WTF! Today I am 49 years old. One more year and I'll hit the big 50. I have to say, I never thought I would make it this far, but here I am. I've not done much for my birthday this year, other than go see a movie yesterday afternoon. (More about the movie shortly.) Haven't felt that I had much to celebrate.
I did do a few things to treat myself for this birthday. Yesterday I went to see the movie "Green Lantern". The movie wasn't too bad, a decent way to waste several hours on a hot and muggy day. But I have to say, the movie theater experience did not impress me. The theater itself wasn't too bad, stadium seating and the seats were nice. But, nine dollars to see frickin matinee. In the real shock was the concession stand, one medium soft drink and one small popcorn costs $11.25. Now I admit it's been a few years since I've been to the movies, three to be exact, but who the hell is willing to pay 20 bucks to see a movie. For the price I paid for my matinee ticket, I can watch as many movies as I want in the Netflix online catalog every month. Needless to say, it will probably be another three years at least before I see another movie in the theater.
For my other birthday treat, I cleaned out part of the living room and set up the electric piano I bought Kathy about 12 years ago. It's a nice piano, an 88–key Yamaha P–200. So now I'm trying to teach myself piano again. I also plan to get some new strings for my guitar so I can start playing it again too.
It's been more than 10 days since my last blog post, and I found it very difficult to write anything. I did write about 1000 words on possible scene during the last few days, but nothing serious. The issue hasn't been a lack of ideas for things to say it's just been really hard to force myself to sit down and write. Actually, been hard to force myself to sit down and do anything other than read or play mindless computer games.
One thing I did do last week, in the hopes that it would make writing a little easier or at least different, I bought the latest version of Dragon NaturallySpeaking. (This blog post has been composed using Dragon.) I've owned previous versions of this program and found it lacking. I don't know what it is about the way I speak, but the older versions founded difficult to understand me. This latest version has been great, it understands most everything I say, even with the background noise of the window air conditioner close by. Learning to dictate instead of type have been a little weird, because my speaking style and my writing style are very different. So, I have to work out in my head exactly what I want to say and then consciously think about saying it. I'm getting better and hope my productivity improves.
That's about it for tonight, I hope to post something else tomorrow.
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