This weekend I woke up at 4:30 AM, roused my likewise insane roommate, and drove out for an hour in order to join more than a hundred other people in throwing our cars around an airplane runway. Being just barely ahead of Winter time (Fall for the rest of the country) it was freezing right up until about noon, we drank enough caffeine each to kill ( Read more... )

Lately I've found myself being incredibly busy. If I'm not working the day job I'm working on my latest writing project, hot sauce, or the car (which is still in miserable shape). By the time I have time off to do anything the moon is high and my next task is to jump in the shower and go to bed, and about seven hours later it all starts over again ( Read more... )

I look across my desk, noting that there is exactly the same number of scratches that I discovered the last fifteen times, and then check the ceiling for any new developments. Again there is no change, which anyone with any common sense could have told me, and I have wasted yet another fifteen seconds of my time in front of the computer. My fingers ( Read more... )

As far as opening entries for extensive, random blogs go I know already that I could do better. Perhaps it's the writer's curse that with every word I type into the little white box another fifty come to mind that would serve better. I take another drink of my coffee (which is more cream and sugar than anything) and then trudge onward, remembering ( Read more... )