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Tuesday June 5, 2001
"Take it easy: if you go too fast, you'll catch up with misfortune; if you go too slow, misfortune will catch up with you." Unattributed in 20,000 Quips and Quotes edited by Evan Esar
paté from the chef
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decisions I feel adrift in my life and yet I feel like I'm making a number of important decisions. For myself. For others. I wish I could retire. I feel I'm ready and able to fill my days with things that give me pleasure but don't necessarily make money. I've done what someone wanted done who would pay me good money for over thirty years. Often I did the wrong thing for making money to please the person doling out the salaries. Such is life. On the other hand, I feel my work isn't finished and, some days, I am really fascinated by it. I think the answer is to find some balance by taking some vacation! I felt busy all day at work. And yet it all seemed kind of secretarial. Updating WEB sites, writing e-mail, reading and filing e-mail. There has to be some way to offload some things to my admin and do more real, creative work. Doesn't there? I lunch at the parents. Mom says she doesn't know how to use the new VCR in the living room. I eject the tape, pop in one on Scotland, hit play. It plays. On her computer, she has tried to find a WEB site advertised in a magazine. She left out one 't' and got not found. I try to show her how to correct it. FFP and I decided to go to Zoot. They are getting interested in developing their WEB site. We are trying to show them how it could look with pictures and features. (www.zootdining.com). I've taken digital pictures and scanned some professional ones of the chef. They haven't gotten the menu and wine list to us in an electronic form and I've threatened to type them in but haven't done it. So we dine at Zoot once again, giving ourselves the duty to think about their WEB page. And snap photos of the dishes. Including the (that's not on my new diet!) paté de foie gras the chef gives us. Not bad duty. I just need to set myself the duty of some exercise as well! At home, my tiredness (and my share of that nice Ridge Petite Sirah) sends me dozing in my chair and to an early bed. I need to do better, get more done. Yawn!
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