It seems like the older I get… the more it is… I feel the need for speed.  I want to go fast in my car.  I want to drive an airplane.  I like the rush.  The swift.  The quick.  But I will get to that in a minute.

Hundreds of thousands of years ago… 200,000 years ago… to be succinct… archaic Homo Sapiens walked the earth.  They did things like use tools.  They hunted.  And made cave drawings.

How do we know this?  Scientific evidence, in the way of carbon dated fossils, and DNA.  Modern science.  The same scientific laws that bring you electricity, and contact lenses.  The same kind that can make airplanes fly in the sky and submarines go way deep in the ocean.  But perhaps…..  I’ll talk more about that some other night.

Tonight is the story of Thor and Og, a couple of cavemen from long, long, ago.  They were best friends.  But they lived far apart… on opposite sides of the big muddy hole.

When they needed to talk to one another… they would take out huge stone tablets, and carve out their thoughts.

Once they would fill the slab… (with thoughts like… “Ugghhhh.”  Or… “Ugggghhhhhhh.”)… they’d walk through the gully, and deliver the letter. Good old Og and  Thor.  Buddies.  Pals.

Carved-Out-Stone-Tablet kind of pals.

This took a long, long, long, long time to pass information back and forth to each other.  It was hard.  Difficult.  Frustrating.  But they pressed on.  The chiseled.  They walked.  They waited.

So. Now that you have this picture fixed squarely in your mind… I will say this.

My rural internet connection was only slightly faster than Thor and Og’s method of communication.  Barely faster.

I have LONG felt the need for speed.

Oh we tried.  Hughes Net.  Sprint air cards.  Satellite.    ATT wireless cards.  Centurylink “DSL”… (at the very end of their DSL lines… with no plans to expand. )  I prayed to the internet gods.  No.  Nope.  Nothing.  Not Direct TV.  Not Frontier.  Nothing.

But today, on a friend’s suggestion… I gave BluSky  Wireless a call.  And. How about this?  Caveman no more.

I actually watched a YouTube video in my house.  Yes.  I really did.  And tonight…. I installed a Roku… and I am watching Netflix on our TVs.    Caveman no more.

I have been bouncing around the house like a crazy fool….. running software updates on my computers…  buying apps for my iPad.  And, as mentioned before, I am streaming movies.  I keep singing the theme song for the Flintstones…at the top of my lungs.  Then I chant… “I’m watching Netflix.  I’m watching Netflix.”   This is better than finding a cure for the common cold.  Way better.

The moral of the story?
Good things come to those who wait?
Patience is a virtue?
Slow and steady wins the race?

I think not.

The moral of the story is this.  Energy equals mass times the speed of light, squared.  E=mc2

Yeah Baby.  Speed of Light.   The need for speed.   Yabba Dabba Doo.

“Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.” – Arthur Schopenhauer