Thursday – 01 March 2007
Three down, two to go.

The post-work evening was rather quiet: I had dinner with , stopped by to say “Hullo” to Kate and Perry and then came home. I watched three episodes of The West Wing. Season One. When it was good, back in the Aaron Sorkin days.

Random Access
I had a moment of… I guess it would be safe to call it “enlightenment,” yesterday: There’s earnestness in being taken seriously. I’m not sure that we often consider that, generally speaking.

I consider myself to be fairly intelligent… if not always wise. But, I do the best I can. Sometimes, I take a while to deliberate on something before making a conclusion – I have to connect the necessary dots, in the right order, in my own head. And in my own way. I recently asked a question and didn’t, at the time, consider how it might sound. Desperate? Glib? Frustrated? An attempt to be witty?

None of the above.

It was one of those “I couldn’t seriously ask it before… because I wasn’t able to ask it until then” moments. I didn’t have the mental framework in place to ask it beforehand. When I did, I asked. Plain and simple.

And it’s a little irritating because I think that it may have been taken as me being less-than-serious.

Stray Toasters
I should really finish getting ready for work. Maybe, if you’re good, I’ll throw a few ‘Toasters up later this morning.

Quote of the Day
This comes from the tourbook from the Rush’ 1991-1992 Roll the Bones tour:

We will pay the price, but we will not count the cost.
A line from John Barth’s The Tidewater Tales (he said I could use it) which echoed around inside me for a long time after I read that book. To me, it just means go for it. “There are no failures of talent, only failures of character.” I think that’s often true too. Sure there a lot of talented people who don’t achieve artistic or worldly success, but I think there’s usually a reason – a failure inside them. The important thing is: if you fail once, or if your luck is bad this time, the dream is still there. A dream is only over if you give it up – or if it comes true. That is called irony. We have to remember the oracle’s words, from Nike, the Greek goddess of victory and lumpy athletic shoes: Just do it. No excuses.

Namaste.