I'm cold and I'm goin' to bed!

Quiet at last...

My day actually is pretty quiet, at least in terms of people yapping around. It's nice though to come home and have a nice silent room to retreat to. Of course, I can hear the teen-agers out there howling away at some movie or other. But just the same, it's nice in here.

Do I like solitude as long as I'm surrounded by people?

Choices...

Do you suppose that life requires choices?

I mean - so many times in my life I've been looking for a job for instance. Sometimes even desperately looking. And I find one. And immediately thereafter another one pops in. And sometimes even another. It requires a choice. Why is that? Is it just the "luck of the draw"? Why is it that in normal life we don't have to make these choices.

I guess it's possible that it's only because I'm LOOKING for a job, or some other venture that causes a choice to be made. I wonder though.

A specific instance: some years ago I had been sniffing around a new job, trying to get that company to hire me. It had been like that for some time, over a year. Finally, I was given the go ahead, I had a job! So .. I went to give my old boss my notice. He was very unhappy to hear that I wanted to leave - it turned out that he had been working for some months to get me a promotion and had finally just gotten notification that it was available and he could give me a new job with much better pay.

So - decision time. "Do I stay or do I go?"

I guess life is decisions. Sometimes I wonder about all the coincidences.

It must take a lot of faith to remain an atheist. I don't think I could ever believe so firmly in nothing that I could stop believing in God.

Why does it seem to be an easier choice to believe in nothing? The whole WORLD shouts of being intelligently made.

Maybe we that believe have it easier than we thought, eh?

-max

... and anutha thing

By the way, we went to see "A Series of Unfortunate Events" yesterday.

Quite good, I thought. Heck, the CREDITS were better than some movies I've seen - make sure and stick around for them.

My wife wasn't as impressed as I was, but she's more into "dark" than I am. I mean, I like Tim Burton style dark humor, but sometimes the sunnier side of my soul needs nourishment. This had enough of both to make us happy.

Guess I'll have to go out and buy some of the books now, I'm curious about "the rest of the story".

-max

OH .. and by the way ..

Last year was crappy.

Isn't it nice to know it's all over with and we can start FRESH!

TWELVE MONTHS!

.. makes me a little giddy ..

Happy New Year!

Ok .. here's a chance to make a difference in your life. We are starting fresh on a whole new calendar. Now, of course I realize that it's not really any different than it was a couple of days ago, but for some reason seeing a new number at the end of the date line on your checkbook makes it feel different.

My wife and I were talking earlier today about doing some remodeling. It was an amazingly liberating feeling to say "I need to make sure to get the window sills done THIS YEAR." I suddenly realized what I'd said - "this year". Now, it's THIS YEAR! It's not like we have to burn up the miserly remains of a month or two or even five - we have TWELVE months in which get things done now!

WOW!

What an opportunity!

Think of all the wonderful happenings waiting THIS YEAR! The walks in the sun, the sunsets and sunrises, the melting of snow and ice in the spring, the warm afternoon sun. Car trips, summer vacations, evenings spent on the deck or patio - iced tea again! I love iced tea!

Why don't we have iced tea in the winter? Or chili in the summer, I guess. Iced tea and chili have their own seasons - and we have TWELVE whole months in which to have them.

Backyard barbeques - watching the kids run around the park squealing - dogs barking - crickets chirping...

Oh yah .. it's gonna be a GREAT TWELVE MONTHS!

Let's get started, eh?