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I went home today and had a taste of the fantastic beet soup. It was horrific! Well, I guess it would be great if you like beets but I really dislike beets so it wasn’t something I enjoyed eating. I should have realized that sooner.

This evening I experienced Avatar. “Experienced” seems to be a better word than “saw” or “watched.” I had no real interest in seeing it but Pookie told me it was amazing and so I guess my curiosity got piqued. Plus Lisa and Mom asked me to go and I can’t say no to those two crazies. With the 3D glasses pinched to my nose I nestled into the seat ready for… something. As the 3D previews played, a feeling of excitement rushed over me. This should be incredible! The technology is unbelievable and it’s clear these people can do whatever they want! They can let their imaginations run wild! I became excited by the sheer possibilities!

And then I watched what was essentially a remake of the battle of Endor.

Visually, the movie was amazing but story-wise I found it boring. I miss the good old days when the bad guys were Russian. The whole USB tail made me laugh. And I kept waiting for a drum circle.

Regardless of my feelings, I realize that this movie is ushering in a whole new cinematic experience. I just hope there’s enough creativity out there to do something good with it.

Anyone live in Duluth? If so, can you steal me the street sign in this article?

I met a man last night at the business card exchange who told me his title is Rōnin.
“Wha?”
“A Rōnin is a samurai with no lord or master, that’s me! I work for myself doing computer repair, I have no lord or master controlling me.”

I thought that was pretty terrific. I wonder if he would mind if I borrow that?

And it’s something I keep thinking about today. I keep forgetting that I don’t have anyone monitoring me. I forget that I can do as I please! I often sit here at my computer and just putz. The reason why I believe I do this is because for so long (almost 15 years!) I’ve worked for other people and I was paid to stay seated whether I had work to do or not. And now it’s hard for me to push away and do other things. I somehow equate sitting here as being productive. It’s odd.

I am a Rōnin!

Found this fascinating:

So a couple days ago I went to a business card exchange and I got cornered. I met this guy before and he offered me a discount on my cell phone. He said if I knew someone who worked at IBM he could offer me the IBM 25% Friends and Family discount. 25% is 25% and I am extremely “LinkedIn” so finding someone I know at IBM wasn’t hard.

I called him one afternoon and gave him the name of my IBM contact and voila! 25% discount. AWESOME! Quick, easy, painless. So anyway, I am at this business card exchange and he corners me and tells me I HAVE TO GIVE HIM SOME LEADS! I was really shocked because I had no clue he was even expecting me to provide him any in the first place. I guess there was a string attached to that IBM discount. Certainly if I knew of someone who needed his services I would have tipped him but honestly I am more interested in finding my own customers right now anyway.

At any rate, I shook it off and went about my business. That evening and over the next couple days I have found myself thinking about him cornering me and demanding leads. Although I am fine with my reaction, I just can’t really believe it happened and I feel silly accepting his kindness thinking it was kindness blah blah blah.

As I normally do when I am caught in this type of a situation I think of Howard Roark from the novel The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. Howard just didn’t care, he was totally single-minded and singularly focussed on his own being and his own goals. Howard didn’t entertain these types of thoughts and I wish I could totally exorcise them from my mind. BUT I CAN’T. It’s taken a few days and it seems I have driven it from my mind but it bothers me that it took me a couple days to get over it. Will I EVER become self-actualizing?

Talking about Ayn Rand, I AM STILL READING ATLAS SHRUGGED! I can’t seem to get through this novel! Truth be told, it just sits on my bedside table untouched. I never reach for it. I rarely read it. The weird thing is, I really want to read it. I really want to love it! I want to be one of those people who are so moved by it they get a tattoo on their back of Atlas… shrugging (of course my Atlas would also be frugging).

I just wish Ayn Rand could have opened herself up a little to some editing. Of course I am always wowed that she could write as she did… in a second language! She was Russian and didn’t learn English until her twenties! How is this possible? But there are other authors just like her…. Jerzy Kosinski and Vladimir Nabokov to name just a couple. It’s so humbling to think of these poor slobs learning English and becoming amazing writers and here I am, growing up with English as my first language and I am fighting off the desire to start each sentence with an I or And (and losing).

Did two presentations this morning and early afternoon. And then I did a business card exchange. I AM POOPED! POOPED!

Got stuff to say but I just can’t share. I wish I could. You’d love it all! Dang it! I miss being anonymous!

Why can’t stalkers be good looking with great jobs? Or at the very least mildly entertaining? I got a few weirdos after me and they all have foul breath and googly eyes.