A Moment's Aaaaugh

There are so many things to do in this life -- write stories, design computers, raise kids, play the trumpet, sing harmony, get through a P90X cycle, build an art car, figure out a way to "gift" calligraphic wonders onto half-naked young women's bodies at Burning Man -- so much to do that one is hard-pressed to choose what to focus on. Each has its rewards -- none are done well if distracted by the others. Story of my life. The question then is, what causes your heart to sing, your mind to scream That! That! That is what I should be doing!?

As I pulled into the parking lot, NPR was doing a segment on CES. They were talking about a slew of new wireless medical devices and their apparent lack of security. My heart and soul went, "Aaaaugh!" I don't care about security. But I do care to design neat stuff that does more than take pretty pictures, and wireless medical merges a few things I have interest / experience in. Let me tabulate.

Thing	Win Factor
Gadget	Fun
Wireless	Cool
Medical	Have Experience
Useful	Might pay the bills -- and not a weapon or other toy

So now what? Back to work implementing test vehicles for smartphone chip development -- bo-rang! -- and putting my extra energy into cleaning and repairing and settling and organizing and dreaming about making an art car so some hot chick all snuggly from a molly hit will be all over me for a couple hours one night in the desert. Wow. What an aspiration.

What? Yeah, I'm a little cynical at art car people's motivations. Sue me. Point is, I wanna be spending my time making neat stuff. Well, I do, but I mean even neater. I'm an old senior dude now and not exactly prepared for retirement and the big corporation isn't going to take care of that for me. Big corporations don't do that anymore. We have to do what excites us.

What excites us? Well. That changes hourly.