Strange. I haven’t written anything since last Wednesday or Thursday. Now that it’s time to get some stuff ready for the morning, I find that I don’t have it in me. My writing muscles won’t flex. They’ve atrophied. It’s great to take time off, but I find that this is sometimes the result — I …
I’ve been blogging full-time for six weeks now. It’s both good and bad. Obviously, I love the work. But as many people have warned, I’m going a little stir-crazy. In my former life as a box salesman, I got daily contact with my co-workers, including Jeff and Nick. This is a small universe, to be …
It feels so good to finally break through a barrier. Or two. The last week has been awful. I haven’t been able to write. I sit and stare at the computer screen, but nothing comes. “I’ve lost it,” I think. “I’m doomed.” I try to find other things to occupy my time, but all I …
I’m at an interesting place in my life, a place it had never occurred to me I’d reach. My little personal finance blog has taken on a life of its own. It’s a business. It’s a brand. Sure, it’s a small business and a small brand, but that’s a start. But what do I do …
Some days are cursed. Some days everything goes wrong. Most of the time I slog through those days, trying to get things turned around. Sometimes it works. Today, however, I’m giving up. My body and mind are telling me I need a break. It’s Star Trek and video games from now ’til bed time.
When I was a boy, I loved Star Trek. For nearly twenty years, Portland’s KPTV (channel 12) broadcast the series at 4pm every Sunday afternoon. We didn’t have a television for much of my childhood, but most of my friends did. Whenever possible, I would watch Star Trek. When the series was released on DVD …
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. — Tolstoy Nick and I just had a conversation about those incidents that scarred us in our youth. The crazy thing is that to adults — even to us as adults — these things seem trivial. Yet they’re the kind of …
“Do you think it’ll rain” — Dad, whenever it rained heavily It’s pouring outside. The autumnal Oregon rainfall set in two or three weeks early this year, taking away the last few days of September, and making early October swampish. Right now the rain is roaring down in torrents outside my office window. Whenever it …
One of the benefits of having a popular weblog (not this one, obviously) is that your readers send you lots of interesting reading material. Here are a couple of blog posts that are actually closely related to each other: First up, at Brazen Careerist, Penelope writes about four weight-loss tips from her month in the …
The Early Bird
In which I rise at 4 a.m. to excercise and write.
In which I rise at 4 a.m. to excercise and write.