It had to be aliens...
I forgot to mention something about that movie, The Departed, that I went to see the other day. At the beginning, and don't worry I'm not spoiling anything, Jach Nicholson's character buys Matt Daimon's character a comic book (in a flashback when he was a kid) off the stand, and it was Wolverine #8 or 10, I think. The sad part? Yeah, I own that comic.
I got to thinking today, in my thinking place, about things. Today's thought (yeah, one thought a day, don't want to break anything) was about leadership, and how I hate being stuck with it. I guess it was from a talk I had with Brian today about being the bigger man, in which we discussed how a year or so ago when my father and I were fighting, we hadn't talked for a few months. Just about everybody, including our former Youth Pastor, Curtis (ok, that there made it more than a year ago), who said that I needed to be the quote/unquote bigger man and do the right thing. Which I whole-heartedly disagreed with, because seriously, I don't care how old I am, he'll always be older. He gets to be the bigger man. It's like saying sorry when you're not sorry, just to stop a disagreement. It feels wrong and it is wrong. Anyway, this does relate to my aversion to leadership, because it's all about taking charge, even when you don't want to or know you're unqualified to. Everyone and their cousin knows that I start a million projects of one kind or another, or not even start, but plan, and almost never finish one. Like the Youth Band that Matt, Aaron and I tried to get going. Why did it fail? Yeah, yeah besides the fact that none of us were the least bit qualified. We failed because I was the only one who was going to take charge of the operation, and I'm really not good at that. Alot of my web comics, other comics, projects of varying nature, I try to get other people involved so I can shirk the responsibilty and share the load, as it were. Getting help in and of itself can be a challenge, but some people can be a huge help. Jenissa was up for inking and painting, which was invaluable at times and could have been a huge help. Rogan on the other hand may or may not do something even if you promised to pay him for it. Acutally you have a worse chance of getting it done if you tell him you'll pay for it... but that's something else alltogether. Matt... is Matt. Sarah is a great help from the sidelines, but doesn't have any skills other than cheerleading to speak of. So I always feel responsible in the end to headline the project, and take it really hard when it fails. Or stalls. I guess the upside is that finally when one of my projects pans out and I become a multi-billionaire, I'll get to be the face of the thing. Shucks, eh. Guess that's just my lot in life.
Just finished watching this week's episode of Jericho. If you're not watching it, the presmise is that the US get's bombed and the show centers around a small town, aptly named, Jericho. Because that's what the show's called. Anyway, my opinion of what happened. Aliens. It was totally aliens.
Ok, I'll finish this off now. I wikipedia'd aliens and then got on this huge tangent about interplanetary travel and other neat stuff, so I'm just going to keep reading it. Night!
I got to thinking today, in my thinking place, about things. Today's thought (yeah, one thought a day, don't want to break anything) was about leadership, and how I hate being stuck with it. I guess it was from a talk I had with Brian today about being the bigger man, in which we discussed how a year or so ago when my father and I were fighting, we hadn't talked for a few months. Just about everybody, including our former Youth Pastor, Curtis (ok, that there made it more than a year ago), who said that I needed to be the quote/unquote bigger man and do the right thing. Which I whole-heartedly disagreed with, because seriously, I don't care how old I am, he'll always be older. He gets to be the bigger man. It's like saying sorry when you're not sorry, just to stop a disagreement. It feels wrong and it is wrong. Anyway, this does relate to my aversion to leadership, because it's all about taking charge, even when you don't want to or know you're unqualified to. Everyone and their cousin knows that I start a million projects of one kind or another, or not even start, but plan, and almost never finish one. Like the Youth Band that Matt, Aaron and I tried to get going. Why did it fail? Yeah, yeah besides the fact that none of us were the least bit qualified. We failed because I was the only one who was going to take charge of the operation, and I'm really not good at that. Alot of my web comics, other comics, projects of varying nature, I try to get other people involved so I can shirk the responsibilty and share the load, as it were. Getting help in and of itself can be a challenge, but some people can be a huge help. Jenissa was up for inking and painting, which was invaluable at times and could have been a huge help. Rogan on the other hand may or may not do something even if you promised to pay him for it. Acutally you have a worse chance of getting it done if you tell him you'll pay for it... but that's something else alltogether. Matt... is Matt. Sarah is a great help from the sidelines, but doesn't have any skills other than cheerleading to speak of. So I always feel responsible in the end to headline the project, and take it really hard when it fails. Or stalls. I guess the upside is that finally when one of my projects pans out and I become a multi-billionaire, I'll get to be the face of the thing. Shucks, eh. Guess that's just my lot in life.
Just finished watching this week's episode of Jericho. If you're not watching it, the presmise is that the US get's bombed and the show centers around a small town, aptly named, Jericho. Because that's what the show's called. Anyway, my opinion of what happened. Aliens. It was totally aliens.
Ok, I'll finish this off now. I wikipedia'd aliens and then got on this huge tangent about interplanetary travel and other neat stuff, so I'm just going to keep reading it. Night!