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Present Time
Oct. 13th, 2015 09:54 pmIt feels like there's no place for the present in my journal these days. Several months ago, I became so overwhelmed by the negative turn of daily events that I felt unable to write about them. So I went out and got one of those massive 3" ring binders for my LJ compilation project and resumed that for a sense of, I dunno, continuity with my own previous life as a would-be, wanna-be, coulda-been writer.
And for several weeks I did manage to spend about 2-3 hours per day compiling, editing, and re-writing about 2-3 years worth of past LJ entries. Which resulted in a nearly-full binder of approximately 600 pages. Then a major household project took priority - repairing/replacing a furnace duct that my son had wrecked - and I gave up the journaling for another couple of weeks.
The furnace project has been progressing by "fits and starts" - plagued by my own inexperience and the lack of quality repair parts - and I've also been thinking about our oldest daughter's upcoming visit from her home in California. Our second daughter had recently asked about some family history, which I happened to have written about, and I've been considering what I might be able to put together for the two of them.
In the meantime, daily life does go on. Our grandson Jason has, I think, three games left in his first season of modified (scholastic) soccer, about a week and a half's worth, but lots else has happened that I'm still not inclined to discuss on a semi-public forum.
There's also some spare moments given to Stanislaw Lem's Solaris, gotten from the local library. Which seems to be saving me, at least for now, from yet another reading of Peter Heller's The Dog Stars.
So I guess this entry will have to suffice as my "proof of life," such as it is. Hopefully I'll be able to report, in a few days time, that the furnace has been fixed before the outdoor soccer has ended and the cold weather begun...
LPK
LiveJournal
10.13.2015 (a)
And for several weeks I did manage to spend about 2-3 hours per day compiling, editing, and re-writing about 2-3 years worth of past LJ entries. Which resulted in a nearly-full binder of approximately 600 pages. Then a major household project took priority - repairing/replacing a furnace duct that my son had wrecked - and I gave up the journaling for another couple of weeks.
The furnace project has been progressing by "fits and starts" - plagued by my own inexperience and the lack of quality repair parts - and I've also been thinking about our oldest daughter's upcoming visit from her home in California. Our second daughter had recently asked about some family history, which I happened to have written about, and I've been considering what I might be able to put together for the two of them.
In the meantime, daily life does go on. Our grandson Jason has, I think, three games left in his first season of modified (scholastic) soccer, about a week and a half's worth, but lots else has happened that I'm still not inclined to discuss on a semi-public forum.
There's also some spare moments given to Stanislaw Lem's Solaris, gotten from the local library. Which seems to be saving me, at least for now, from yet another reading of Peter Heller's The Dog Stars.
So I guess this entry will have to suffice as my "proof of life," such as it is. Hopefully I'll be able to report, in a few days time, that the furnace has been fixed before the outdoor soccer has ended and the cold weather begun...
LPK
LiveJournal
10.13.2015 (a)
