I recently built a nice shaded patio area for the front of my office; I even salvaged a really nice cushioned office chair that someone threw away because the bottom broke. I used a cargo strap and hung it from a concrete T-wall; it’s like my humble throne.

When it’s slow, I like to sit outside and just enjoy the breeze as I watch the world (such as it is) go by. I suppose that my quiet time can be considered a form of meditation, whatever it’s called, I am a firm believer that it is how I have conceived many of my most original and useful thoughts. It was perched on my little chair that I dreamed up the business that I am in the process of trying to start, and it also serves as a thinking-platz for a few of the other guys in the shop around here.

The other day as I sat out watching the camouflage netting waft in the breeze, the thought wandered into my head about what sort of person I would like to be stuck with on a desert island. Of course I imagined the usual scenarios with a few of the girls that I know, but as attractive as the fantasy was, the reality is that it would be entirely too complicated. Just then one of my more illustrious co-workers walked, or rather galumphed his way past commenting loudly to himself and to anyone else within earshot, “Man, I’m tired. I’m gonna go take a crap! Ahhhhh….”He stomped off to the porta-john loudly slurping his umpteenth coke of the day.

It was just then that it occurred to me that I had been asking the wrong question; rather than what sort of person I WOULD like to be stuck on an island with, what sort of person would I NOT want to be stuck with. Maybe with a little bit more refinement, this is a thought that I could apply more to my life. I asked my hippie-philosopher friend who also happens to be a bachelor for his thoughts on the matter. Together we started making a list of the attributes that we would NOT like in a girlfriend/wife/whatever. *****EDITED*****

After further consideration, I narrowed my "negative, Ghostrider!" criteria list down to two major items so far:



Ambition and greed to the point of moral blindness (insanity?) and the refusal to grow up and act one's age are major no-no's in Pete's book. To be continued. Maybe.