Tom's Blog

During one of Jeffrey’s earlier visits we bought a Black and Decker food processor from Target for about $50.  We used it during subsequent visits and within a a couple of weeks of his moving in and starting to use it on a more regular basis it broke.  After going online to find replacement parts I discovered reviews of this particular food processor were poor.  Plastic gears and parts that tended to break when used.  So soon we’re going out to buy a quality food processor that should last until we’re to old to cook.

Generally I know better than to buy based on price.  When I buy something I usually go for quality and pay more because it’s really cheaper that way.  A pair of Red Wing boots for $80 I purchased back in the 1980′s still are in good shape.  I just get them resoled periodically.  That’s how rich people stay rich, they buy shoes that last a lifetime and just resole them every few years.

Jeffrey and I went and saw the movie ‘The Road’ Sunday night.  A very dark rather depressing movie, that probably gave a fairly accurate picture of what people would be like if an apocalyptic event occurred that wiped out most life on Earth.  Whatever the event was that threw a thick cloud of ash into the sky and blocked most of the sun from reaching us is never named and probably if something like a super volcano or major meteor strike occurred most people wouldn’t know what happened.  We’re planning to read the book the movie was based on.  Reviews have been exceptionally good for the book and some say it could be the best book written in the last 25 years.

While the story is about the journey the father and son are making to someplace hopefully warmer, really it the backdrop of a world without life that is important.  No sunlight means no plant-life which means no animal life and eventually no human life.

It would be interesting to jump ahead to when the ash has settled and the sun is shining again and the seeds that are dormant in the ground have started to sprout to see what happens to the Earth then.