Mistakes (lessons from a magic show)

"The lack of avoidable mistakes is the lack of positive assumption" - Trent Williams, 2009.

This I know, mistakes will happen, no matter what you expect. That's why you should "Expect the worst. Prepare for the worst." (another quote I have deceived myself into believing is possibly original).

I was painfully reminded of this truth at my annual children's magic show (which this year was a clown and magic show). I have believed time and time again that certain things can be done without practice, it isn't true. Other assumptions that I have briefly entertained are that the right words will magically come into my mouth at the right time for the right situation, that hecklers don't exist, that all children are mostly good, and that the little details (like what the clowns will do and when) will fall into place, you guessed it, magically (automatically).

Moral:

Minimize assumptions, the positive ones that is. Dreaming is only five times better than doing when you do what you have dreamt.

Back again (for a little while at least),

- Trent

Correct, But Not Politically

Start the week off right

and attend the church of your choosing.

- Bumper Sticker

How politically correct can you get... and still get it wrong?

While most bumper stickers are known for speaking nuggets of truth, this one tries, and fails, at balancing on the ever slipery path of political correctness. A few obvious mistakes: the word "church" needs changing, maybe "place of worship" would work, and "attend", doesn't that imply the biased view that after finding your choice of faith's "meeting house" you should continue going to that same "religious assembly"? Another question: who's to say that starting the week off right is done by attending a "religious meeting"?

Conclusion:

No matter how we attack this ridiculous bumper sticker there is something to be said for the owner; he actually had a message on his vehicle. The moral to the tale is: put a nice and attractive bumper sticker on a nice and attractive vehicle with a nice attractive scripture or saying that expresses exactly the, according to political correctness, not-so-nice-or-attractive truth.

Paused, But Not Forsaken

A magic show in the making... 

A book in the plotting...

A blog that I'm neglecting...

That's what I'm currently doing, that and I'm thinking about leaving the Conservatives. More on that later...

But know this: you are not forgotten!

- Trent

Plodding on, more slowly than surely.