Uncle Roger's Notebooks of Daily Life

Monday, June 13, 2005

When I was in college, one of my hobbies was robbing banks.

I didn't really rob them, of course. It was, however, a fun way to pass the time waiting in line. It was, in fact, much like the computer programming I loved so much then. Given the environment, I had a goal to accomplish, challenges to overcome, and a plan of action to formulate.

Related to (or perhaps because of) this is my liking of burglar movies and such. I really enjoyed the TV series It Takes A Thief with Robert Wagner. I also really liked How to Steal a Million with Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole and Ocean's Eleven with George Clooney and Brad Pitt (Ocean's Twelve was not nearly as good.) I really like the complicated plan requiring perfect timing thus creating tons of suspence type of movie.

This is quite likely why I liked National Treasure as much as I did. While it's definitely not a great movie, it is a lot of fun and I definitely enjoyed it. The pace was a little slow and the story predictable (can you say Indy 3?) but I liked it nonetheless.

Journal Description

My life is, to me, ripe with frequent challenges, occasional successes, spontaneous laughter, adequate tears, and enough *life* to last me a lifetime. To you, however, it surely seems most pedestrian. And therefore, I recycle the name I used previously and call this my Notebooks of Daily Life. Daily, because it's everyday in nature, ordinary. These conglomeration of events that are my life are of interest to me because I live it, perhaps mildly so to those who are touched by it, and could only be of perverse, morbid curiosity to anyone else. Yet, I offer them here nonetheless. Make of them what you will, and perhaps you can learn from my mistakes.

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