it's a short working week but it sure seems to be taking a long time.

I've just spent some time evaluating my DVD collection. Your movies must say something about you. One time I thought about starting a thread on aus.dvd about doing an analysis of people based on the contents of their collections...here's a quick list of mine - you make your own conclusions :-

Alien
Antz
Bone Collector, The
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Braveheart
Brewster's Millions
Contact
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Das Boot
Desperado / El Mariachi
Exorcist, The: 25th Anniversary
Fifth Element, The
Fight Club
Gladiator
Good Will Hunting
Great Escape, The
Heat
Jackie Brown
Jebediaries
Jumanji
Lawrence of Arabia
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Matrix, The
Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, The
Moby - Play The DVD
Notting Hill
Paris Concert for Amnesty International
Patch Adams
Perfect Storm, The
Point Break
Prince Of Egypt, The
Pulp Fiction
Red Hot Chili Peppers:Funky Monks
Right Stuff, The
Rounders
Saving Private Ryan
Se7en
Shaft
Shanghai Noon
Snatch
Spartacus
Sting, The
Super Speedway
Superman II
Superman: The Movie
There's Something About Mary
Tomorrow Never Dies
Toy Story 2
U-571
Walking With Dinosaurs

Some of these are embarrassing to own (which doesn't mean I don't like them btw)

Some of these I own and don't even like - buying for appearances?

Which movies would I care about losing in a fire?

I like light hearted comedys but don't own many

What would be really enlightening would be to have accurate figures for how many times I have watched each. Some would be 0. Why even bother taking the shrink wrap off until I watch it?

I know in the early days of home theatre and DVD I used to buy movies because of the quality of the transfer/audio mix/extras with the quality of the movie itself being secondary.

So I'm screwing about in the front yard practicing my golf chipping. I have a dozen real balls (not plastic practice whiffle balls) and a net my wife got for xmas. I'm just bumping them at the net 8 or 10 feet away. Carole comes up and asks to have a go.

"Are you sure you want to try with real balls?"

"Yes of course."

A minute later she's had one swing, one divot out of the front lawn, the ball goes sailing over the front fence and goes bouncing up the road towards a neighbour's car. We both just stand there watching it go..bounce bounce bounce...it didn't hit the car. And Carole didn't hit any more golf balls. :)

My wife just got home with a present for me. New board shorts. She bought them because they were cheap...but I just bought 2 pairs recently. I guess you can never have too many pairs :)

Why

Why have I started a blog? To learn more about myself. To write about something requires that you think about it. When what you are writing about is yourself and your life, then the process of thinking about it may lead to a greater understanding of both. At least that's what I hope :)

About me

My name is Tony and I live in Australia. But rather than give you some great spiel about my hobbies and interests, I'll wait until they pop up in my life and you can gradully find out about me. If they don't pop up in my life then they musn't be hobbies or interests...We'll see what evolves as time goes by.

I'll cover one aspect of my personality today and the others I'll also leave for when they are topical. I'm an obsessive person. By that I mean I get interested in something and I obsess on it. It consumes my thoughts. I dream about it. My web browsing is dominated by it. I buy paraphenalia to do with it. I borrow books from the library to find out more about it. Not sure if it's entirely healthy but it's how I am.

I can't face typing it all over again tonight. I need sleep........

Don't you hate it when you spend an hour typing something up and then lose it? Well that's what just happened to me..my very first blog post and when I clicked Post and Publish I get vbscript errors and can't salvage what I had typed :(