I joined Netflix in order to get the free two week trial. Pretty cool. I've already watched that newfangled Indiana Jones movie, and thought that it has new life, thanks to that cutie pie, Shia LeBouf. No way would someone as old as Harrison Ford and Karen Allen be able to do all that action ballet in real life, but it was still hilarious and good.

Tonight is "The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button". I have a Brad Pitt thing ever since "Meet Joe Black". We'll see how this one holds up. 

Tomorrow, it's "The Queen".

It's hot, believe it or not. Heat makes me sick with just an undefined sickness that even Darth Doctor can't explain. Darth took some tests, but hasn't called, which is either a sign of complete falling through the cracks or means that nothing is seriously serious.  

Crunch time is almost over, and yesterday was the final day of crunch writing for monies. I feel as if I've been holed up here for all my life, and don't even want to go downtown to see "Capatalism, A Love Story".   

Downtown Sacramento is like the downtown from hell. All the streets are one way.  That's it. All the streets are one way.  And they're stubborn and mean. So, Moore is going to have to come out on Netflix.  Besides, H1N1 will kill me, and I know that Sacramentans carry extra doses of that disease. 

Well, my life is no life, beyond my Netflix and some toll house cookies. Everything hurts, as usual, and it's Tylenol time. I'm going to crash and burn with fatigue and incipient situational depression, I think.  

Here's a little elitist treatise on Sun Tzu's "Art of War", and how his ideas can be incorporated into pitiful lives.

"Therefore the skillful commander takes up a position in which he cannot be defeated and misses no opportunity to master his enemy" -Sun Tzu

While Sun Tzu, a fifth century military strategist, can be viewed as a ruthless and brilliant thinker who not only mastered the concepts of war, diplomacy and strategy, he codified those concepts in ways that are used by military strategists today. But how do we incorporate such intense and profound strategies into our daily lives?

In applying the quotation to daily life, it becomes clear that the enemy does not have to be another individual. The enemy can be ourselves. We can master such bad habits as procrastination, or even second guessing our abilities and capabilities. Sun Tzu's strategy is, at minimum, an excellent conceptual framework for understanding that we are in charge of ourselves and our habits.

When we "...miss no opportunity" to recognize that we are procrastinating, we can then take the steps needed to defeat our negative thought processes and complete the necessary task. Thus, we have successfully incorporated a warlike principle and applied it to an internal battle between what we are and what we desire to be: a person who gets the chores, tasks, and bill paying done on time.

When we apply Sun Tzu's principle to our insecurities, we catch ourselves falling into negative and self defeating thought processes and shut them down before they serve to discourage us from doing whatever it is that we strive to do.