Pretty good.

This is an interesting little video. Probably good to remember. I also like that it was done by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, those guys are smart.

David Byrne --- Talks About Music and Venue

Swimming, harder than it looks

So around new year's a friend of mine put out a challenge to run a sprint triathlon, knowing that this is what white guys in their early 30's are supposed to do I accepted. Heck it was January, ambition was still high and there was no real commitment beyond a registration fee.

Well its nearing the end of frigging April. Work is back to being insane, and I in classic style am cramming 6 months of training into 2 1/2.

Tonight, got in the pool to swim laps for the first time in a long time. Needless to say the image I have of myself gliding through the water is in stark contrast to the splashing mess I make going through the pool.

Did manage to swim 300 yards, but not without a lot of almost killing myself.

I am procrastinating

I am procrastinating. A lack of meetings makes getting down to revisions tough.

Saw that my last blog post was after my second guitar lesson. Well, at least guitar is making better progress than blogging. Tonight is probably marking about six months worth of lessons. Working on "She talks to Angels" and "Melissa".

Also, moved again -- two weeks ago actually. This time to glorious Kalamazoo. So far, better than Battle Creek (a low bar).

Had another book idea.

Gutiar Lesson #2

Just got home from guitar lesson #2, I'm up to theoretically knowing how to play ten chords. Now if I could just get my fingers to take on a totally new shape.

Also, may have just had the best conversation with Comcast, ever. They actually were able to solve my problem. Amazing.

Beer Garden Season Officially Open

Spent last night at the Bell's Beer Garden.  Pretty much one of the best places on Earth, or at least Kalamazoo.  

Heading to Foster's soccer game in about 10 minutes, than off to the SW Side for some games of bags, and I'm sure some beer drinking.  

Hopefully the rain that's planned, won't happen.  Damn April showers.

Back at writing...

Been away from the blog for a while.... I won't get into it in detail but "distracted" and "led on" feels like enough to say about it.  Either way a little pain and a little heartache always  seem to fire up the creative juices.  I write better angry, and drunk.  I can always edit sober.  

Just got back from dodgeball, only four players from the team showed up.  Won anyway.  Nice.

Going to start writing seriously again, now.  If nothing else for sanity's sake.  

To start, I need to begin my Murtagh List, i.e. a list of "shit I'm too old for" -- things like Dawn Patrols.  I certainly don't see myself abiding by this list all that often... good to have as reference though.

Also, the book is getting going.  I have at the very least one year at the new job (or more specifically February 2010), and while I'm here (and since there is so little else to do in this town) I am finishing this effort.   

It'll be ten years soon since the Chapter 1 happened.   A decade feels like a good amount of time to have passed in order to accurately take stock of a situation enough to write about it.