Uncle Roger's Notebooks of Daily Life
My life is, to me, ripe with frequent challenges, occasional successes, spontaneous laughter, adequate tears, and enough *life* to last me a lifetime. To you, however, it surely seems most pedestrian. And therefore, I recycle the name I used previously and call this my Notebooks of Daily Life. Daily, because it's everyday in nature, ordinary. These conglomeration of events that are my life are of interest to me because I live it, perhaps mildly so to those who are touched by it, and could only be of perverse, morbid curiosity to anyone else. Yet, I offer them here nonetheless. Make of them what you will, and perhaps you can learn from my mistakes.
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Monday, February 28, 2005
Many years ago, my brother and I were tooling about (on 7th avenue, to be exact) when I spotted a window.
More specifically, the window that caught my attention was a large picture window that opened by pivotting at the midpoint of its sides. I had never seen a window that large that opened before, and was rather impressed by the functionality. I tried to point it out to my brother, but the (possibly excessive) speed at which we were travelling and the fact that I was driving at the time meant that what came out of my mouth was basically, "Ooh, window!"
Well, Stanley thought that was hilarious -- that I was excited by the sight of something as ordinary as a window. He continued to ridicule me over the years because of that incident.
I find it ironic that now, as a homeowner, such seemingly mundane things are actually quite important. We recently had all of our windows replaced, at a cost of many thousands of dollars, and knowing that such windows exist is extremely relevant.
As (if?) Stanley reaches the point where he is considering purchasing a home, I suspect he will be all the poorer for not having paid attention to mundane, yet incredibly expensive things like windows.
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