I woke up at 1AM yesterday and
began a coughing fit that wouldn’t stop for more than an hour. After inhaling steam, moving my humidifier
closer, propping myself up to basically a sitting position, taking Dayquil (at
night), drinking hot cocoa, drinking cold water, having a cough drop, and
forcing myself to hold in coughs, I still couldn’t get it to quit. It really sucks sleeping on my back
(especially propped up) because I’m a front sleeper. Of course, they tell you to sit up when you
have a cough, so I did. They say it lets
the fluid drain down your throat better because of gravity.
Then I had a thought.
If I slept on my face, wouldn’t
that prevent the stuff from running down my throat (thus causing me to cough)
in the first place?
No, the cough didn’t stop, but
it slowed to the point where I could manage to fall asleep again.
You can call me sentimental, but
when it comes to anything I always count on the old and dependable stuff. I listen to music from the 60s, 70s, 80s, and
90s (although mostly 70s and 80s), I have an MP3 player instead of an iPod, I
have had the same t-shirts for three years, I’ve got a laptop from 2011, a car
from 1998 (which I still can’t drive alone until December), and a mind that
prefers the old-fashioned way of working things out instead of memorizing
formulas and answers and definitions and such.
None of that stuff ever lets me
down as much as modern things do.
Facebook screws up way more often than my MP3 player does. My '98 Chevy Blazer is nearing 129 thousand miles. From what I've heard a heck of a lot of modern Toyotas aren't making 10 thousand. The United States is still giving me the
freedoms that people in most nations across the globe don’t have.
Now, this may be because I sleep on my face too much, but the way I see it, what could be wrong with good
old dependable punctuation?
At first I was nodding and agreeing and genuinely thinking, "Wow, this is a really good point. Atta boy for throwin' back to the good ol' days!" And then I saw the punctuation comment. I really like how you introduced it, but I don't like that you did. This society and our world and everything ever is based on change. Before the mp3, there were CDs and before that, cassettes, and before that records and before that you had to go to hear the music. Before your fancy driving machine, we had carts and horses and oxen, etc. Before punctuation, we had hieroglyphics and pictures and cave walls. When you say good "old" punctuation, how old are you going back? At one point, everything was different. And in some point in the future, everything will be different.
ReplyDeleteI still listen to CDs and I have a few cassettes, but the only tape player I have is in my car and I've got all the good songs from those cassettes on CD. I would rather walk than drive, but then the car is a lot better if you've got a long way to go. And hieroglyphics and cave painting is pre-Jesus. That doesn't even count in anything but history and science.
ReplyDeleteBut to clarify, I was talking about things that are old compared to current times.
I thought this was a very entertaining blog post, and I was happy to find out that someone else enjoys kickin' it old school with 60s/70s/80s/90s music as much as I do! :) And yes, I also find that new creations from society-- cars that don't make it past 10,000 miles, social media, and whatever shows are playing on MTV now-- just like not using punctuation, make us sound pretty stupid.
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