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Saturday, February 26, 2011

I'd love to say this weekend is meant for relaxing, but it's not to be. Class work is piled too deep.

On the plus side, Roku internet video + Amazon free streaming + Red Dwarf series = WIN.

In other news..... I'm considering letting this blog slide into oblivion.

8 comments:

Arthur said...: Oh, RIGHT.

I need to add those to my netflix queue.

"Schopenhauer was right, wouldn't you say? Life without pain, has no meaning. Gentlemen, I wish to give your lives meaning..."

God I loved that show. :P; February 26, 2011 at 4:58 PM
Bryn, North Wales, UK said...: Good evening! Just a short note to say thank you for the time & effort you have put into this blog. I do hope you will continue to write - but you must decide that for yourself and for your own reasons.
Wishing you all the best for the future for you & yours,
Sincerely,
Bryn S.
(Isle of Anglesey, UK); February 26, 2011 at 5:26 PM
Rev. Paul said...: Bryn beat me to it.; February 26, 2011 at 8:54 PM
Secesh said...: I hope you wont end this blog, I check it and Carteach0 every day.; February 27, 2011 at 12:30 AM
Matt Wennerlund said...: I also read both every day, and did with your others as well. You do what you feel you need to do, and know that we will always wish you the best; February 27, 2011 at 5:04 PM
Everett said...: Yes! What Secesh said!!!; February 27, 2011 at 5:12 PM
Carteach said...: Thanks Guys. I'm not feeling 'unloved', or at least no more than normal. Just not much to say anymore.

My days are consumed with my school kids right now, and it's hard to see an end to that path. In about three months, maybe.; February 27, 2011 at 5:17 PM
Crucis said...: Ditto, Bryn and the Rev. Blogs should not be driven by quantity but by content. When I started I posted every day. Then I dropped posting on Sunday. Next I hornswoggled Dinah to take over the Saturday slot.

That leaves me Monday through Friday. Now that I'm "retired," I have more time. The drive is still there. If nothing else, it gives you an outlet to rant! :-); March 1, 2011 at 12:59 PM

Robert Heinlein

"Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect.

But there is no reward at all for doing what other people expect of you, and to do so is not merely difficult, but impossible. It is easier to deal with a footpad than it is with the leech who wants "just a few minutes of your time, please — this won't take long." Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few. If you allow yourself to fall into the vice of agreeing to such requests, they quickly snowball to the point where these parasites will use up 100 percent of your time — and squawk for more!
So learn to say No — and to be rude about it when necessary.
Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.

(This rule does not mean that you must not do a favor for a friend, or even a stranger. But let the choice be yours. Don't do it because it is "expected" of you.)"

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.