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Rants: On getting slower. Unsmrt-erer.
Sun, 14 Jan 2007

This last year I found myself on several occasions trying to remember something I very much know I could recall on demand a couple years ago. After wrapping up two long full days of baby-classes I'm sure that I could absorb and process much more information when back in school. I imagine like anything else those are skills - muscles needing flexing - and so with day to day life post-school you get lazier in your mass cram abilities. But damn, it does make you feel a little slower...

Some future day I hope to remember to tell our grown up child: You won't understand this but we were on top of things once; after raising a baby and managing its poop and food and temperature and every minutia in its life for years at a time, of course we lose the ability to be objective and rational. Thats how I think it'll go anyway .. these two days of learning the stages of labor and delivery and how to deal with scary body things, and what to do after you get home (how to swaddle and diaper a squirmy baby :), and how to expect to lose parts of your life now over to taking care of a baby... it does make you wonder, and you know.. makes you excited. With only some 5 weeks to go, we're starting to want the baby right now .... gorramnit.

But anyway, the reason I'm posting today -- when you go on a trip and take 7000 photos with your digital camera, only send a few per day to your friends. Or better yet - take only 10 or 20 per day, of interesting things. Always including people, or something exceptional. No need to take pictures of your toilet or food, and if you do.. don't send them to friends. Spare them :) But save yourself -- you won't want to look over those thousands of photos down the road. (On the other hand maybe take a million photos and rely on good solid not-invented-yet photo management software to auto-pick interesting scenes...)

Anyway, whew, wiped out after long classes :)

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