Irredeemable

Here's a little something I made yesterday. It's an expression I've long used both personally and professionally. You can apply it to anything you want - our government, our economy, man's fallen nature - anything.

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You're lucky to get even this

BO CATLETT: (looking at Chili) What I been wondering is where's he been.

RONNIE: Yeah, where've you been? We haven't heard from you lately.

Harry comes around to stand at one side of the desk, his back to the window . . .

HARRY: I've been off scouting locations. Interviewing actors in New York.

Chili's gaze moves from Ronnie the fool to Bo Catlett the dude, the man composed, elbows on the chair arms, his hands steepled in front of him.

HARRY: The main thing I want to tell you, the start date for Freaks is being pushed back a little, a few months.

Sorry for the slow down here lately. Nothing's wrong, it's just that we've been busy. Les is into the second half of her next-to-last semester in RN school, so she's completely heads down with studying, lectures, tests, clinicals and then working on the weekends. She's put in her paperwork to graduate in December (yay!) I've been busy at work and am also studying in prep for an eight-day, three-test Microsoft certification boot camp in May. We have also been shepherding along our twins through homework every night, both of whom are struggling with school this year (Jon a bit, in a "Jon could do better if he just applied himself" way, Gloria on more of a fully rebellious "I don't have to do this shit and you can't make me" path, which is a challenge). And then there are all of the usual day-in, day-out, week-in, week-out things that have to happen to run a house with six humans in it, with everyone studying for something.

If you're on my blog roll I've been reading all your blogs and commenting here and there, and relying on Ping.fm to update Twitter and Facebook and LinkedIn (and MySpace - does anyone even go there any more? I don't) to show I'm still alive. But mostly it's been heads down, working hard. I hope to have some time to breathe and write more after the boot camp in May. In the mean time, the irregular posts here may be mostly re-posts of things I like from other places. But I haven't given up on blogging, I promise (or "I threaten," depending on your outlook about this blog! :o)

Now, back to studying (I am supposed to be through this 750+ page book with all labs done by May 13 - one month away!)

Do you follow the Master, or the Masters?

My daughter Meghann, her husband and our grandchildren moved to Augusta, Georgia, last year. As they adjust to the many new experiences any move to a new state and city entail, they are now experiencing their first year in Augusta during the Masters frenzy golf tournament. I'll just let her tweet speak for itself:

"thinking about the weird priorities here. Wednesday night church was canceled, because of the Master's. On Easter week. Hmm."

Hmmm, indeed.