WATCHING:
Mystic River
Clint Eastwood, Director

Well, not the feel-good movie of the year, but a great story well told and with some great acting.

Sean Penn and Tim Robbins both grabbed Oscars for their (very different) portrayals of of individuals on the fringe and on the edge.

Between this movie and Good Will Hunting, I really don’t have a burning desire to move to Boston…

All movies

It’s frustrating, but reality.

There just isn’t enough time for the things worth doing. And – at the same time (pun intended) – I end up doing things that suck up time and don’t need doing (like writing this/other/all entries??? History will judge.)

A short list of what I haven’t had time for lately:

• Watching TV – This is a good thing, to me
• Read more fiction – I’ve been in a fiction slump over the last few years, and I miss it. But I like to read books in big chunks (100 or so pages at a sitting), and the large chunks ‘o time just are not there.
• Catching up on new trends – By this, I mean tech trends. I just can’t get up to speed on OO programming or XML/SOAP and so on. I’ve done brief bits of those (and a million others) over the last couple years, but I still want to immerse myself there. Not happening. Good example: I’ve been doing some data loads lately. I suck at dataloads. I chaff at doing them because I suck, but I enjoy doing them, because they are so necessary and the payoff is so great – press “enter” and suddenly files are downloaded, opened, parsed, passed into databases, files written. It’s a form of alchemy.
  
• Just enjoying the damn moment – Hard to do; easy to overlook; essential for sanity. But – hey – sanity’s overrated, right?