“To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.”

- Leonard Bernstein

Fresh off of my utter failure of a blog last week, I've renewed my commitment to you, the reader. I'm also not sick anymore and this is column is due tomorrow, so that helps a bit too.

I thought about talking about my ideas for TV shows, because I've been watching this show on TLC called John and Kate Plus 8. It's about a couple that used fertility treatments to help the have kids and, guess what? Ended up with eight (in a batch of two and another batch of six). I'm a parent so this kind of shit interests me.

Anyway, I thought the show should be called What A Fucking Mess.

That got me thinking about the other brilliant show ideas I've had while watching TV, like So You Think You Can Dance, Motherfucker?

I ended up abandoning that idea for a topic, for two reasons. It's a little too derivative of my recent movie post. Also, those two ideas I just told you about? Just came up with them tonight and don't have anymore. So that about wraps that up.

Watching these masochists with the 8 kids got me thinking about my home life and how hard it is to carve out time to get anything done. Just tonight my wife and I managed to finish Vacancy, a mediocre thriller starring Kate Beckinsale and Luke Wilson. Yes, it's exactly as good a movie as it sounds, and you can probably guess the entire plot from the title and the cast.

It took us three days to finish the movie, and not entirely because we didn't really care what happened to the hapless wanderers. That's just how long it takes sometimes.

The other day I was comparing dishwashing to debt management, where you have a sink full of dishes and can't imagine how you'll ever get through them all? You first have to stop the bleeding, and don't create any new dirty dishes. Wash dishes while the dinner is cooking, just enough to eat off of for the meal. Then wash just one more, and slowly but surely you'll climb out of that dish-debt. It might take years, but it will happen. It's like making the minimum monthly payment.

I don't know how I find time to shoot whenever Yuri stamps his little feet and makes demands for my time, but somehow I do. It's like I've always got a secret stash of time tucked away that I can pull out for special occasions.

Speaking of which, I have one day of shooting left for the latest episodes. We love cutting things close more than anything else, that's for sure.