Brief Soapboxing
Bankrupt airlines should not be given bankrupty protection. They should be allowed to die. I do not want to pay (through my taxes to the government which provides this bankrupty protection) for a bankrupt airline. I’d rather two-thirds of the existing airlines die, if they can’t figure out a way to stay profitable.
Friday, January 13, 2006
Just got back from a visit with my parents, where I partook of an excellent Chinese-style meal, helped my Mom with her Motorola Razr phone, and filmed myself in their basement. Filmed myself in their basement? Yeah. It’s for an advertisement that Otherspace is making for a local anime club; part of it involves a shot of an otaku sitting in a basement somewhere, looking bored. So I volunteered to be that otaku. Turned out pretty […]
Bad And Good
It almost got me! Almost. Resistance came this close to derailing me today. It started yesterday, as I realized that I need to completely rewrite chapter one of my young adult novel, Giant Armors, within the next day or two if I want to get it to my writer’s group in time for them to review it by our next meeting. So I knew I’d have to get some writing done at lunch today. So […]
The Plateau
Saalon writes about his pretty bad year. Here’s the comment I left on his blog: I’m reminded of a concept from the book “Mastery:” The learning process is not a steady ride upwards. It is a series of plateaus punctuated by upward movement. Most of one’s time is spent on the plateau. So, the book contends, learn to appreciate the plateau. Understand that you are just building up to visible growth. When a house […]
Sunday, January 8, 2006
Would’ve written something scintillating on here, except our server was down…again…all day. I am powerfully resisting the urge to explain things here, as that would probably be bad for me. Meanwhile, my illness has relapsed (with a sore throat this time) and while my day has been relatively enjoyable, I’ve spent all of it waiting for this server to come back online so I could do StUFF with it. […]
My Work
Amazing what a few days of illness can do for a person. Seriously. Sure, I spent much of that time watching anime and Good Eats (finished season seven!), but I also spent a fair amount of it doing nothing. Just thinking. And that’s a very good thing. I also re-read more of The War of Art, and contemplated turning pro. And then began to turn pro, in my writing and for Otherspace. In fact, yesterday, while I was still feeling […]
Resistance
Started re-reading Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art last night. What an amazing book. It’s been another good swift kick in the seat of my pants. I’ve let Resistance whittle down my work on my novel. I’ve accepted rationalizations and let time slip by. No more. Today, now, I choose to work on that which furthers my purpose in life. In other news, the VR story will end this Friday. Really. I plan to post […]
Musings on Media Deprivation
And I’m back online. Boy, that was an experience. By the end, I craved more media. I wanted easy stimulation. And that worries me. Stimulation is easy, sure, and it’s not necessarily bad, but it’s not necessarily good, either. I wonder if I wouldn’t be better off with fewer distractions. Or maybe I just shouldn’t rip myself away from all media for such a long period of time. Oddly, I most […]
How The Media Blackout Is Going
The bloom is off the rose. As of today, I’m officially tired of my vacation from all media. But that’s good, actually. That’s an opportunity for me to examine my reaction and figure out what that means. Why am I tired? Why do I want more input? Here’s what I figure so far: I like to learn and I like to teach. Those are pretty intrinsic to my nature; I’ve been doing both, happily, for many years […]
Media Detox
Gee. Everyone’s staying away from their blogs this week, it seems, except me. And I’m the one avoiding media, so I should have the least to talk about. Instead, I feel like blogging. Hmmm. That’s causing a few neurons to fire. The media avoidance has made me realize just how media-saturated I am. Well, and it’s not just media; it’s raw input. I have a lot of stuff pouring […]