Current Status... Well, I mastered the Bluetooth earpiece for my cell phone, then promptly misplaced it. What else? I've become a Reluctant Webmaster. I'm learning on the fly, making lots of mistakes. I hope there's light at the end of the tunnel.

Lately I'm thinking... It's really hard to slow down and be thorough-going! When I am still, I get nervous. If I can't think of something I need to do, I get depressed. Not good. I'm back to meditating in the mornings, to teach myself that it's all right to be still.

This is really interesting... What could be interesting? I have a birthday coming, so what's to celebrate?

Currently watching... I'd had the David Lynch movie, Inland Empire, on my Netflix list for months, maybe years. It finally arrived...and sucked. I should have known from the first moments of soundtrack that I wasn't going to be able to endure this movie. Terrible low screeches and drones for hours on end; purposeful disturbance but way over the top. Then, as both director and cinematographer, Lynch bludgeons you with his theme of play within a movie within a movie -- you know, reality vs. unreality, and how do you tell the difference? But subtle he is not, he really overdoes it. So what happens is, he wastes several really fine actors by insisting on shooting their faces from various warping angles, and prevents us from ever getting into the characters. And without character, you have no movie, sir. You have a reel of surreal, meaningless photography. Blech. Watch out for this one and skip it; a classic it is NOT!

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