Been so long...

It's been quite some time since I've posted a blog.  Even longer since I've had anything published.

At least I have a (teeny) excuse this year, as I've been dealing with some health issues that make me really not feel like writing.  But I've got to get myself in gear.  Time's slipping away...

2015

Thanks for the comment, Jeremy!

Now I can't get that Pearl Jam song out of my head.  "Lemon yellow sun..."

Writing is coming very slowly.  I don't know what to do about it.

Comment, please!

I can't comment on Blogger unless I enable cookies--do you have the same problem?

If comments aren't working for you, there's a comment form over to the right side.  Or, someone tell me how to get the normal comments working.  I even allow anonymous comments! For now, at least.

Out with the old

Getting rid of old PC today.  It’s still working, though old, and I’d really have preferred to donate it to a person or charity, but I’m too paranoid about the hard drive.  I’ve wiped it, several times, but I keep reading online that wiping isn’t enough.  You need to physically destroy the hard drive before you give it away.

I was going to do the Dell-Reconnect with Goodwill, but wouldn’t you know it – there’s not a location anywhere near me!  I thought all Goodwill stores were participating, but the closest one is in the next state.  Poo.  So, recycling it is.

They sure don’t make it easy.

The Game of Waiting

Waiting to hear back about stories I've submitted.

Waiting to get in the mood to write.

Waiting to...feel...better.  For more than 15 minutes at a time.

Someone asked a question: What is the difference between loving someone and being "in love" with someone?

This is what I think:

When you love someone, you love them for who they really are.

When you are in love with someone, you love them for who you want them to be.

Am I brilliant or what?

Declutter

If you're like me, you have a pile of notebooks with your journals, "ideas", and angsty teenage love scratchings sitting in the corner of your room.  Or next to your computer.  What to do with all this paper?

I don't want to throw away recycle this, but I want to just...make it smaller.  Make it all smaller.  I wish I could snap my fingers and digitize half of my library.  Or just get one of those Wile E. Coyote Acme zappers and shrink it all down to the size of 1 box.  Or was that a de-moisture-izer, and it would all turn into a small cup of dust until, with the addition of a single drop of water, it would all magically scientifically reappear, re-materialize, re-matter?

What would be great would be if I could donate books to the local county library system with the stipulation that all titles would remain in circulation until I either move away, die, or, er, no longer care.  That way they'd be accessible to me and my fellow locals with good taste.  And that would solve my clutter problem.

Well, some of it.  I don't really foresee scanning all these notebook pages going back to the 80s in pdfs.  I just need more space!