Sincerity Victory for the Day (or
“Reason Why Life Is Better than You Give It Credit For”): You can play fantasy football
with the Puppy Bowl this year! The only thing better than watching puppies run
around for hours is being able to gamble on puppies running around for hours. I’m
going to go with Mandy for my first pick. I think she is going to be a fine
girl and what a good puppy she would be if it wasn’t for the fact that my life,
my love and my lady was a large body of salt water that covers the majority of
the earth’s surface.
Sincerity Failure #2: While sitting at the dentist’s
office watching The Today Show…
Willard
Scott: “Birthday wishes go out to Dolores Smith as she turns 100 years old
today. Dolores’ longevity secret?”
Me: “Pure,
unadulterated anger.”
Like
I said, getting rid of the snark is going to be hard.
So
for people who might be new to this I have started blogging again. Consider it
part of my New Year’s Resolutions of which there are others that I will discuss
over the coming days. Basically I have stopped writing for three years or so
after being a five day a week writer for seven years and a novel a year writer
for thirteen (novel a year in that I wrote enough words in my journal to equal
a novel. Not a novel in the sense that my life either a) had a plot or b) was
something worth reading about). The fact is after a lot of reflection I have
found that I am happier and just a better person in general when I write
regularly. There is just something about having an avenue of expression that I
am comfortable with that makes life easier.
The
challenge though is that I have roughly twenty eight hours of things I would
like to do every day and about thirty hours of things that I have to do every
day so finding the twenty or thirty minutes to write these entries has become a
lot more challenging than it was when I started this blog. Back then I was just
sitting alone in my apartment in Kansas City using a dial up modem still to
just vent about my life. Now I am married with responsibilities and a travel
schedule that has made me one of Southwest’s favorite customers and it is just
that much more challenging to sit down and put some thoughts together. But I’ve
decided that this year I need to make time for this even if it means completely
changing my schedule around.
What
I write about will basically be just whatever is on my mind that day. I don’t
write about my job and I try not to write about relationships. I’ve learned
over the years that it is really difficult for me to write about those things without
making everything worse. It does not help that I will admit that everything I
write, fiction, memoir or non-fiction, is all about 75% true, 15% truish, and
10% stuff I thought was funny at the time. It’s the Irish in me. I was raised
to never let the truth get in the way of a good story. However that makes
writing about real people who know me and actually read this kind of awkward
because they can be very public about how much I am lying.
Otherwise
everything is pretty straightforward. I’ll write what is on my mind, try to
track my progress in the Sincerity Project regularly and anyone reading this is
free to comment on any posts as long as they can prove that they are not a
robot. There are hundreds of old entries archived and one day, if I can ever
find a twenty ninth hour in the day and an editor, I hope to collect the best
entries and make it available as a Kindle download. On Sunday nights I’ll post
the Best of 120 Minutes video of the week (alternative nation at its finest)
and I will continue the Wednesday Night Music Club (video of whomever has
caught my attention that week.) I’ll try to keep to my old Sunday to Thursday
schedule because I hope you have better things to do on the weekend than to
read my blog and I certainly would like to have something better to do than
write it.
As
always, thanks to everyone who has ever read or commented here over the years.
I am sincerely going to try to get back in the habit of writing and just knowing
that someone will occasionally come across these words and leave a comment
makes it extremely worthwhile.
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