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Seeking inspiration, I am leaving the repetitive and heading out for the likely predictable.

Wish me luck.

Why, when I think of my small failures in life, do I tend to feel most inspired?

As if I can go back and have a do-over of the moment I originally got wrong and nail it this time.

Anytime I hear somebody say something about having a novel idea, it makes me wonder if I could have gotten 50,000 words out of that one thought.

At the Indians game last night Hannah pointed to a near-by vendor and said, "Outside of this seat, would you ever buy anything from that guy?"  I followed her invisible-finger-ray-pointing-device to find a man who hadn't had a shave or a haircut in nearly a decade.  When he smiled, or tried to, you were treated to a flash of beautiful brown teeth, ( Read more... )

What happened here is I don't know.  How it happened is more of the same.

It's time to scrape off the rust build up, and start waxing and polishing.

It's time to shift out of first, because high rpm's will only take you so fast in one gear.

What happened here is I've been absent.  How it happened is a series of excuses.  Excuses mind you, not ( Read more... )

well, ms rowling saved herself from her previous abomination which was order of the phoenix.  thank god i don't have to complain about the last 100 pages of this book for the next couple of years.  instead i can extoll them.  except for that one thing, but...such is life.

When yo ho ho and an entire bottle of rum is gone in the morning some interesting things probably happened the night previous.

I don't like getting up at noon, it feels like the day is over when only half of that statement is true.

Happy fourth of July, and had I thought of it, I would have wished everybody a happy day on the date it was every ( Read more... )

Ten years is too many.  I wish I could start counting down the days from here instead of adding them up.  As if the days start a count down in ten years time, I'll get her back for a day.  It's not that I was 15 when it happened like it was some big tragedy for me, it's that I was fifteen and didn't know shit, especially about her.  It's like ( Read more... )

I don't know what made me think of it, but that old saying, "You learn something new everyday," *punch in the shoulder* popped into my head.  I got curious and reviewed my day to see if it's true for today.

Low and behold, it is.

It took a while to remember, but I learned on the radio that if you have a block of lead in a boat and drop it into the ( Read more... )