Monday, September 15, 2008

A Plea to Department Stores

To all the owners/managers/CEOs of department stores:

Here is an idea. Put a "man room" in each store. If you want to men to be patient while the wife shops. A man room should contain a large screen high definition television and a big couch.

Come on, guys, let's do this thing.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

How We Spnd Our Time

Being in graduate school has made me focus on time management. This semester I am taking two classes, with about 8 gazillion pages to read each week, along with various writing assignments. I am not complaining, but time has been precious, which is probably why I have not blogged in a while.

When I pastored a church, I had to find time for the duties that I had, preaching being the primary consumer of my time then. When I worked a cubicle job, I had to manage my time as well.

It is interesting that we are so focused on wealth in this country, because every single person, rich or poor, has the same amount of time each day: 24 hours, or 1440 minutes, or 86,400 seconds. There are certain things we need to do: eat, sleep, bathe. These take time, but not all our time. How do we spend the other time we have? With family? Mindlessly surfing the Internet or watching brain eating TV?

I used to spend a great deal of time at TheOoze, which is a nice website, but a complete waste of time. I used to watch hours of mindless TV. I have decided this semester that I will limit my TV intake to two main shows: Prison Break and The Office.

How do you spend your time? Are you productive or mindless?