Needs

I had planned on getting an early start today. My schedule at work had me working from 5:45 this morning until 2:45 this afternoon. By 4:00, I should have been here at home, manuscript beside me while I imputed the corrections into my laptop. My plans never seem to pan out. Damn you! I ended …

Recharged and looking forward

I haven't been updating as frequently as I should. I'm sorry about that. It's just that I haven't had much going on as of late. I didn't feel like repeating myself. My posts were becoming redundant. I felt that taking some time away was the right thing to do. So now I'm back, feeling recharged, …

Change of plans

This was my plan for yesterday. I worked from six in the morning until three. I had planned to get home, take a short reinvigorating nap, and then start working on Jasmine. It was supposed to be a nice, quite evening at home. Instead, on the way home I got a text from my brother. What …

Snark and gratitude

Yesterday when I arrived at work, one of my assistant managers saw me and waved me over to the store manager's office, which is always a great way to start of the day. She then handed me a small envelope in which a Starbucks gift card and a thank you card had been placed. It …

The long week ahead

Today is Friday, and this is my last day off until next Saturday. I hate working long stretches. Hell, I hate working, period. No, let's be positive. I have a job. It pays me a pathetic wage, but at least it's in a currency that (still) has some intrinsic value attached to it. Tomorrow I'll …

Camp Nano – 2 days until it begins

I didn't mean to do it, but I signed up for Camp NaNoWriMo. Great plan! I don't have a computer yet, so let's sign up to write something. Brilliant! Fantastic! What the hell am I thinking!!!!! Okay, it's not really that bad. My goal is a very modest 10K words, a short story that has …

In the meantime…

I hate having ideas with no way to do anything about them. I miss having a computer where I can type until I've run out of things to say, to create on a page a world that exist solely in the depths of my mind. Plus, keeping up my blog has been difficult. I have no timetable as to …

A few more small steps towards life

Work on my project is slow, but I'm happy to report there has been some progress. I've been working on a truck, a '93 Chevy 1500 to be precise. It's an old beat-up work truck in need of a little TLC, which my brothers have provided with yours truly providing some back-up. They have more …

The cardboard sign

On my way to work yesterday, I happened upon a curious sign. I came across a panhandler on the side of the frontage road after I got off my exit. There, on the side of a busy intersection stood a relatively young man, with a beard and a wool a knit cap, holding a cardboard …

Three years strong

Late last month, I let a milestone pass unobserved, not because I meant to, but rather because I completely forgot until after the fact. Three years ago last month, my then wife chose to runaway to move in with some guy she had never met in person, a guy she met online and talked on …