http://www.johnhattaway.com Anyone who is unreliable is also a liar; anyone who is a liar is also unreliable. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:01:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I think I often have great plans to do big things. I think some of those big things include my blog and making it more popular and more accessible. Point, I started at the earliest posts editing them so that the links all went somewhere, images were either updated or ... http://www.johnhattaway.com/2009/06/the-long-something/ As I've state before, I have this mental list of people that when I hear a news story about them I have to ask myself, "What, he (or she) is not dead?" I can give a quick list of a few people - though I won't - that fall into ... http://www.johnhattaway.com/2009/06/life-and-death/ Michael Jackson, professed king of pop, died yesterday. I have one thing to say, "Thank goodness." I realize that a lot of people will consider me inconsiderate and rude. Especially since Jackson's family is (now) mourning his death. To that I have this to say: Michael Jackson was embroiled in a series ... http://www.johnhattaway.com/2009/06/thank-goodness/ I've found that some of the things I want to be doing compared to many of the things I need to be doing have kept me out of a state of equilibrium for some time. Months. I like the idea of writing blog entries and have noted that the number ... http://www.johnhattaway.com/2009/06/searching-for-a-state-of-equilibrium/ Yesterday, as many will recognize was Fathers Day. One of those points on a calendar where, as a dutiful son, I pick up the phone and make a phone call and feel better for having done due diligence. On better years I send cards or attempt to have cacti shipped ... http://www.johnhattaway.com/2009/06/all-things-that-lead-to-yesterday/ As you will have noted, I don't do a lot of updating of late. Part of the reason has been work. Another part of the reason is personal. Without details, because, honestly, they don't matter, as things change in my life I seem to neglect the blog and a few ... http://www.johnhattaway.com/2009/06/what-suffers/ In the movie Across the Universe there is a discussion between a college student and his uncle where the uncle says, "What you do determines who you are," and the college student states, "No. It is who you are that determines what you do." There is no clear resolution to ... http://www.johnhattaway.com/2009/06/what-i-do/ Which, interestingly, might be the title of a book I write at some point. However, not really the point in all of this. Some years ago I discovered an author (I will not be sharing any names) and the author's work. I became quickly enamored of the writing and found myself ... http://www.johnhattaway.com/2009/06/the-fall-from-grace/ I think one of my biggest pet peeves, right behind people who don't drive the speed limit and right in front of a highly reviewed and praised work of fiction that ends up being a pile of crap are people who are such big fans of a book or series ... http://www.johnhattaway.com/2009/06/cant-be-done/ Well, I am two days into the new job. This is good. I am hoping to like it for a while. The drive is about an hour in each direction, but the outcome is more money and the potential for a lot more. Good times. Also, I am still messing around ... http://www.johnhattaway.com/2009/06/quickly-2/