"too many 'notes'"

As we begin here today:
To quote from the movie Amadeus, when Mozart asks the king why he doesn't like the latest musical composition, the king ever-so-cleverly replies, "Because there are just, well, just too many notes"...and so it goes.  Sometimes the answers make no sense, sometimes there is NO answer, and sometimes the questions themselves are the problem !

I'm lucky enough to have a truly great job: creative, challenging, ever-changing, and the chance to work with some very talented people.  But as in all creative endeavors, and in much of today's broadcast environment there seem almost a class chasm...the people who instinctively understand how to produce great work and those that either don't have the experience, the desire or dare-I-say the talent to do so.  

There is nothing wrong with not having the talent to be a great tv producer.  (Sounds almost Seinfeldian!) I mean it's not like I have the talent to be a mathematician or a linguist or a doctor.  But being a pretty intellectually curious sort, I struggle to understand not wanting to learn how and why something does work.  

Here's what I question today:

-does any regular person actually know what is in the stimulus package?

-if we do bail out the carmakers does it signal the end of capitalism?

-what will happen to the glut of unoccupied foreclosed-on houses & comm'l property?  Are we going to become a land of futuristic, empty, burned-out buildings with hungry, unemployed, wild-eyed people roaming the streets?

-why was I still up at 11:00 last night reading Shakespeare so I could quiz my 16 yr. old son on Julius Ceasar this morning at 5:30?

However, it's also Friday and this week I'm still blowin' up on FaceBook, our new wx maps and wx presentation ROCK,  I've learned (kinda) how to blog,  and I'm hoping against hope that there is a large martini in my future.  

My friend Shawn told me yesterday, as we shared our woes and fears (mostly mine) about 401k's & investments & children & jobs "ya know, this scary thing we are living through isn't going to be a sprint.  If you run at your flat-out hardest for the first mile, you'll be dead long before this thing is over."  Good advice, much easier to agree with than to live.