Weird Morning

Had a bit of restless sleep last night, ending with a very clear dream of  me visiting my Japanese homestay family and carrying on a conversation in Japanese.  Odd, as I never felt that close to them. Haven't had one of those dreams in quite a while.

Rented a bunch of videos to tide us over the holidays. The one we watched last night, the last of the Indiana Jones series was simply awful, from storyline to scripting.  Frankly, Harrision Ford had better stuff to use in the Kirin(?) beer commercials he did in Japan, now perhaps 11 or so years back. Christ,  Bill Murray even looked better doing those ersatz Suntory commercials in 'Lost in Translation"! It really sucks when Hollywood takes a good movie and runs the concept 50 meters into the ground with sequel after banal sequel (Alien, Terminator, et. al)

Have drug up  from the basement, the roaster we use annually to cook our turkey.  The turkey is the smallest one we get that still is too much for the 3 of us.

What am I thankful for?

Still having a roof over our heads and food to eat, despite me being unemployed for a long period of time.

For not having any major health issues or my son or wife having any either since we have by me not working, no health insurance.

Learning from being unemployed that there is more than being a blinkered, driven American version of a sarariman and connected better with my son, even if it does at times drive him up the wall

The privilege of interacting with those I do on the net and through e-mail: you don't know how much that keeps me away from the intellectual horror that passes for daytime TV programming :-)

For living the country and society that I live in, that while by no means perfect, I appreciate it when I think of where else I have lived.

Last, for my family, who also are not perfect are what I've got, or as The Auto Gal once said to me,  "You can pick your nose but you can't pick your family'.

Time to start the turkey.