Oops.

Don't worry. I haven't forgotten about this thing. I'm just really, really lazy. Writing, I've found, is just like going to the gym. You have to get into a routine, a set plan, in order to be able to see the benefits of the hard work. Yes, it sucks to wake up at seven in the morning when you don't have to be at work for another four hours. It has to be serious change. And once you get into the habit, not only does it become easier to get to the gym, the opposite is also true. It becomes harder to NOT go to the gym. That is, until, you get out of your routine and you skip a day. And then you skip another day. And another. Then you rationalize your not going to the gym by telling yourself that it's good to skip the gym for a week or two because your body was probably too comfortable with all that exercise and that skipping for a week will trick your body so that when you finally do go back your muscles will have no idea what's going on, turning your body into a fat incinerating furnace. Then, three weeks later you find yourself looking at yourself in the mirror trying to figure out who the fat loser is with the Cheetos crumbs all over his face, wondering, where did that person go who was actually starting to get into shape?
I'm not speaking from personal experience or anything. Hmmm.
Writing this blog has been the same. I went out of town three weeks ago and didn't have any internet connection where I was and so this little project of mine sort of went on the back burner for a few days. Then, when I got back to town I said to myself, "you've already missed a few days; another is no big deal."
That was three weeks ago.
And then something really strange happened. People started asking me why I hadn't written anything. It was like having a weight drop on your foot in the gym (side note: that happened to me one time. My toenail literally bled for three weeks).
So, I'm sorry and I'm flattered. I will try to be more disciplined.
Not really a whole lot going on at the Cedars these days, but for some reason the members have been very vocal about how much of a drag getting older is. I'm not sure if there's anything to that. Maybe they always have and I just haven't been paying attention but I don't think that's it.
At this point I'm going on four hours sleep and I'm reaching for something to write. Finito.