NATIONAL TREASURE: Book of Secrets

I haven't seen it (yet) but I want to, based on the success of the last film. It reminded me of the Indiana Jones films.

The best part of waking up

I got up before 5 am this morning without the alarm clock and got the Folgers going. I love the quiet of the house in the morning, just me, the computers, the furnace, kids, wife and dog sleeping - and I get anything or nothing done. It's ME time, as they say. Which is probably what you're doing if you're reading this.

With my novel being shipped around, I don't have much to offer you except these observations, like a break from the craziness. We are like Tom Hanks in CASTAWAY. (It's a great movie, but a major bummer, as we used to say in the 80's.)

So right now I'm just warming up and wondering what people are doing on the computer where it's now 6 am on a Thursday in December.

I'm not talking about the Easy Button...

The pages of December's calendar continues to burn up. Sounds rather hackneyed, but it may be too much cookies and hot cider. (The use of the word 'hackneyed' may be hackneyed...but i digress).

I am getting a new hard drive soon and then will piece things back. I will start a nw archiving system which should allay some of the pain of going without my computer for two weeks. Funny thing - I'm almost getting a peace about it. I couldn't do anything about it other than what I did.

We get used to a 'press-a-button' kind of living and then expect to have it in everything we do: waiting in Christmas lines, looking for new work, new projects, success in love. Computers have buttons, life doesn't.