.
5. Step foot in Iowa. Check.
I am on a layover right now on my way back from eastern Iowa, Cedar Rapids to be specific. It’s my first time in Iowa and an overall good trip. Nice people. Pretty countryside. Great airport.
Funny but the first thing I thought of when I landed in Cincinnati was “Ahh. Back in eastern time zone. Good old EST, I missed you. You are the BEST time zone in the WORLD.”
The second thing I thought of while in the little shuttle bus going from one terminal to another was “Ahh. Big airplanes.” The flight from East Iowa Airport to Cinci is short and they use a small jet. But the flight from Ohio to Boston is a big, fat, stand-fully-erect-in-the-aisle first-class-section aircraft. Nothing against the smaller ones, but I like the larger planes.
So anyway, back to the time zone. I never realized this but I like the Eastern Time zone. The stock market wakes up on this zone. Do you like how I use the term “zone” like it’s some kind of buzzword? The stock market is one reason to like it. I can’t think of any other reason right now but I am sure there are hundreds.
So there. A completely meaningless thought. A meaningless post. One in a long line of totally worthless musings in my futile attempt to write down random thoughts for practically no one to read.
You want another one? Ok. Here it is. I hate to have anything in my pockets. Loose change, chapstick, mints or gum, papers, my wallet, cell phone. I hate it. Jeans, slacks, khakis, shorts, sweats, any kind of pantaloons and I don’t like to have anything there. It weighs me down and I just don’t like it.
You want more? I can’t stand the show Law and Order. I don’t get it. I don’t see what makes it so great that it has to show on 6 cable channels. I swear it is playing 24 hours a day on a cable channel somewhere. I tried watching it and I don’t like it. And that is hard to do. My sense of entertainment is pretty shallow – I love American Idol, I laugh while watching Funniest Home Videos, I am glued to Survivor. But Law and Order just doesn’t do it for me.