Rather than pump-priming with this post, I'm "work-priming". I can't focus and have no chutzpah to be able to do anything. To me, those are the worst times: when you just sit there, wanting to be able to do stuff, but physically and mentally you're just shot, stuck in 1st gear and can't get out of it. 

I attempted to break out of the rut by posting tweets but found I couldn't pack what I wanted to say into 140 characters, so here we are in this blog post.

Last night was gorgeous out. The church camp next door has started filling up with visitors and the ambience emanating from it feels great. It's just nice to have people nearby, especially lots of kids running around playing. If not for the church camp people, the only other sounds are from the many frogs in our pond, or occasionally from our neighbor's rooster. I guess the air is also punctuated at times with kids shooting guns across the street as well, but I digest. 

So I sat outside with the dogs last night and played guitar for the first time in weeks. It's nice to feel like I finally am pretty good at it, but the acoustic I have is a little tough to play. Maybe all acoustics are like that, I don't know.

Earlier in the day I had gotten my car back, $500 in repairs later. It sounds and runs pretty good and will be the backup vehicle to head to Buffalo, in case Mom can't go and we don't take her car. Lynn will be scared to drive in it, but it'll be fine.

When I got home from work (around 6:00) it was over 90 degrees out - too hot for the dogs AND for me. I used to like the heat, but maybe I haven't gotten used to it yet this year. So I napped as I waited for it to cool down when I could run the dogs.

Woke up and Lynn was playing with her brand new iPod touch (she seems to really like it, natch).  About 8:30, it was cool enough to run. Despite it being my first jog (or "yog") in a while we went fast and far, which is a testament to cross-training with biking really helping out.

I then made some Kahlua Mudslide and sat down to play WoW for the first time in months. I made a new account, referred from Lynn's, so we could get the 3x XP bonus. I rolled a Troll Shaman to go with her Troll Mage. It's fun and ok so far and I've played an hour each of the past 2 nights.  The bonus XP rocks and we made it almost to level 10 in those 2 hours. Being able to summon each other is a nice bonus as well.  Not sure if I will continue playing or not - if it stays around an hour a day that'd be ok, but I can't allow it to get more than that.  Stupid Warcrack.

I realize this post is all out of whack timeline-wise, but we are jumping back to when I earlier said I played guitar. Then I settled in for some late-night reading. Myth Inc. Link was the book dujour and it just ROCKS.  Why should you read it? Because one chapter comes from the point of view of a pet dragon with a one-word vocabulary, and you learn that the dragon isn't the pet but instead a supremely wise being using these humans as an experiment.

That is it, your quickly-written, barely-edited blog post. It's been a while, but I suspect I'll be posting more often for a bit what with the Buffalo trip coming up tomorrow. Peace, my homies!