Sat, 02 Jun 2007

A Short Break . . .

I'm sitting here on a Saturday between household chores, sort of cooling down after one which took far longer than it needed to. I have my PowerBook and have looked at my e-mail, checked out the website, bounced around some Google ads, and am generally just piddling. In my mind is the nagging feeling that I want to blog about something, but I just don't have anything interesting on my list of things. I have checked an nothing really jumped out at me. But I do feel like writing, so you get some random thoughts.

Teens and Smoking . . .

Earlier in the week, I heard a piece on NPR which was interesting enough for me to get out the digital voice recorder and make a note about. It was about teens and smoking -- about how advertising campaigns which don't work. In fact, the piece seemed to indicate that the campaigns might even promote teen smoking! One of the interesting things that the teens interviewed in the piece said was that they smoke to reduce their stress. This set off bells in my mind, and is the major reason I recorded a thought about this.

It we want to reduce teen smoking, it seems logical that we would want to attack the reasons for teen smoking. These teens seemed to say it was stress. The teenage years can be very stressful. Things are going crazy in your body and you have this overwhelming need to fit in, to succeed. As parents of teens, we need to work to reduce this stress in hopes of keeping teens from smoking.

Overtime . . .

I have to spend some weekend time working. I don't really mind all that much since the family is in Europe. I spent about 3 hours this morning and probably need to put in about that many more hours in the remainder of the weekend. Not much to say here, just want to say it because it's on my mind.

Man with TB . . .

This brings to mind that we might not worry about whether it's our time to go, but whether it's someone else's time -- like the bus driver or airline pilot. It also brings to mind a thought about the chance meeting which could change your life. Through no fault of your own, you could be exposed to a disease, hit by a stray bullet, or involved in other life-changing events because of something happening in someone else's life.

Moving on . . .

I think I have just about used up my break time. If I sit for too long, I'll loose what little ambition I have and probably remain here piddling for much too long. I might be back. Something is still nagging at the back of my mind urging me to write -- maybe not on the blog, but it's there.

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