- Today’s a White Blank Page kinda day.
- Some days, the Stream does not flow.
- It’s worse when it’s fiction and not this nonsense.
- Still sucks though.
- At my advanced age, I finally appreciate the need for good sleep.
- Not just some.
- But plenty and good quality
- I mentioned this yesterday.
- Not getting good sleep craters your entire next day.
- I passed out on the couch yesterday afternoon.
- It’s not that I mind a nap.
- I used to.
- The Teenager does.
- She resents them.
- Will not entertain the notion.
- We had a talk about sleeping in school the other day.
- Because I sure did when I was her age.
- She said she’ll put her head on her desk but will not sleep.
- I had no compunction about falling asleep in class.
- There was this one time in Oklahoma History in ninth grade where I was napping and the teacher (yes, I remember her name; she hated me) called on me to answer a question.
- I lifted my head, gave the correct answer, put my head back down.
- My friends told me about her face afterward.
- She also made fun of me, in front of the class, for shopping at the Army Surplus store.
- That day, I had on my black Vision Streetwear, my OD BDUs, and my white Metallica “Crash Course in Brain Surgery” t-shirt.
- Got an A in her class, thank you very much.
- Oklahoma history is the worst and getting worser apparently.
- Thanks, Douche Walters.
- Anyway, sleeping through history class was a thing for me.
- But … I did the head-on-desk thing, too.
- Like I said, I came to the appreciate sleep thing late in life.
- I have only stayed up past midnight a handful of times in the last few years.
- Used to be every day.
- Every night?
- I dunno.
- Fatigue wins out.
- That’s what I’m saying
- Listen to your bodies.
- These days, I miss out on sleep it’s like I stayed up drinking.
- The hangover feels the same.
- And takes as long to recover.
- The worst.
- Also why (you know, when I can) I never have more than two drinks, and probably just once a week.
- Not a tax I want to pay.
- There are plenty I don’t mind.
- We won’t get into that.
- But taxes are necessary for a functioning society.
- You know what else I worry about?
- Not being able to spell.
- Been writing by hand a lot the past few days.
- Paranoia.
- Because people are going to see it.
- We are all dependent upon spellcheck.
- They want me dependent upon Grammarly.
- Get the f out of my face with that.
- Yes, I know the rules.
- Yes, I know if I let Grammarly into my shit, it’ll sound like someone else wrote it.
- I had one of my coworkers ask me how to get better at writing.
- “Write.”
- Sounds ridiculous.
- Trite.
- You have to develop your voice, and there’s only one way to do it.
- Read and write?
- Writing sculpts your brain.
- I always imagine …
- Have I done this already?
- F.
- My brains are fried.
- No writing lesson for you today.
- As usual, I want to talk music.
- Sitting in the living room listening to the Tron Legacy soundtrack again.
- Daft Punk.
- It is good shit.
- My default most days, however, is Tool.
- Since the pandemic, my most-listened-to band.
- I have rebought all their CDs for the car.
- Cold. Dead. Hands.
- But I won’t do that to the Wife while she works from home on the couch.
- Had a station pause.
- “Do you ever listen to music when you work from home by yourself?”
- “Huh-uh.”
- Alrightey then.
- I have to have it.
- You know this.
- Well, some of you do.
- Now the rest.
- I have tinnitus.
- Have had since 2008.
- Music blunts the ring.
- And well, you know how I feel about art.
- Dammit all.
- Music is cathartic.
- Writing these lists does that, too.
- Remember how we started.
- Writer’s block. Bad mood (in case you missed it).
- Doing this for me and inviting people along for the ride.
- Gonna put the headphones on later and do some 10,000 Days.
- And work on the book.
- And call the Mayo.
- This recovery shit is … busy.
- Clock’s ticking, however.
- And my brain is no longer content with the status quo.
- I can keep going.
- Poetry’s becoming a thing.
- And I need to read some Hemingway as a recharge.
- And these prints The Wife got (related) are amazing.
- Need to be on the wall now.
- What I’m saying …
- “… Miles to go before I sleep.”
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