Weekend Wrap-up - I will wear suits and I will camp - #4 & #5

I take a break at the weekend to let my whims percolate. This weekend I did have some good ones though. Wearing suits and camping. I know, quite disparate, no?

Here's how that all came about. I will start with the suits.

Most days my work uniform is jeans and a dress shirt or jeans and a sweater. Sometimes jeans and a t shirt. Notice a pattern? Yeah, jeans. Not suits. Jeans. Well, last Monday I wore a suit to work for a client meeting. Then by some miraculous misfortune, I had to wear a suit again. On a Friday. In the same week! Ugh. What's my aversion, you ask? Well, mostly I find suits uncomfortable. They're not stretchy. You have to wear a tie. You can't bend over comfortably. The list goes on and on. But you see, they also look really cool. Sad irony, no? So since I like looking cool, and suits are universally accepted as appropriate attire, I've decided that I will start to embrace suits and wear them more often. Plus this gives me an excuse to go shopping.

So, where does nature come in? Well, the last couple of weeks my wife and I have been going to various parks and walking. It's autumn so it's nice to see the leaves changing and the weather has been lovely so being outside is just what we should be. This was a compromise you see, as I don't really care for nature activities. Mostly because of bugs, sweating and dirt. I really don't like dirt, and especially mud. I like shoes and nice shoes and mud just don't mix. Back to the nature discussion. My wife likes to walk in nature. She likes the outdoors. I sort of don't. So what do we do? Well, the few parks that we've visited actually had paved or boardwalked paths. That means no mud. It's also only been around 60 degrees, which means pretty much no bugs nor sweating. Those all combined to make our nature days actually rather awesome. Which of course made me want to explore more parks and eventually led me to the notion of camping. I know, right?!? I will not put the cart ahead of the horse here and grow a beard and outfit myself with gear appropriate for Sir Edmund Hillary. There are however some camp sites with cabins. Cabins that you can park your car near and walk across a paved lot to! Meaning no mud! That sort of camping I think I can do. If not, then maybe a nice hotel with a view of a forest or something. We'll see.

#3 I will start relying more on my sense of smell when judging things.

I think we can all agree that humans have a strong sense of smell and use it primary for obvious things, like avoiding smelly people or being drawn to the aroma of flowers or whatever. By and large though, our sense of smell I would say is just simply under utilized. In fact, smell is so powerful, it could make a powerful judging tool. I should be more specific when I qualify so broadly, but I mean this really in the context of eating, and even more specifically in the context of eating at smelly restaurants. Here's the thing, you see, I like to eat. I like good food and ambiance and all that goes with creating a fulfilling dining experience. And I'm not a snooty foodie by any means either. I love food cart food as much as Michelin star joints, and in fact, if I really think about it, I would say I know more about what I don't want in dining than what I do. So, with that, after eating at a stinky restaurant today, I have decided to no longer do such thing again.

Look, I spend A LOT of money on my clothes. I like their natural smell. I also like food and it's smell. What I don't like is when the food's smell gets stuck on my clothes and I smell like say a fucking gyro for hours after I eat one! That is totally not cool. Ventilation exists for a reason, as does Febreze. But since I will not use Febreze on $300 jeans, then open some windows at your stinky restaurant or I'm not coming back. Yes you, crepe place, gyro joint and fried fish bar. Good day sir! I declare on this global platform, for you and me, smelly restaurants, I'm afraid it's over.

#2 I'm going to randomly send people presents

Today I got a box in the mail at work. And though my first thought is always that it's a bomb, reality of my value to the world sets in and I come to the conclusion that it's likely some shitty chotchke from a vendor of some sort. So anyway, I opened it and lo and behold, it was t-shirts from one of my favorite people on earth! He sent me 2 t-shirts, one he designed and one I likely will never wear. But being a "thought that counts" sort of guy, I absolutely loved them. I mean, who doesn't like getting things in the mail, right? So with this inspiration, I decided today that I will start randomly sending people things in the mail. Safe things, like books or art or things they'd like. I'll become known as the Unagifter. Maybe I'll even get a cool mugshot of me in a hoodie and sunglasses? Who knows? I always prefer to give gifts than receive them anyway because well, most people are shitty gift givers and I'm pretty good at it. I'm not being arrogant, it's just true. Ask those who have gotten gifts from me. They're awesome.

This is exciting. I will start this weekend!

#1 - Blog Idea #1

This blog was actually a semi-drunken whim from last Saturday night, so while not actually today's whim, I did at least follow through with it! Until I get too bored or run out of amazing ideas I suppose.