View From the Bushes

You may have heard that the mainframe turned 40 today. This is somewhat sobering, since as you probably know, I recently turned 33. I'm not sure why it's sobering. I guess just the fact that anytime I realize that people get together and say stuff like "No one ever expected it to last this long." And it occurs to you that this thing they're talking about isn't that much older than you are, it makes a guy think.

You know people talk all the time about having a mid-life crisis. I think my problem is that in general I have a direction of life crisis about once a month. I think it's a variation of the 'grass is always greener' syndrome, only much more severe. It's not that I think the grass is greener -- on a sub-concious level I know it is, and the desire to find this green grass is so all-consuming that I just about starve because I don't even have enough time to eat the grass I do have.

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross