“Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. But I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment because they’ll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we’ve lived. After all, Number One, we’re only mortal.”
– Captain Picard

If you are a fan, this scene is a hard one to watch, the ending scene :). Picard is a huge hero of mine, as a kid he was a big influence, and continues to do so.

When you stay in a “hotel” where you barricade the door at night with a chair, keep a “weapon” on hand, or sleep on top of the bed on a towel.

I only have a few of these nights, but they are def still vivid :). For some reason, this hit me when I checked my bed for bedbugs tonight, although it’s not quite a “chair under the door handle” place, nor the slightly worse “wine-bottle-next-to-bed-for-stabbing” place.

It doesn’t feel so bad, I’m probably in better shape then any other point of my life, even with death sitting on my shoulder ;). Plus just imagine how awesome my mid life crisis is going to be considering I buy night vision goggles and python skinned cowboy boots in my teens and twenties. Certainty something to look forward too.

I also made some plans for the next couple years. I’ve been wanting to travel some more and spend another year abroad. So in late December or January I’m going to head down to Nicaragua for a while to visit Joel and Laura. And then travel around Central and South America until late May. I will spend at least a month in both Argentina and Brazil, and I’m still working on other locations (probably Uruguay/Chile, and hopefully Panama to visit a friend). Then in May/June I’m heading to Australia for a year as I got my visa to go there! I haven’t done any reading yet but I believe they have nothing poisonous or deadly on the entire continent, just cuddly little koala bears.

I had a random thought today, I would like my tomb stone to read “Mildly Competent”.