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dual systems Yesterday I was so focused on the verbal assaults in the film that I neglected to mention any of the music that the woman played, which I loved. On a few odd occasions strings can be akin to shrieking, but usually they are the instrument for me be it a violin or cello. Brass on the other hand is far too harsh for my taste and makes me cringe. Sadly most of my classical music knowledge is limited to Mozart, but after seeing the film I need to get some Ravel. I guess the point that I was trying to make yesterday is that people can do so much damage to other people with just a few select words and this is easily done when you know a person on an intimate level, but perhaps I am stating the obvious. At any rate I think the film did a great job of capturing how people relate or fail to relate to one another in life. Details are getting lost here again and I want it to stop. For instance on the night of my birthday I stripped a winter sky of all of its beauty by compressing it into two lines. I guess I was more concerned with the emotional mood than the physical at the time, but I wish that I could find a way to combine the two of them. Quite often I find a winter sky at night more moving than religion. People talk about things beyond their understanding or imagination and so few take the time to look up into the night and be truly amazed. Not every star may lead to an unborn king, but they speak volumes that last for centuries. Free from the blinding moon and artificial lights, I could see everything in the sky that is usually hidden from me. Orion and other old friends were there with the slightest hint of the Milky Way in the background. All of this makes me think that I should buy a new telescope and get back into astronomy. I often wonder what it would be like to float above the planet for just a few moments. To be able to see everything that we know with one look. For the first time in weeks, I got mildly frustrated at work. In fact I was so agitated that it took me close to an hour to wind down after work and that is not normal for me. Usually as soon as I walk out of the door, I forget everything that has to do with work. My private life and my professional life do not overlap, but this morning something about the attitude of the first shift crew bothered me and I just couldn't let it go. Quite often they have a tendency to say how busy there are during the day and how I have all of the time in the world to solve problems at night and I just mumble under my breath in response. Today however they sure seemed to be taking their time in the morning dealing with the problem that I gave them. I guess it was the blatant hypocrisy that bothered me the most. In the end it really doesn't matter, because I know from past experience that by the time I go into work tonight it will all be as though it had never happened. To relax this morning I played around with my new computer for the first time in days. Even though I've had it for close to a week, I really haven't done that much with it. Oh, I've used the new monitor on the old system for the past few days, but most of the files and programs that I use the most haven't been moved over to the new one yet. It won't be until I get the new system to the point where it feels like my old one that I'll power off the old one. So for now I get to be a real geek and have two systems going at the same time.
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