Star Wars Thought

It's long established canon that Vader has some measure of external monitoriing and controls on his "suit". And, in a bit of stuff I won't argue, we can equally see from Episode 3 that he has a means of internal biomechanical control over some functions a la the 1984 Terminator drop down menus. Which implies, somewhere in the Empire is a job code for "Sith Lord Bio Suit Technician" who helps with all this. Leading to the following two random thoughts" " My Lord, you must hydrate more. And, your heavy metal and tritium levels are far too high..." *cringing knowing the rebuff that is about to come.* and "Well, we're just going to turn it off and turn it on again, Lord Vader. You'll lose about 5 minutes, but a hard reboot always helps."

Gratitude and Perspectives

Sometimes people suck. They annoy you. Do something irritating, or worse antagonistic. We're all quick vent about it, often for days. Sometimes - more often than the first, actually - they are decent, and generous, and downright amazing, even when they don't have to be. For example, a customer service call I just had where someone went over and above on not just the initial issue (which was not their fault at all, but a procedural double-check), but another thing where he went over and above, even without having to. Celebrate and talk about the people and places who stand out, more than the ones that bother you. If we all worked on that - myself, most of all - maybe it would help our perspectives.