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I think I may finally have to delete my season pass to Inside The Actors Studio.

I mean, when they had Billy Joel on, I raised my eyebrow. When they had Ben Afflek on, I had serious questions. When they had Antonio Banderas on, I was pretty sure they had finally been reduced to blatantly whoring themselves.

But, tonight, I come home from dinner, and find James Lipton interviewing Pierce Brosnan. I haven’t watched it yet, but I can’t wait to hear about all the intense sense memory work he had to do to get in touch with his brilliant portrayal of Remington Freaking Steele.

Have they done Keanu yet, because you have to know he’s next. Seriously, WTF!?

People used to know me as Biff Raleigh. For most of my early years, that was my name. I won’t go into the long and sordid story of how I came to be called Biff. Needless to say, parents can be cruel. Hey, at least I didn’t have George Forman or Frank Zappa naming me.

I mention it here, because I was trying to dig up an e-mail address or something for some old friends, and I realized if they were ever searching for me, they’d never find me. Now, hopefully, there will be something for their most likely search to hit on.

I can’t find them either. I’m guessing the names are too common, or they’ve changed or they aren’t on the web or my search-fu is not up to snuff. Anyway, I went to Millard North High School in Omana, NE. I graduated in the class of 1988 or the class of ‘88. After that, I went to Kearney State College in Kearney, NE. After that, I went to University of Nebraska at Omaha. After that I got the hell out of Nebraska. Hey, I’m no dummy. It’s cold there a lot and it snows and stuff.

Speaking of searching, a few days ago, the cache that Google had for my site was much more current than the one they have now. I suspect they may have pulled their most recent cache in response to a complaint from that company I’ve been fighting with. Not sure about that, but other things lead me to suspect it’s probably the case. Google seems to play too fast and lose with their indexes. It makes me wonder what else I’m not seeing when I go to find somebody or research a company. I think I need to start looking for a new default search engine.

That puts me approximately here:
1 ——–*———– 0

I can’t believe I’ve already used up something like 41% of my life. I would have thought that I would have accomplished more by this point. I was thinking, maybe it’s just that I don’t have any goals, so I figured I’d sit down and come up with some.

My Life Goals

• Graduate College
• Move Someplace with Decent Weather
• Get Job as Creative Director
• Purchase a Home
• Learn to Fly - I have this one partially struck out. I have about 3 or 4 hours. I have taken off, flown around and landed. In doing that, I accomplished my main goal, so I’m not sure I want to put in the time/expense of actually getting a pilot’s license (unless I am one day in a position to buy my own plane)
• Buy Own Plane (what the hell)
• Write a Novel
• Retire a Millionaire
• Buy Vacation Home - Maybe a cabin in the woods on a lake or some place down by the beach, some place quiet where I can get away when I need a break
• Learn a Second Language
• Learn to Sail
• Create One Thing That is Genuinely, Intrinsically Good
• ??????

Is that it? Somehow it just doesn’t feel like a full and complete life. Within that, I suppose there will be other things like watch lots of TV, read lots of interesting books, listen to lots of interesting music, meet a few interesting people, fall in love a few times. Those things just don’t seem like goals though. Find a way to live forever seems like a goal. With anticipated advances in biotech and nano-science, that even seems like it might be possible.

I don’t know. I think I need more ideas. What are your goals?