Non Sequiturs: Monday, Football, Search Results, and a Quote

Monday is a solicitor who knocks on your door late at night, rings the bell repeatedly, tries to peek through the front window, and says something like, "I know you're in there. I can hear your television and see you hiding behind the couch. You can't hide from my thermal infrared imager." Inevitably, the only way to make him go away is to open the door and endure his spiel -- all 24 hours of it. (If it helps, imagine Dwight Schrute as Monday.)

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I don't usually watch football, but I saw last night's game between the Patriots and Bills. New England annihilated Buffalo 56-10. In seven possessions, Tom Brady produced seven touchdowns; Randy Moss scored four of them in the first half. It was a beautiful game. If some die-hard Patriots fans don't memorialize the team's performance with a poem, song, or YouTube video, I'll be surprised and very disappointed.

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My site has the dubious distinction of being the first result people find when searching for the opposite of funny. The web is trying to tell me something, but I can't hear it over my own laughter.

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Last night, I finished reading One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey, the book based on the journals that Richard Proenneke kept during the first sixteen months he spent building a cabin and living alone in Alaska. It was one of those books that I consciously tried to read slower, a difficult task since I couldn't stop turning pages to find out what he did next. If the copy I read didn't belong to the public library, I would happily add it to my own collection. I guess I'll just have to buy a copy (a hardbound edition, if possible).

There are a number of quotable passages from the book, but I'll leave you with one from the epilogue that expresses how I often feel...

"News never changes much. It's just the same things happening to different people. I would rather experience things happening to me than read about them happening to others. I am my own newspaper and my own radio. I honestly don't believe that man was meant to know everything going on in the world, all at the same time. A man turns on the TV and all those commentators bombard him with the local, the national and the international news. The newspapers do the same thing, and the poor guy with all of the immediate problems of his own life is burdened with those of the whole world."