We have probably exhausted the “Hiking in Extreme Heat” subject. What else can we say other than be prepared and be safe.
But let’s consider our Time Bank discussion. I presented the Time Bank as time-dollars each of us can choose to spend wherever we like. What if we approached our free time from an Inventory Control perspective. The best way I can describe it, is using this example:
Suppose you owned a new car dealership. You would have a parts department and a service department, along with your vehicle sales department.
If your parts manager has 100 tires in inventory today, and he sells none, tomorrow morning he will still have 100 tires in inventory to sell.
Your service manager is different. He sells technician hours. The service manager charges his customers an hourly rate for the time his technicians work on their cars. Let’s say he has 10 technicians who work 8 hours per day. He can sell 80 hours of technician time everyday to his customers. If all the customer cars are completed at 3 PM and no new work comes in, he will have 10 technicians doing nothing for two hours. Thats 20 hours of available technician time to sell, that he will not sell. And at 5 PM when he closes his shop, unlike the parts managers who can sell his tires tomorrow, those 20 hours to sell are gone forever. Nada. Poof.
So, if we muddle around for 8 hours on Saturday because we are bored, depressed, had to cancel our hike due to a 100 year flood, or whatever reason and we do nothing productive or of real value to us, and instead mindlessly watch TV, surf the web for no real purpose, or otherwise completely waste our time, those 8 hours are gone forever. We cannot recapture them and use them later.
This becomes more apparent as we get older. I am 65, so if my life are the grains of sand in an hour glass, most of my grains are at the bottom of the glass. The remaining hours of my life, which I cannot know how many remain, are sliding from the top to the bottom of my hour glass at an alarming rate. The good news for me, I am okay with it, because I haven’t wasted too many of those hours that now live at the bottom of the hour glass.
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