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I bet you can't name three good Viking movies.

So, I had a feeling the Pistons would lose game 4. I'm not nervous for them. Pouring you're heart and soul into a single goal for so long is very, very difficult. There are bound to be lapses, it's human nature. Also, closing out a series at home is good.

Mother's Day was great. I got to see my mom and spend some time with the family.

I was weeding the garden with my wife the other day and I couldn't help but notice the mulch. It's wood chips. I got an idea for a story setting. A place so blasted and torn apart that the land is a fire-hardened jumble of earth and rock, like mulch. I'm still working on it.

The guy who coached football with me said he saw a dead leopard by the side of the road a few miles from where I live. I questioned the authenticity of the statement until I remembered how many carnies and circus folk live in a nearby town. Then I was like, "Oh." Another day in the greater South Shore area.

I was leafing throught The Silmarillion last night, that's a good sign as far as writing goes. I think I know where I want to go generally with my next manuscript, but I'm still working on plot twists and such. That's one of the hardest things for me to gauge, plot twists, because they're not twists to me. I'm not surprised cause I wrote it. So when I'm reading my manuscript I'm like, "yeah, saw that one coming," then I say, "yeah, cause you wrote it idiot." Anyway, I'm not sure if I killed off to many people in the first one. Nah.

I really want to strive to make the second part better than the first. Like New Hope and Empire, both great, but I've got to give the slight edge to Empire. I guess that's what I'm shooting for. I should have something started by the end of this month.

"Asteriods do not concern me admiral."
Kind of how I feel about life in general. The mundane, the everday, I find somewhat tedious. Now, there is a beauty in the everyday, there is, I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about reciting lists, ugh, like, "These are the things we need to do...". Those are the asteriods and I'm Darth Vader. I can't be concerned with that stuff, I just want the Millenium Falcon found! That is my deficiency. I need to be more concerned about how many cans of beans are in the pantry even though I don't really like them, or whether I vacuumed under the dinner table even though no one has sat at it or stepped foot near it since the last time. Why you ask? Because that's part of life. Having fun is great, and focusing on a goal is grand, but the everyday-bean-counting-cuttin'-out-coupons side of life has to have its due.

You've got to CC before you can pull, DPS and loot.