Life Is What Happens When You Are Making Plans

It's Sunday night, almost Monday morning, and I'm sitting here at the keyboard after a weekend of debugging life. It's not that my life has bugs in it as much as new things happen and adaptation is necessary - and some cool things have happened. After I did the prototype yesterday, I fiddled with a few other ideas - then Anthony and his martial arts students came back from training and stopped by to 'bus a lime' mango chow (green mangos, pepper sauce, garlic, etc...) and coconuts - and eventually, Anthony and I started reminiscing over beers while his students amused themselves drinking coconuts at the back of the house.

Anthony is one of the forward thinkers I know who isn't involved in technology directly. He's got an 'executive protection' startup going, and apparently he landed his first contract yesterday. I don't ask details on that stuff, he doesn't tell me. I tell him a bit about the stuff I was working on in the morning, without going into the details. We smirk at each other. Life is coming full circle; he and I used to sit around and watch our seniors have similar conversations 20 years ago. We're the seniors now. And the kids are doing what we were doing - drinking as many coconuts as they could, eating as much mango chow as they could, and generally having a good time after a good day's training.

Sometimes you need to take a break from the trenches so you can view the big picture better.

They left their swords and weapons here, wandered home, and I slept in this morning. Today, I took the day off - I finally felt like I had earned a break. So it was spent watching The Motorcycle Diaries, reading 'Benjamin Franklin' in snatches, and doing a lot of thinking. Planning. Considering.

The Motorcycle Diaries was a great movie. Great. I'd read the book a long time ago, and when I saw the DVD on Friday - it was a 'must have'. It's even a (*gasp*) licensed copy of the movie, which is a rarity. I could have waited and found a pirated copy at a much lower cost - probably about $10 TT instead of the $195 TT that I spent. Typical Copyright Organisation of Trinidad and Tobago - they'll fine people for playing the radio in a workplace without a 'license from them' but they wouldn't dare do some real work with piracy; shutting down rental places that rent pirated DVDs, or sell them. Amusing. And they expect people to take them seriously. Hilarious. All they do is fine honest people. Copyright is a fun topic here in the Caribbean. COTT=[t:Extortion] for business owners over public viewing but not publicly pirating. Hmm. Maybe I need to revisit COTT in a separate blog entry.

Ahh well. Tomorrow is another busy day, but I'll be back to my normal posting routine. Looks like I'll be building a server soon...

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