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Planet Plan-It

Thanks for all the comments and advice yesterday. Navigating the swampland of human interaction can be difficult for me, because I never bothered to buy hip waders, put on insect repellent, or learn which plants will mess me right up. I'd a whole lot rather talk about beer. And even ratherer than that, drink it.

Movie news: It looks like next month is Harrison Ford Month at the Alamo. Blade Runner, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Fugitive, another Raiders movie... no Star Wars, but that's okay; I'm still sore over The Rise of Skywalker (even The Mandalorian didn't cure me of being sore about TRoS). And as for the new Raiders movie that's supposed to come out next year? Well, to quote Han Solo, I have a bad feeling about this.

Point being, there's plenty of movie opportunities coming up, and that's not counting any new releases. I'm planning to see Raya and the Last Dragon on Thursday, and and some point I'll have to do A Quiet Place II.

Again, I know that many movies don't require going to the theater, especially those classic Harrison Ford movies. I'm going anyway because I like the experience. I can eat at home, too; that doesn't mean I never want to go out to eat. At this theater, I can do both.

Hey look, a wild prompt appeared while I was typing this, so without further ado...

PROMPT May 26th

Make a list of your top five short term goals and a separate list of your top five long term goals. What steps will you take to achieve them?

Short-term Goals:

Let's see... did I mention five movies above? Raiders, Last Crusade, Fugitive, Blade Runner, and (one of these is not like the others) Raya. Yep. That's five.

Okay, that's probably cheating. Let's lump those all under movies.

1) Movies
2) Beer
3) A road trip
4) Fly to Belgium
5) Maybe fly back

1 and 2 are easy to achieve: walk to the drafthouse cinema, spend money. 3 is a little trickier because I need a block of time without commitments here, and that's tough to find in the next few weeks. 4 depends entirely on availability; last I heard, they were planning on letting vaccinated Americans in, but no time frame for that has been set. And if I can't go before the start of September, it'll be next year because -- and I cannot stress this enough -- I utterly despise the cold. Anyway, I'll have a chat with a travel agent who, presumably, knows more of the ins and outs of this sort of thing than the sometimes questionable information found on the internet.

5 is more aspirational. Just saying it'll probably be hard to leave. There's a lot of good beer there.

Long-term Goals:

At my age? HA!

1. Stay alive
2. ... that's about it, really.
3. Okay, travel to other places
4. Maybe write fiction again?
5. Take over the world and make it more fair and just, especially for me.

...yeah, obviously, these are mostly jokes so they don't get a real "what steps" treatment. The fiction writing thing could just as easily be a short-term goal, but I've been so focused on reading / viewing other peoples' fiction that I just haven't been doing my own lately. That's okay; I'm not all that worried about it. For now, doing daily blog entries and two newsletters a month is enough for me.

Really, though -- and you've probably already figured this out about me -- I'm not a very goal-oriented person. This is reflected in my random road trips; there's technically a destination, selected at random, but I give myself as much leeway as possible in getting there. On the road, as in life, for me it's more about the journey than the destination.

And sometimes I think that there is no destination; there is only the journey.