Riding in the Way-Back Machine

“Brandy” by Looking Glass is one of my all time favorite songs. Every time it comes on the radio, I’m transported back to my happy teenage place. Not the awkward, embarrassing, inferiority complex laden moments of those years, but back to the fun, free, light times. I recently heard my time-travel song while driving home from work. The fact that it still comes on the radio as frequently as it does--after 38 years--makes me think it must have a similar effect on lots of other people.

When I got home I looked through a stack of old albums, and found it. I found several other good albums like Elton John’s “Yellow Brick Road”, Chicago, Cat Stevens, Neil Young, America and others. I don’t have a turntable to listen to them on, but I can’t seem to let go of them either. I guess I don’t have to be able to listen to them; I feel a little younger just looking through them. Can you dig it?

Out with the Old, In with the New

   

The Hotel Phillips in Bartlesville, OK has closed its doors after almost six decades. It was the required hotel for visiting out-of-town employees of the oil company where I work (at the moment). But now there's a new, bigger, better hotel located next door to our office complex. The Hilton Garden Inn is the new required hotel for our company.

From comments by some of those fellow employees and some of the reviews I've seen, it may have been time for her to take a break; she was getting worn out and run down. The good news for the Hotel Phillips? There are plans for the 144 hotel rooms to be converted to 80 to 90 apartments for renters over 55-years of age, with 20 percent of the units available to "lower income seniors." That sounds like a nice and fitting way for the old hotel to go into semi-retirement; an encore career of sorts for her.

Everything changes. The best we can hope is that most of the changes are positive. That's my hope for this historic building.
Hmm, I wonder what in my life needs to be retired, or even better, re-purposed.

I'm an ISFJ; what about you?

I took the Myers Briggs Personality Test as an assignment for an online

course I'm taking called, "Making Age an Asset in Your Job Search".  So far it's a great course.

I've taken this personality test a couple of times over the years but had forgotten the outcome, so it was fun doing it again. It's amazing how these tests can come close to nailing a personality.

ISFJ - "Conservator". Desires to be of service and to minister to individual needs - very loyal. 13.8% of total population.

Myers-Briggs Personality Test at SimilarMinds.com

The Baby Boomer Generation: Boomers Are Passing the Dutchie Again

Okay I admit I never heard them called Dutchies--doobies, yes; dutchies, no--but, anyway I thought this was interesting. That's all--just interesting.
The Baby Boomer Generation: Boomers Are Passing the Dutchie Again

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The Baby Boomer Generation: Boomers get SHAFTED, etc.

The Baby Boomer Generation: Boomers get SHAFTED, etc.

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