Capn B's Musings

When I was in second grade, my parents got a divorce. My dad had always worked odd shifts, and even when they were together I hardly got to see him. However, because of the divorce, I was actually able to see my dad MORE, especially after he switched jobs. I was never really upset by the divorce, to be honest, because I somehow knew that my parents were happier this way.

For a while, my dad was overly helpful - almost to an annoying point. While he never really stopped, his anger issues seemed to get worse. Then, when I was a freshman in high school, my sister and him got into a fight. She stopped seeing him every week, even though I continued going over there. Four years later, she still doesn’t see him, but she moved away to college shortly after the incident anyway. 

After the fight, my dad seemed to “wake up.” He started to try to control his anger and realized how grateful he was of the two of us. Whenever he saw either of us, my sister at family events and myself once a week, he tried his best to portray that feeling and showing us he cared. My dad cares for both of us greatly, and I think he just had a hard time showing it. Just as he is grateful for me, I am just as grateful for him and his dorky, quirky-ness. I couldn’t ask for a greater dad. :)

It this day and age, technology is constantly moving forward. In the future, things like hoverboards and bubble “cars” aren’t that inconceivable.

Okay. Cool. Great.

However, a business is made to yes, provide us with cool stuff or a service and junk, but they’re mainly there to make money. In our free-market economy, competition is a HUGE thing. They want to make the next new thing first. For example, video game consoles. Nintendo announced the Wii, so Microsoft and Sony needed a new one too. The result? Sony’s PS3 was rushed. It was supposed to be backwards compatible, but instead they were only able to play PS1 games, and not PS2.

Now, even when competition doesn’t exist, which is hardly ever, and products aren’t rushed, problems still occur. Sometimes you don’t think of every fault or some unexpected fluke occurs. Maybe you do expect a kink, but fixing it may cost too much or cause more problems.

Regardless of how our future is, our future technology will have problems, just like it always has. Maybe sometimes hoverboards sputter out. Their power source, even if unlimited, runs out. Bubbles burst, or can only carry x amount of weight. Maybe they get stuck or go slowly. Who knows what the future might hold?

So, this is my new blog dedicated to my personal journal entries. Some have prompts, others are just whatever is on my mind. If you have any suggestions for prompts or what I should make an entry about, feel free to send me an ask, anonymously or not. Thanks, and enjoy!