randomThoughts
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11_18_2009 Watching WWII in HD
It occurs to me that our fathers die with us.
My meaning:
With the death of my father in 2000, the details of my father's life are now left in my care. When I die, all the details of his abilities. his life experience, his views, his opinions and the few childhood memories he related to me will die with me. There will be no record and no one will care any longer... and I will be next.
While we are living it, every tiny detail of our lives seem so important at they time they happen.
I forgot to pick up the mail.
I need to get up early tomorrow.
Take the dog to the vet.
We are running low on bread.
Mow the lawn.
Mulch the flower beds.
Don't water the lawn because of the drought restrictions.
When welding aluminum rivets for a fuel tank, use flux, heat until the head melts and the surface tension of the aluminum pulls it into a BB-sized ball. Cool, clean, add flux and weld to the aluminum sheet that it protrudes through.
In 50 years everything we know. All the hard=learned lessons. Everything is gone.
This is not necessarily a bad thing, after all, the world changes so much in 50 years that most of the hard-learned lessons are no longer relevant.