Two topics for the day, largely unrelated save by the day and my musings.

The first is productivity.  I had a pretty productive day, I folded clothes, did the dishes, even those that had to be done by hand, and took out the trash.  I took a friend to work.  Ooh, ahh, impressive!

Of course this is not impressive at all, I am a lazy slob and this is what I consider accomplishment these days of in between.  I find it amusing that I really have nothing new to say to people about how things are going.  Things are going well.  Nothing really new is happening, I am playing the games I enjoy and watching movies.  I eat, I check the mail, I go to bed.  I do the occassional chore.

How is this really different than what I was doing two months ago?  Yeah, I took an airplane to work and answered emails, attended meetings and did presentations.  Given my philisophical outlook on life, what I was doing then was no more important, and a good deal less so simply because I was unhappy doing it.   The only other differences are I was getting paid and it was considered normal and maybe more respectable.

So, topic one boils down to Joseph is still lazy, but is happier overall.  On to topic two.

I just finished watching Groundhog's Day.  Yeah, it is sappy and Bill Murray's character is his usual self-worshipping arse.  The subtle context is what I found interesting and timely.  If you had the time, what would you change in your life?  If you were stuck in a cycle, what would you try to do to break it?

In the movie he is stuck in the same repeating day for over six months.  I have up to a couple years.  In the first three to five months the character just continues on and on in the same general pattern.  Abandon sets in.  Despair sets in.  But finally there is direction and then resolve.  Finally, given that endlessly repeating day, he figures out what he wants and sets about to get it.  In the end, being a Hollywood production, he gets it.

This past month has been full of time passing, my mind in neutral.  Same habits, same pasttimes with as little involvement and advancement in the outside world as possible.  But that is okay, I have more time.

I am starting to feel a vague itch, every once in a while.  In time, given time, we'll see.

Nothing too deep, but I think I have a new affinity for groundhogs.