More rushed stuff

I've been in an uber rush lately.  I had a Reston trip last week and I was sick on Friday and then had a pretty full weekend.  Today has been crazy as heck.  But I think I've gotten on top of the pile now.

Let's see... if there were a word of the day...

I'm not sure what it would be.  But it would mean "dreaming of green meadows near a small town on a warming Spring day and playing in a rock bottom, clear water creek with not a care in the world and the promise of a warm baked dessert when you got home."

At 35, life seems so incredibly complicated.  I'm not really sure where's its going, but it doesn't look good.  But jumping off doesn't appear to be an option either.

Anyways... I watched The Bourne Identity on Saturday and it was really very cool.  Might have been the highlight of my weekend.  I got a free subscription to Net Flix this Christmas and I must say it's pretty cool.  I'll probaby get The Bourne Supremacy next.  I still have Shoa Lin Soccer and something else I can't remember at home.

My oldest boy went home sick today.  This means he'll probably end up at home tomorrow too and I'll have to stay home to watch him.  Amy has classes all day on Tuesday so she can't stay home with them.  No biggie really, I like having the excuse to stay home.  I keep hoping some lottery ticket will sweep me off my feet and take me away to a mountain somewhere--with high-speed internet of course.

I hope life is treating y'all well.  If you see some stars tonight... think of me staring at them too...

Just to get the last depressing blog off my screen

Sheesh... I gotta follow up on the crapola posts faster.



Nothing grandiose here.  I'll be out of town all week so that I can meet with the new team I've been re-organized in to.  Three fun filled days discussing departmental strategy, performance reports and budgets... wee.

2005: A Year of Tragedy

I don't know if it is just because I'm an "adult" now, but it seems 2005 was pretty rocky.  When I think back over all the world events the hit us and try to ponder the lives lost.



If you stretch back to Christmas 2004 you have the Idonesia tsunami... hundreds of thousands killed.  Then as you go in to 2005,  Katrina wipes out New Orleans.  The war in Iraq claims over 40,000 civilian casualties. Terrorists bomb London.   Earth quakes in Pakastan wipe out entire villages.  Israel evacuates the Gaza Strip amid rampant violence and conflict.  And in Africa millions die silently, nearly unacknowledged by the west, of AIDS.



With so much it is hard to fathom what a person can do.  How do you answer a million voices all asking "why?"  The scope is so overwhelming as to be paralyzing.  Even an entire nations resource could not prevent these events from happening.  But we can not be silent or passive.  We must all seek to be aware of the world.  The day we ignore these events while the world suffers will be the first day of an inevidable revolution.  But worse, it will be a sad day for human nature.



I don't know what I can do.  I give a little when I can to Red Cross.  I try to be helpful to those in my reach.  Maybe if we can just all help a little.  But whatever we can do, we can never ignore these events.  Never say, "well it's not me" or "they are so far away".  People are people every where.  Even angry people love someone.   Even when it seems the help is too little or underappreciated, keep trying.

Stories

I haven't so much as cracked open a game book in at least 2 months.  While the raging WoW addiction continues with some satisfaction, my mind is circling around different plots and stories.  Some fantasy and some not.  I've been pondering how details our lives are.  The old saying of "Everybody has a storie" while cliche, is still very true.  I find myself writing the interesting bits of my own life in Hollywood style.  All the sex, drama, tragedy and triumph would make a great book/movie if marketed appropriately.  Change the backdrop to LA or something, make it all sound larger than life.  Then I ponder what stories everyone else has.



We've all lost a love, overcome some challenge, lived with pain and hopefully found some joy.  It would make a good story with just a few tweeks, right?  Hehe.



Blame by Curtis Owings

    A compelling tale of adultry, betrayal and love set in the sleeply suburbs of the Midwest.  The dirty secrets of a conservative couple are exposed.  As tensions rise sex and desire rip their world apart and plunge them headlong in to a thrilling drama with a shocking conclusion.



Sounds good, eh?  I'd have to change real events around, add more violence and some firearms (of which my life is pretty much devoid of) and I think it would be a good book.



I've also been pondering a new fantasy game setting.  Nothing shocking, but even a simple tale of Kings and Queens is imagination capturing.  After seeing the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe I've been thinking of a new game.



Anyways, thoughts swirl in my mind again.  Lately, I've been so busy I've not had time to let them spin.  But maybe I'll get the time here soon.



What would your life novel be?

Hello 2006

Holidays are over... It was a pretty good year.  Always amazing how fast time goes by and how each year seems faster and faster.  As I watch my 6 year old son who can't physically sit still for 5 minutes I try to remember what eternal day off feels like.

Work is about the same.  It was hard to go back.  But that is just more motivation to get out and do something else.  I think every one wishes to get out and do their own business... maybe I will.  I don't have any faith in a corporation to do a good job at it.

I hope all is well with the friends and family that perhaps read this.  I'm a good gift buyer, but a poor gift sender... sorry for the late stuff!

Coolest present I got so far was a little RC helicopter.  Which I've managed to crash already, but that is part of the fun (putting it back together).  I'm going to have to budget that... Second coolest is the computer we ordered, but it hasn't arrived.  Third was this cool poker set I bought myself.  I also got a free subscription to Netflix, that was cool.

One thing I like to remember in times of plenty (and these are plentiful times) is a solemn hope that pain and hate will end, there will be food for every one and wisdom to live life well spreads through out the world.  We all live and die, that will never change, but maybe we can enjoy it more--all of us. 

Hello 2006

Holidays are over... It was a pretty good year.  Always amazing how fast time goes by and how each year seems faster and faster.  As I watch my 6 year old son who can't physically sit still for 5 minutes I try to remember what eternal day off feels like.

Work is about the same.  It was hard to go back.  But that is just more motivation to get out and do something else.  I think every one wishes to get out and do their own business... maybe I will.  I don't have any faith in a corporation to do a good job at it.

I hope all is well with the friends and family that perhaps read this.  I'm a good gift buyer, but a poor gift sender... sorry for the late stuff!

Coolest present I got so far was a little RC helicopter.  Which I've managed to crash already, but that is part of the fun (putting it back together).  I'm going to have to budget that... Second coolest is the computer we ordered, but it hasn't arrived.  Third was this cool poker set I bought myself.  I also got a free subscription to Netflix, that was cool.

One thing I like to remember in times of plenty (and these are plentiful times) is a solemn hope that pain and hate will end, there will be food for every one and wisdom to live life well spreads through out the world.  We all live and die, that will never change, but maybe we can enjoy it more--all of us.