The winds of change

This winter so far has not been cold in Newfoundland...but it has been windy. Today, especilly so. Which brought two thoughts to my frost bitten mind:

Firstly, you've all seen small children wearing wearing an adult t-shirt, for whatever reason. They look mildly ridiculous...but in a cute way, the shirt hanging down to their feet, flaring out to their fingertips like some kind of cape. A CAPE!! When i walked home today the wind damn near knocked me over and i m (give or take) 175lbs. That could easily knock over a child. Better yet, with a little bit of courage and creativity, that kind of wind could knock over a child. Well, knocking over is not much fun...well actually it is, but it gets boring after a while. That brings be back to the cape idea.

Perhaps a better word would be kite. If i were to attach a belt and length of rope to a small child's waist wearing one of those aforementioned oversized shirts, i am very confident that they could fly. I miss flying kites and i remember that you actually need very little wind to keep one of those afloat. With the vicious winds that i am currently experiencing i may have found a silver lining and inexhaustable source of entertainment.

Less contrivesailly, i am also torn in such an environment between contact lenses and glasses.

I wear a scarff in thiese wind storms, which redirects my breath on to my glasses lenses and fogs them up, blinding me. However if i wear contacts the moist exposed plastic will harden and become most uncomfortable for the rest of the day. No vision assistance is not an option because i am fairly blind without them and it is hazerdous terrain between here and home.

What is a guy to do?

Well, my suggestion when you get bogged down and frusterated with dilemas like this is quite simple...lets go fly a child, up clo-se to a mile, lets go fly a child.