Thanksgiving Rest and old ideas resurface

Not much happened over the Thanksgiving weekend. I did listen to an interesting recording of a historian talking about the Pilgrims. You know there's a lot of that story you don't get in fourth grade when you making paper turkeys and stuff. But that's beside the point I suppose.

I do feel more rested now. Four days and the most I did for work was check the email a few times (by which I mean no more than three times daily).

But I have come across a quote I used to have on a poster or something. It's something I should remind myself of more often and appreciate more. "Time is precious and constantly slipping away from us." I don't know who said it. Google says there was some pretty close bastardization of it in a Ricky Martin song a while ago. Go figure.

But I figure it was something I should reflect on a little more. Particularly when I accomplish little of what I want to accomplish in pursuit of the day to day tasks. "Carpe Diem" is the line, "sieze the day and live your lives extraordinary." Typically my day is more focused on "carpe piscis" - "sieze the fish, cause otherwise you're not going to eat and HECO's going to turn off the power so you can't cook the damn fish."