A background to fit my mood, and an introduction

The rain does not mean I'm feeling gloomy; it means that the only thing I really hate about Utah's climate is the inversion layer in the winter and that I wish it would rain more often to keep the skies clear.

Everyone else in my family seems to have a blog now, and it appears to be the preferred method of communication to the extended family and circle of friends about one's life circumstances. I see the advantages, of course: it's easy for relatives you don't have much contact with to have a vague idea of what's going on in your life, it's a better way to share pictures than email, and hey! maybe someone will buy something from Amazon through a link on your blog and earn you a few dollars. However, it does bother me that the electronic discussion replaces real interaction. At Christmas, we barely even talked to each other, since everyone was absorbed with their own gadgets. We now communicate better through email, chat, and telephone than face-to-face. At least on a blog, I know whoever reads is actually paying attention--you don't get that guarantee in real life.

I'm not sure how often I'll be posting to this blog in the next few months; Alex and I have some really serious work to be done in the next four months in our business, and already, two and a half weeks into the new year, I feel physically, mentally, and emotionally exhausted by the task ahead of us. But at the same time, there's a kind of exhilaration that accompanies working towards such a lofty goal as building a successful, self-sustaining business, and I believe it can be done. I just might sleep for forty days after we're done. (Hence the desire to be a polyphaser.)

So here goes, and I'll try to check in a couple times a month until things get interesting.

2010 Movies in Review

Here are the movies from 2010 that I recommend, broken down into a few different sections: action/adventure, drama, comedy, and movies I would recommend to my parents.