After a month long marathon I finished revisions on my novel last night. Had a deadline for entering it in a contest. <\/p>\n
Over the last month I’ve worked on the book an average of four hours a day. That might not seem like a lot to some, but it’s on top of all that other stuff that gets in the way of writing – work, dog, wife, auto maintenance, making jam, and sleeping. Not nearly enough sleeping.<\/p>\n
A full 12 hour respite was taken before being awakened this morning and returning to the computer to resume work on general writing tasks. There’s more deadlines, more projects, a few commercials to record, and other stuff that will be announced in due course.<\/p>\n
The biggest coup of the day was fixing the air conditioning in my car. My friends will vouch for me being a theory guy, but not so much with a wrench. I did some googling and found a video on how to fix it. $28.00 worth of parts and not a single bad word later I have a multi-speed blower once again. Mark your calendars – that won’t happen a gain in the near future.<\/p>\n
A concern has been expressed about my health with such demanding schedules. Someone made specific recommendations on how I should deal with my health – lose weight and drink green tea. <\/p>\n
Well, never having been told to lose weight before I – wait a minute, that’s what every doctor tells me to do. And yet the same health issues manifested when I was skinny. I see an analytic issue there – weight is not related to the problems. I’ll go you one and say that my knee problems are exacerbated by my being a husky child, but the tears in the meniscus were both due to athletic events that would tear it in a skinny feller. Sleep apnea – same issue, snored and gasped like a fish when I weighed about 1\/2 of what I weigh now at less than half my current age. <\/p>\n
Am I too fat? Yes. Trying to lose some weight is an ongoing thing for me. Danged donuts and bacon.<\/p>\n
Here’s the howler: I disagreed with the reader’s “diagnosis and prescription” and the retort was that I’m not a medical doctor and thus not entitled to an opinion. <\/p>\n
Says a lot about our culture when you can’t hold a valid opinion without a certification. That the history and knowledge of my body’s condition should be of less import than the national fetish with weight loss is sad. I appreciate good humored advice, but hectoring is not on the list of things I’m open for on a regular basis. <\/p>\n
On to the next project. There’s a pile of printing that needs to be done around here and supplies were running low. Off to Office Universe to spend a pile of money on the world’s most expensive printer ink and a quick return. Ink, unique paper, donuts, and cookies. So much for the weight loss.<\/p>\n
Lest I forget – there was no real point to this blog post. I just had to clear the baffles and head deep. The next few days have more substantial topics to cover and I had this little bit of flotsam to dispose of before I flooded the tanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"