Well, dear readers, I had a telephonic call come in that I had to take and I took it and now look what’s happened. I’m starting to write these here notes four minutes before I’m supposed to post these here notes and what a revoltin’ development THAT is. I have no time to gather my thoughts nor do my thoughts have any time to gather me. Nooooo, I must write these here notes without giving them a moment’s thought, like THAT’S ever happened before in the history of these notes. So, let’s get with the program, let’s dive right in then let’s dive left in. Let’s cut to the damn chase because time if flying by, like a gazelle eating Circus Peanuts. Does anyone still eat Circus Peanuts. Why yes, they do, and I know this because I did a CVS run earlier in the evening and I bought some damn Circus Peanuts. I must say, however, that they don’t taste like they used to, they taste like flavored chalk. What the HELL am I talking about? I tried and tried and tried to find a motion picture to watch and I failed and failed and failed each time I tried and tried and tried. I have listened to no music whatsoever so what the HELL am I supposed to write about exactly? Well, thanks to my CVS Care Pass and various coupons, I saved twenty dollars on a forty-dollar order. I thought that was pretty nice. I had to get more Pepcid because I can no longer be out of Pepcid. I have a Pepcid on my back and I may need a Pepcid intervention. Pepcid is VERY expensive for reasons I don’t really understand. In any cast, here were are, these here notes should have been up give damn minutes ago, so let me continue apace.
Yesterday was a day. I was up at eight, took a quick shower, and she of the Evil Eye is now showing up at eight-thirty, a full half-hour before she’s supposed to show up. So, I beat a hasty retreat and then a hasty retreat beat me back. I headed over to Toluca Lake to breakfast with Robert Yacko. I got off at Pass Avenue and took the right lane to turn left, since both lanes can do so. I happened to look over to my left just in time to see an idiot girl texting on her phone and she promptly hit the car in front of her. We all got off the freeway and turned left, and they turned into the parking lot where I was parking for breakfast. So, I walked over to the girl who’d been hit and I told her that I saw it all and that the girl had been texting, looking down at her phone. She thanked me. Late, just before we got seated at the restaurant, she came over to me and asked if she could have my number, just in case the girl tried to pull some funny business and, of course, I said absolutely and I told her I’d be happy to make a statement or if it went to court to testify on her behalf.
Breakfast was good – I had a bacon and cheese omelet and hash browns. We were there until ten-thirty, then I stopped at the mail place and picked up nothing at all. Then I went into Von’s and looked around and asked how I could join the Von’s Club. They told me how to get the app. So, I got the app but it turns out I was already a member of Pavilions and that’s part of the Von’s family. I want to try a few things there and their prices, if you’re a club member, are very reasonably reasonable. After that, I came home just as she of the Evil Eye was leaving.
I immediately began to futz and finesse and that took quite a while, but I think everything came out pretty well. I wrote a couple of new pages, took a break, and then got on a roll and just kept writing the sequence I was in and ultimately I did fourteen pages, so that was pretty good. I’m sure they’ll need smoothing out, but I got quite far along in the sequence and another two pages should get me to the next sequence and then the next chapter, and when I finish that, I’ll be a little more than halfway through. Then I did the CVS run, then I made the horrible mistake of getting McDonald’s – a filet ‘o’ fish and a Big Mac. The fish was okay but seemed smaller than usual. The Big Mac was absolutely nauseating. I ate two-thirds of it and the rest went in the trash and I’m not eating McDonald’s anymore – it’s just too grossly gross. Bleccch.
Today, I’ll be up when I’m up, I’ll futz and finesse, then try to write eight to ten pages, I’ll eat, and then at some point I can watch, listen, and relax.
This week has a few meetings and meals, but mostly I want to keep writing. I will take a day off if I feel the need and I certainly don’t feel the need to do eighteen or twenty pages in a day as I sometimes do with other books.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up when I’m up, futz and finesse, try to write eight to ten new pages, eat, and then watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s free-for-all day, the day in which you dear readers get to make with the topics and we all get to post about them. So, let’s have loads of lovely topics and loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, disappointed that Circus Peanuts don’t taste like Circus Peanuts.