Driving Test

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Raoul’s Two Cents: October 10, 2025

Carefree Future

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I woke up with another strange dream. This time it was about the future.

Setting: An immaculately clean well-lit room with a 360 degree computer screen hovering around me with an endless number of browser windows — each containing different topics, with the most relevant topic enlarged in the center.

Me: (Yawn!) Good morning Jeeves!

Jeeves, my AI Home Robot: Good morning sir. I trust you had a good sleep.

How’s my health this morning?

Relatively good. Your blood pressure is normal despite that little morsel of fat you took from that pork chop last night. You’ve been a naughty boy, sir.

I guess I cheated a little. (Smiling mischievously). What’s happening in the world, right now?

Congress is still fighting over the budget. The temperature outside’s still rather warm … unusual for October. The 10 Fwy is locked up due to a car chase with a white Ford Bronco. There is a sale at Aldi’s — salmon is 50% off — only 10 pieces left, you better hurry.

Can you have them deliver 3 packets of salmon?

Certainly … It’s done!

Anything that demands my attention this morning?

Your wife has gone shopping. She needs extra cash to buy another Lambourghini. And the kids are going on a cruise so they won’t be bothering you for a while.

Please send a couple of millions to my wife’s account and text my kids how I miss them.

Certainly … done!
Oh by the way, your client from Pasadena wants a video made by 3pm. Your Travelingboy.com website needs a new article about Mars.

Could you get Coppola to handle the video and could you have Elon do the Mars article?

Certainly … instructions sent! Today’s responsibilities — done!

Is this a good day to play golf?

Ahem! You don’t know how to golf, sir.

Well, can you send an instructor over? Tiger Woods … if he’s available.

Certainly … done! … done! (click!) … done! (click!) … dooooone!

SUDDENLY THE LIGHTS GO OUT!

The scene changes and we see one huge amphitheater filled with bodies lying on beds with tubes attached to their heads; dialysis machines pumping nutrients into their veins; every single bed has emergency lights beeping. At the control room thousands of miles away, frantic robot technicians run around trying to fix the glitch in a complex interwoven system.

Rod Serling steps into the scene and delivers his commentary:

“Welcome to a dimension locked in space and time. Up ahead, past the sign post, is a world dominated by Artificial Intelligence — and peace has finally arrived on earth. Everyone is engaged in their private carefree world of pleasure and simple challenges. No matter their ambitions, they are actually harmless because they only live in their own imaginary world … a world preserved in The Twilight Zone.”

” * * * END OF DREAM ***

Would you want to live in a world free of trouble? I was half asleep when I thought about the dream. I wasn’t comfortable knowing that I could have everything I wanted. Surprisingly, the troubles of the world didn’t seem too bad anymore. What’s the point in life without any challenges? Without the bad, how can we appreciate the good? Decisions should have positive or negative consequences. They say the uncertainties of every day are the spice of life. Our trials build character… and they lead us to gratitude to God for blessings we never deserved.

But that’s just me. TGIF people!
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Quotes of the Week

“A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure.” — Henry Kissinger

“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” — Dalai Lama

“When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.” — Cathy Guisewite

“But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.” — Isaiah 40:31

“Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds.” — James 1:2