What I’m reading: Sophocles’ Ajax
What I’m listening to: The Last Post
What I’m watching: we finished with the first season of The Wire
What I’m drinking: Rogue’s Dead Guy Ale (because the position of the skeleton on the side of the six-pack made it look like Pogue, and I thought that was funny)
Where I’m going: We didn’t get up to Providence this weekend. Next week, I’ve got a trip to Belfast to visit a client. I’ll have Sunday & Monday on my own, so if you have any suggestions for sights to see in Belfast & environs (I’m thinking of day-tripping up to the coast to see Giants Causeway), mention it in the comments!
What I’m happy about: THE GIANTS WON THE SUPER BOWL!
What I’m sad about: NOTHING! SEE ABOVE!
What I’m pondering: The relationship of men and their gods. Here’s a passage from Sophocles between Athena and Odysseus, after Ajax goes insane and believes that he’s killed Odysseus and the other generals:
  ATH: Do you see, Odysseus, how great the gods’ power is?
Who was more full of foresight than this man,
Or abler, do you think, to act with judgment?
   ODY: None that I know of. Yet I pity
His wretchedness, though he is my enemy,
For the terrible yoke of blindness that is on him.
I think of him, yet also of myself;
For I see the true state of all us that live —
We are dim shapes, no more, and weightless shadow.
   ATH: Look well at this, and speak no towering word
Yourself against the gods, nor walk too grandly
Because your hand is weightier than another’s,
Or your great wealth deeper founded. One short day
Inclines the balance of all human things
To sink or rise again. Know that the gods
Love men of steady sense and hate the proud.