I just love the way she says that at the end of the Human Nature video. "Absolutely No Regrets."

No, I was neither watching it nor listening to the song just now. The quote just popped into my brain. :)

Short and sweet.

GOALS for this weekend:

• Get the new Content Collective color selection code into production. If it rots in there too long, I may not even remember how it's supposed to work by the time I get around to it. Pray that this has not happened yet. It will be tomorrow's big activity.
• See the Antitrust movie. It's been ages since I've been to a theater. And this is one of those movies that I absolutely must check out. Tonight. (Traffic might be good too, but that's not a goal this weekend.)
• Write the last bits of my movielog submission script in order to get it working. As I recall, it was pretty damn close before. A few more pieces to finish. Later tonight. If unexpected problems occur, it might end up getting finished tomorrow.
• Get the web code back into CVS. Depending on how long other things take, and how much time I spend sleeping and lazing around, it will either be tomorrow or Sunday.

Things I MIGHT do this weekend (but don't count on it):

• Get Argo's virtual hosting and apache directory structure into a slightly saner, more consistent configuration. This in preparation for further expansion of the bitscape.org territories.
• Put GPL headers on all my web files, write up a few README files, throw together some tarballs, and put all the web code -- lounge, content collective, and various perl modules -- out there for public consumption. If I get around to it.
• See Traffic. If I'm REALLY in a theater happy mood. We'll see.
• Rent DVD's. Could happen.
• Watch any of the excellent DVD's I already own. Quite likely, actually.
• Go to a nightclub, get piss drunk, and wake up in some strange alley where gangsters are lurking in the distant shadows. Ya never know.
• Watch the rerun of Xena. I believe the season 6 premiere is airing again this weekend. I could go for that.
• Figure out whether or not I'm going to go to the company party next weekend. Actually, that really should be in the "goals" section, but I forgot about it, and I don't feel like moving it back up now. See below.

So yeah, the company is having a party next weekend. Semi-formal. RSVP by Monday.

I still haven't decided whether or not I actually want to go. On the one hand, it could be fun. On the other, it could be really hokey. Do I really want to spend a Saturday night schmoozing with the apostrophe-impaired marketing people? Uh, not much thought required to answer that question: No.

Now, if I could glob onto a pack of engineers who actually talk about interesting things... But we generally do that everyday anyway. Oh, but the other advantage: Free food. It's supposed to be really good free food. Is that the killer incentive?

Ho hum. Getting all dressed up and shit. To go and eat a free dinner, hang out with da people, down a few drinks. (Unless I designate myself as a driver. Ptst.) Sounds like lots of hassle for a potential "Oh I wish I could get out of here to go home and relax" evening.

But on the other side, there's the possibility of the "Oh I'm bored at home and I wish I were doing something interesting even if it meant being at some HR-sponsored company party" evening.

Unpredictable. Life is unpredictable. Absolutely no regrets.

Absolutely no regrets. How is it to live through life like that? I know I have lived life with that spirit during certain periods. It is an amazing way to live, but difficult to do for a long time while still keeping one's honesty in tact. Ideally, perfect honesty and perfect lack of regrets would go hand in hand. Because if one is 100% honest, then one always makes the best choice based on the information at hand. Hence, no regrets.

Honesty falls apart? Then so does the "no regrets" living.

Hmmm... Well, that's my philosophical babbling for the evening. I'm gonna go grab some grub.

Peace.