For the last several months I have not posted anything. There are a lot of good and bad reasons why. No point going into them, I'll just try to start posting more often.

I started to post reviews of movies we have seen in the last year, around thirty in total, in the Movies section. A few interesting insights: one, I am amazed how many films I saw during 2003, two, I am astonished how difficult it is to review so many films at one time (as opposed to reviewing as soon as I saw 'em) and three, I will no longer attend theater releases of films as it almost costs just as much to own the actual DVD. Dan Shea and I have agreed to pool "skipped movie" funds in order to buy the DVD versions we find worthy of watching.

President Bush is speaking on television at the moment. He realizes that the majority of jobs in the United States are provided by small businesses. We lost 1,000,000 jobs because of "the enemy" and that, to me, means more than a bunch of small businesses shuttered their doors. He also just stated that Death Tax is unfair and we should "be able to pass assests to whoever we want" -- whoops, I doubt that's what his teleprompter said. It yielded a nice laugh from the audience, though.

As of a day or two ago, the weather here in Marin and Sonoma counties has improved by leaps and bounds. Springtime (well, almost Summer-like) skies and temperature makes you want to head straight to the beach. Hopefully this weather will continue for at least a few weeks. It will mean more photos for the Gallery section of the site, including images from my new-found Pronto! Polaroid camera. More info on that later.