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FIELD NOTES

Seeing the Future!

James Wantz, DTM

Do you want to see the future? I do! to see the future was so that I could see ALL

I recently bought a crystal ball so I could the projects I had no access to in Pathways
see the future. I’d done my research by beyond the Level I was working on. I wanted
watching movies and TV shows: Labyrinth, to see everything, not just what Toastmasters
Lord of the Rings, Fox News, etc. I knew gave me access to at the moment. (Yeah, I

the pitfalls to avoid - no Alexa or Siri or was one of those kids that bought the x-ray
Huawei because they are just the evil Eye vision glasses to see through walls.) I want
of Sauron by a different name - and I knew it all, and I want it now!
what to look forward to - the future, duh!! You may have noticed the copious use

When the delivery driver dropped off my of the past tense in the above paragraph.
package I could not wait to open it (...until I Yep, I am no longer enamored with my
made a video of the unboxing which I will device. Oh it showed me the future - you
post to YouTube...because nothing is more bet it did! Because of the curvature of the

exciting than watching someone else open glass it magnified the small print on the
a box of merchandise!). EFFD contract which I’d had to sign to get
Inside was my new Entertaining Fun my device. I saw the future! It was one large
Future Device (EFFD). It was glorious. It monthly subscription fee for the EFFD

was wonderful. It was all mine. I unpacked service charged to my credit card (I didn’t
it, polished it, positioned it (apparently it realize I’d signed up for). Oh yeah, I got
needed a clear view of the southern sky) EFFD.
and planted myself in front of it eagerly Isn’t that how it is? You find a great vase

waiting for what it would tell me about my at a garage sale, rub it, and think that the
future. Oh the plans I had for that EFFD - nice genie will give you 3 wishes. Instead
investments to make, what speech would win you end up shuffling around as an undead
the International Speech contest, and where zombie in love with a raisin on a deserted

I left my car keys (because I couldn’t go to giant crab infested island! (Totally not what
work without them...and it was a Sunday I wished for.) Or...you think that you can see
night). the future and instead you get EFFD.
But the absolutely biggest reason I wanted But the main reason I’m frankly irritated

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