February 28,2017 – Decelerating

Understanding the physics of constant velocity and change still does not explain why acceleration is so exhilarating.  Nothing like rolling on the accelerator and surging past a slow car on a two-lane road, if only controlled deceleration produced the same endorphins….  Current velocity = 0.  Yesterday’s sprained ankle has me holed up in a hotel room with a bag of ice, waiting for the swelling to subside.  Where I am is surrounded by time-share resorts.  Which is strange when you think of it, because what you are really paying for in a time-share is a commitment to slow yourself down and take a regular vacation.  Even the introduction sales are based on your time.  I could have gotten discount amusement part tickets if I was willing to give some of my time, to a time-share resort sales pitch…  Perhaps it’s just me but I don’t feel the thrill of parasympathetic deceleration as much as the adrenaline of acceleration.  Yet we must slow down lest we break ourselves.  

The time itself is all good, because the plan was to slow down this week anyways.  Chris will be joining me tonight in Orlando and we plan to spend the week avoiding 300 plus mile days and colleges.  Instead, we will be looking for pirate history, and spending at least one day in the creative world of J.K. Rowling.

The blog may run slow this week, as I will have someone else to talk too….