As everyone on the frelling planet knows, I am essentially unemployed and therefore I do housewifey things like watch Oprah. I love Oprah’s Book Club and I have been an avid watcher of Tuesdays with Dr Phil McGraw, the Texas born therapist whose main philosophy is “GET OVER IT AND QUITCHER WHININ’!” I like that sentiment. It works for me. So, anyway, his latest opus is Self Matters and it’s a no nonsense, logical guide to getting down to the nitty gritty of what your own mind is doing to you and how it all got that way. If you have nagging, longterm “issues” that are holding your life back, get this book. I’ve found it to be clarifying and sobering to name the issues and then do something about them.
In other news, well, there is no news, really. I have ideas, but no way to get them launched. I have a profession, but no active clientele. I have no money and no prospects for gainful employment. The usual.
I don’t have a plan for this Rant, as you can see, but I really felt the need to put fingers to keyboard and see what comes out. Hrm, so far, not a helluva lot! Heh!
I’ve just come from a Divine Light session with Kari and I feel energized – if not particularly focused. The session was not really groundbreaking or anything, but I do feel more centered for sure.
I’ve been doing a lot of surfing the last couple of weeks and I’m more determined than ever to bring the REAL web to more people. I’ve always thought that the web is chock full of artistic and literary expressions and that 95% of the AOLers and Yahoo searchers never even get a glimpse of the true value of the internet. I’ve met some interesting people via the net. Some people I even know quite a bit about, but couldn’t tell you a thing about what they look like or where they live. It just doesn’t matter online. I really love that people connect on such an even field online. Try MetaFilter (MeFi to those of us who go there a lot) for instance. When the 9.11 attacks occurred, there was so much discussion about national issues as well as some very specific things like whether or not everyone should know the National Anthem or the Pledge of Allegiance. It’s cool to be able to toss out a question and get tons of responses from people of all stripes. More people should hang out there and learn something about other people’s views. If more people would get into discourse with a wide variety of folks who have a wide variety of views maybe we would foster more REAL understanding and change in the world. I know understanding and acceptance is probably a pipe dream, but sometimes I truly understand what John Lennon and Martin L. King, Jr. were wishing for.
I wish I could get a grip on either GreyMatter or Moveable Type. So far the database stuff seems kinda complicated. I have these huge dreams of having this website all neatly organized with groovy databases, but I just don’t think I have the attention span to get it all set up. This is a big site now! After 3 years, one tends to accumulate quite a bit of stuff on a site, you know? So, I don’t know if I’ll ever get it all organized, but I will have one of the blogging systems in use on this site. I really like the notion of feedback from my readers and I know that people do NOT email, but they are more likely to drop a line if you have a mechanism for that. So, I hope to have something installed soon. Just don’t hold your breath, though, because I have no idea how soon is soon. [This was remedied with WordPress, which I’ve used since MT became crap a VERY long time ago! -A Mar 2015]
Oh, I just thought of something else that’s been bugging me. Oh, nevermind. This just isn’t a bona fide Rant this time, I’m afraid! Damned Divine Light! I just popped over to WWDN (Wil Wheaton Dot Net for the uninitiated) and once again, I’m just taken by him. He’s a really nice, funny guy and the more I read his observations the more I like him.
Ok, I’m done here. I have nothing else to say that makes a bit of sense, so I’ll let you go!