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Vocation/Avocation

No one should spend more than twenty hours a week doing any one thing.

This is my new creed.

Whatever makes one money, they should spend no more than twenty hours a week at it. This is a vocation.

One should spend the rest of their time doing things that they love. Working in the garden. Carving wooden toys. Making sauerkraut. Reading books. These are avocations.

If one can make money from one's avocations, well, then, that person is doing something right. But even if one can't, twenty hours a week is not too much of a burden.

I love the idea of having several of both, with constant overlapping and shifting places. Right now I have pizza delivery as my twenty-hour-a-week vocation; writing as my twenty-hour-a-week avocation that occasionally shifts into vocation; and I'm searching for some craft/food gig to pursue for pleasure that may one day provide a little bit of income.

One idea is to start my own gourmet hot-dog cart. But it would only be for two days a week. We'll see.

This is my alternative to the concept of career. It's much more fun.

Movies Lame

I pulled to a stop in front of the Piedmont Theater and glanced up at the marquee. The title of the current movie was "Pirate Rad."

How cool is that? I might actually go see that film.

Then I drove forward and saw that it was actually "Pirate Radio."

Movies sure do suck nowadays.

This Is the One

I'd like to leave the country
For a month of sundays
Burn the town where I was born

- This Is the One, Stone Roses

Living Up to the Name

Am I the only one who now finds Tiger Woods incredibly more interesting?

Obama Lame

Here's a question concerning Afghanistan that's not currently being asked:

Why do terrorists need a failed state to train in? Are their operations so enormous that they require an entire nation?

I don't get it.

Terrorists can train anywhere. In fact, they already do. Terrorists train in Palestine, Syria and Iran. Those may all be crappy states, but they haven't failed.

They used to train in Ireland and, as Oklahoma City can attest, they've even trained in the United States.

Once a person gets it into their mind that they want to be a terrorist, all they need is the internet and a warehouse, somewhere. Consequently, if one wants to prevent the spread of terrorism, they should try to keep that nasty idea from getting into people's minds.

There is absolutely no point in placing any troops in Afghanistan since preventing the state from failing will have no effect on the ability of terrorists to train and, therefore, play no role in our nation's safety.

The only failure here is Obama's.

Beer and Calories

I just discovered that my favorite beer has 303 calories per twelve ounce bottle.

WTF?

I'm quite sure that I've put four similar beers away in a night at Catos before; and those are sixteen ounces. It's not, I must say, out of the realm of possibility that I've consumed 1500 calories in booze during one session of drinking at my local pub.

That's 3/4 of my daily allotment!

Yeesh. This is what you start to think about when you're pushing 40, I guess.