News, Views and Monday Morning Blues - along with Mid-Years resolutions.

News: There are no mother in-laws in town. It was cause for sadness and celebration. Therefore I had two hangovers in two days.

Views: Mike Tyson is a nut. Thank goodness we didn't rush home to pay for this circus that is Mike Tyson.

And in Monday Morning Blues: I had a great attitude about work today. Then I realized I had to go to work.

And on to my journal entry...

Here's a joke:

Eye Exam

A guy goes to his eye doctor for an examination. They start talking as the doctor is examing his eyes. In the middle of their conversation, the doctor casually says, "You need to stop masturbating."
The guy replies, "Why Doc? Am I going blind?"

The doctor says, "No, but you're upsetting the other patients in the waiting room."

Did you hear - men are complaining about blindness due to Viagra use. Let me add that there are common myths associated with masturbation.

If you masturbate you will go blind or bald or get acne or hair on your hands -- or lots of other anomalies.

Maybe there is some truth to at least one of these myths. Mabye due to the use of Viagra, these 'blind men' are compelled to masturbate more. Maybe doctors should check for baldness, acne or hairy hands before actually saying Viagra causes blindness...

Just a thought.

Man, I'm having a hard time seeing the computer monitor lately. ;)

Okay. Back to serious stuff.

We are pratically right smack in the middle of the year. As July approaches I have to reasses my resolutions of the New Year. What were they?

I use to write in a journal. Hand write that is. I stopped around October of 2004 as it was easier to type than physically write with a pen. One of my resolutions was to maintain a journal. I guess in a way I have as I update my Hungry Screenwriter blog and my Rotten Tomatoes vine on a nearly daily basis. So this resolution is staying the course.

Read a book a month. Hmmm... It started all so well. Going from 2004 to 2005 I was reading a book a month. In February I bought a book called, "Honeymoon" by James Patterson, and it was so boring I put it down after a couple of chapters and never went back.


I have read most of Stephen Kings "On Writing" and all of "Snoopy's Guide to the Writing Life" and have referenced several How to Draw Comics type books... but haven't read a novel in quite a while. I have to get back on track. I can do two a month if I don't watch TV. And since its all repeats, I'll be back on track in no time.

Every year I have a resolute to work out. To get physically fit. Have I? Not really, no.

These three things are quite important to me. It all has to do with my brain.

Writing in my journal almost everyday means that I'm writing. It may not be a script or story, but I'm writing which is what I love to do more than anything when I'm alone. Except for, you know, the taboo act of self pleasure but I don't want to go blind or go bald.

Reading stimulates my brain.

And getting physical helps everything fit in my brain.

So more focus will be done on the above three resolutions as I make my Mid Year Resolutions.

Mid Year Resolutions
1. Read two books a month
2. Maintain my journal
3. Get physically fit
New ones
4. Learn photography
5. Finish two feature screenplays
6. Never wake up with a hangover

To bookend this entry I will include a phone pic in a private moment in the life of Jake...

We were at YARDHOUSE celebrating my birthday when he had to go to the bathroom.

If a picture says a thousand words, then this one really makes that statement true.


Ah, moments to chereish... :)

And that's that!