I had a horrible dream last night. So I woke up early telling my wife, Patty, about it while she was still asleep. She barely listened I suppose. I don't think there's anything to dreams. And I never do. I think dreams are merely a way to work out all of the clutter and crap in your subconscious mind. I know some people call them stress dreams. But I haven't had a whole lot of stress in my life lately. It's almost like your conscious mind shuts down when you go to sleep and your subconscious mind wakes up and drinks his coffee and goes to work as a superhero. Or so he thinks he's one. Except, this guy is crazy! He will always take you places far and wide and makes unimaginable things happen. He's a nut! I don't pay any attention to him or my dreams. They mean nothing! Absolutely nothing, okay! Lol.
Anyway, I have to admit that I have been struggling this year to find some inspiration to write my annual Christmas blog called, "College Town At Christmas" which usually centers around our fair city of Bowling Green, Ky., with a population of about 65,00-70,000 citizens now. Yes, our town is booming! Our local college of Western Kentucky University is booming too! Our WKU football team just beat Memphis in the Boca Raton Bowl in Florida, 51-31. Another great victory for WKU and Bowling Green!
But I will say that this holiday season has been an interesting one for Patty and I. Mainly, I would say it's about new technology for all of us living in today's modern society. As we all know, things are not the same and never will be. (Of course, being Republicans, we have been elated that President-Elect Donald Trump won the presidential election recently! I lost 12 Facebook friends on social media because of my beliefs or because of way my way of thinking. I guess I was an asshole to some of my friends on FB or they were an asshole to me. I do give them my apologies though-boo hoo!) But back to technology. I think the biggest thing I have been thinking about this year is how we as a society are adapting and using all of the technologies available to us in general way. For instance, Patty and I did all of our Christmas shopping on-line this year mainly with Amazon. It appears that UPS, FedEx and the USPS are booming these days too! Our world has become what people have been predicting for years-a virtual high tech society with people communicating in incredible ways and sending each others packages at lightning speed without even having to leave your home or office. And lately, we have been ordering our groceries from Kroger on-line and picking them up too. And Patty and I just received an Amazon Fire table as a Christmas gift from her daughter in North Carolina yesterday. So we already have WiFi high speed-internet, a desk top computer, iPhone's and now we have the tablets! It appears that everyone in society is connected to each other in more ways than one these days. Also, I got a new work truck a couple months ago and it came with six months worth of free Sirius satellite radio. I have been really in tune with politics lately listening to POTUS and Fox Headline News. And Patty and I have not even tapped into the new television technologies yet such as Hulu or Amazon. We're still on Time-Warner/Spectrum but they are coming along with great, new technologies also.
But the bottom line as far as I can tell, is that somehow, somewhere we are still able to find a lot of Christmas spirit in our college town as we muddle through our high tech society which is connected to the world in a much greater way. People still listen to Christmas music, decorate (probably not as much as they did back in the 60's, 70's and 80's), shop at the mall, wrap presents, give gifts, bake cookies, family members traveling in from out of town, mail Christmas cards, have family Christmas dinners and parties and attend church together. And the best thing about this year, President-Elect Donald Trump says he going to bring back saying "Merry
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