The thing that makes the book (and the show, short-lived though it was) worthwhile and not just another preachy self-help book, is that he really does genuinely care about this stuff. He really wants everyone to live life to the fullest, whatever that means for them -- on the show, very few of the goals were physical stunts like "I want to overcome my fear of heights by jumping out of a plane." (Though some of them were.) Most of them were things like "I want to fulfill my dream of owning a restaurant," or playing in a band, things like that. I wasn't surprised when it got cancelled, but I was disappointed.
(My one quibble with him is that the oft-repeated story of how he "almost died in a shipwreck" is a bit misleading. He wasn't "in a shipwreck" in the sense that the ship he was sailing on crashed and sank, he was "in a shipwreck" in the sense that he was scuba diving in and around a wrecked ship at the bottom of the ocean. The ship was already wrecked when he got there, and he had a bad scuba diving accident while exploring it. Still a very real brush with death, but not the one you picture when you hear the phrase "almost died in a shipwreck.")
Almost died while diving? Not sure how to say it better, but yeah, point taken.
Kitty passports! Must head home and Photoshop Legion into a dip passport.
Yeah, the Russians do manage to find whole new untapped worlds of potential bureaucracy. Hence, cat passports. (Catports?)
They need to have cat student visas. Or guest-worker visas. ("Occupation: mouser" etc.)
Dave's band was supposed to have two gigs this weekend, and one just got postponed! Yay! I am so relieved. I have been feeling so crappy lately, I couldn't figure out how I was going to have the energy to clean this place up today and tomorrow, have people over my apartment tomorrow night, and then be social two nights in a row.
Mom just called. She is trying to convince the docs to let her out of the hospital tomorrow so she can see CJ's show. If not, she wants me to find someone with a video camera. Sigh - not sure if I know anyone with a camera to loan.
But I'm profoundly not confident about a number of other things, particularly singing in public, and teh sexy.
If it helps, a friend was looking at my Flickr pictures and asked who the pretty blonde was.
Nora, I have finally written you back. My apologies for not getting back to you yesterday -- I was computer avoidy last night. However, now that I'm in the office, I'm work avoidy -- everyone should write me email!
Very sorry, Suzi, that I can't offer you a video camera (because I really want to see what he does, too).
Sparky, I haven't seen anything from you... don't know if it got lost in the ether or it's just taking its sweet time... a reply to the one I sent you last night, right?
Yup, Nora. A reply to last night's. In summary: YOU GO GIRL! You deserve it because you're fabulous!
Congratulations, Hil! You're distinguished!
vw, one of my sisters once came to visit me with two sets of house keys. The day she left, we found one set in the vegetable bin, and one in my dooryard. I consider this a miracle, since TWICE during that visit she left them on top of the car and drove off. Fortunately, we only had to dodge traffic once to recover them in those instances.
eta: The word of the day in my email, because I'm sure I can find a use for this one today:
floccinaucinihilipilification (FLOK-si-NO-si-NY-HIL-i-PIL-i-fi-KAY-shuhn) noun. Estimating something as worthless.
