The Posting...

has been very light recently. The last thing I posted was in July and it wasn't even a new post but something I wrote about three years ago.

I have been busy, not work busy though. Work has been slow but my downtime in Austin has been limited. People, Austin, soccer and Netflix have dominated all my time. I did not have a TV and now I do. The TV can only be used to watch DVDs and this has led me back into the warm embrace of Netflix.

My Netflix queue is up to about forty discs and it is growing. I have already decided to re watch The Wire, Six Feet Under and and start some series that people have recommended. I feverishly work to finish movies and get them into the mail and deal with the short interval before the next ones arrive. And then...gratification is achieved! All my old friends are back, Stringer Bell, Ricky Gervais, and now lots of homely Dutch people in these indie movies someone keeps recommending to me.

Now, I am not a hermit, as I previously stated there is other stuff occupying my time too. The confluence of all these events and happenings has cut down drastically on my reading and writing time. Life has been busy and complicated, which I guess is how life can be at times.

I was thinking recently about how life can be comfortable and interesting but very rarely both at the same time. Comfort quickly can lead to boredom and complacency. When life is interesting it can be both enjoyable and terrifying; it leads to action, it leads to decisions and consequential occurrences. Events get in the way of abstract philosophizing, as they should.

The key, I assume, is finding the balance between comfortable and interesting. Currently I am very rarely bored and only occasionally terrified, I guess that is a start.