A Foggy New Year

Happy 2005! We awoke in Phoenix today to heavy fog, something that is rare here in the desert, but which seems somehow appropriate for the first day of a new year.

The visibility is low, kind of like my vision of what the new year holds. I'm not particularly worried about the year ahead - the job situation seems to be as stable as it has been in awhile, finances are OK, and things on the homefront are good. But, you just never know what the future will bring and I'm sure there will be plenty of unanticipated twists and turns in 2005.

Today's fog also makes me a little nervous since we watched the movie, House of Sand and Fog, last night. It's an excellent movie, but for a person with a strong built-in sense of paranoia like me, it's a little disconcerting. The movie illustrates how seemingly innocent and harmless decisions can have devastating effects that lead to more decisions that have even more devastating effects. For a person like me who always tends to see disaster looming at the end of every road, it's a bit of a chiller. I'm just hoping that today's fog doesn't forebode the kinds of disasters that those poor people in foggy San Francisco experienced in that movie.

I just gotta remind myself - it's just a movie. Even I couldn't possibly make such boneheaded decisions. I hope.