It's Been a Week?

I can't believe it's been a week since my last blog.

I'm much better now -- except I'm tired a lot lately. I went to bed at 10pm last night and slept until 6am and still woke up tired. I had like zero energy last night. I came home, ate dinner, played Frizbee ® (except it wasn't a real Frizbee ® but a cheap imitation knock-off we got for free from a bank and it broke, so I need to go buy a real Frizbee ® brand Frizbee soon), visited my mom for a few minutes, and watched t.v. like a slug.

I held Bekah while watching t.v. because I wanted to keep her "contained" as Barb and Brittany were out doing stuff and the boys were upstairs playing computer games and stuff. We watched Japanese anime on the Anime Network On-Demand channel -- girl anime. Bekah enjoyed up until I tried to turn on the "Large Robot" Anime. Then, I had to go back to "Girl Anime" -- which was fine by me.

We watched something called "Madlax" which is kind of hard to say if you think about it. Madlax, Madlax, Madlax. Sounds like some kind of medication you'd take if you were angry or constipated.

Then, we watched Noir -- which is even harder to say -- "No-oir." Actually, I don't really know how to pronounce Noir. I just wing it. "I'm watching something French, I think" I might say, but I'm actually watching Japanese anime dubbed in English.

English translations of Japanese anime tend to be a bit "off" from what I understand, but I don't know really because I'm not fluent in Japanese. How could I really tell? My son, Ben, however, assures me this off-translation stuff is in fact the case. I don't know how he knows though. I'm guessing he's getting his opinions by reading other's opinions and taking them as his own opinions.

Ever notice how opinions are contagious? Let's say, for example, you have no real opinion on whether or not John-Claude Van Dam is a good martial artist or not. You don't even know how to spell Martial Arts let alone know much about them. Then, I with my black belt in Chang Chuan Kung Fu, tell you that he's full of baloney as far as martial arts go. Will you take my opinion as your own now or keep your opinion?

Probably, if you trust and respect me and my opinions, you'll take my opinion. Then, you'll find yourself saying, "While I like John-Claude Van Dam as an actor, I think he's not really a true martial artist." like that's something you came up with on your own but in actuality, you'll be remembering our conversation on this topic and your opinion will be a proxy opinion of the one I gave you.

And, I may have gotten my opinion on John-Claude that same way.

We could have, in reality, one person somewhere with one opinion that told someone about it and everyone else now has that opinion. Well, it's likely we have two opinions: Those who think John-Claude is a terrific martial artist and those who don't. Two people exist somewhere with diametrically opposed opinions and they're the only ones who've actually considered all the facts, etc. The rest of us are just spewing what we've heard from others who heard from them, etc.

For the record, I think John-Claude is an acrobat. Jet Li is a real martial artist. Now you know what to think....

I had a TON of things to write here but I've forgotten them all. I need to carry a notepad with me to write down all my ideas.

Let me just say, my wife's parents are coming to visit us Saturday night for like a week. My wife is a wreck. She can never have her parents visit us without going bonkers first. Oh well.

Later all.
---Dan---