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What inspires you to keep writing?

Answer from 2017:


Right now?  That I’m waiting for these repairmen to return, finish the job I hired them for.

More generally?  It keeps me somewhat level.  I can sit back, close my eyes, and pound something out.

For Novembers, it allows me to reflect some on where I am, correct mistakes I’ve made, and find some peace in time for the holidays.

The stretch from September of last year until July of this year is a complete blur.  (Well, that’s the case of many, many things, on account of my failing vision, but….)

I think I still can do some quality work, although I have to approach things differently.  Things really scream by.  I hope that I haven’t disappointed too many people.

My desire for revenge is kind of gone.  Things do occasionally pop up that I have to look into, dig back through my archives, and inquire whether there’s something that might bite me.

So much of what’s coming out in the news is about behavior I just can’t comprehend.  Have I done things I regret?  Absolutely.  Is any nearly as bad as what (long string of celebrities) did?

Not by a longshot.

I still haven’t had the opportunity to delve into stuff from 2012 thoroughly. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe Friday Who knows? For tomorrow:  How do you feel about people’s need to post every detail of their relationships on social media? Are you guilty?


In previous years, it was really just something to see if I could do it. Obviously, I’ve more than shown that I can.

The summer writing periods were something to get my mind off the horrible situation in which I’d been placed.

My psychologist says that it’s a symptom of OCD. Obviously, I haven’t written during the summers in a while, and this may very well be my last November. This is fifteen years. The first time I did it, I was a newlywed seeking to figure out if there was anything creative I could do.

I’m not really doing that much reflecting at this point. This year, while, yes, there’s some things I’m lining up for the rest of the year, things are somewhat predictable.

Am I bored with it? I don’t know. It’s not really a chore, but I think I’m so busy that it’s something I have to remind myself to do. My early idea of setting aside a specific time each day came and went.

Oh well.

This year’s been spent working way too much. Maybe I’ll get some benefit from that, but I’m not holding my breath.

The stupidity with the election is over, so I can peek in on that and see what’s going to happen. I don’t have high hopes, but there are some streaks of promise. Elon Musk posting videos of Milton Friedman is great, but I kind of think that things are past the point of rescue; bad things are on the horizon.

So, find something to enjoy, maybe. Silo is back, but I go back and forth as to whether we should get a start on it, or wait until it’s all dropped.

As I said recently, I do have some medical stuff to do, but that’s not until next year. I haven’t seen any donor meetups for the things I support. Football isn’t great, but I am kind of interested to see what Jameis Winston does to the former Failcons guy tonight.

Maybe I should get back into the rhythm of pointing something out as I wrote about in the old entry about this? Ummmm The doc disagrees.

Still, two-thirds finished which is a bit of an accomplishment. I’m getting proved right more and more with work, which has led to me being sidelined on decisions where I might pipe up with disagreement.

Just ignore him; he doesn’t let us waste the money we want.