January 22, 2010:
"AH, SWEET MYSTERY OF LIFE"
 
Well, dear readers, this week has flown by, like a gazelle French-kissing a zebu. Just last week the zebu was Armenian-kissing a French hen. Go know. Do you know what I just realized? Know spelled backwards is wonk. Armed with that information, I can now write the notes. It was another day of heavy rain for the City of Studio. We have not had rain like this in a ‘coon’s age. I slept way too late because I could, if left to my own devices, sleep all day when it’s raining. But I willed myself to arise and arise I did. Once arisen I was arosen and once I was a arosen I wondered why I wasn’t aschwartz or agreenberg. Ah, sweet mystery of life, these are the questions that permeate and roam the windmills of my mind. In any case, I smoothed out what I’d written the day before, doing a few additions, moving some things around, and futzing with this and that and also that and this. Then I wrote about ten new pages. By the time I finished said ten pages it was about two-thirty and the rain had mercifully abated and I took that opportunity to go to Hugo’s for a spot of lunch. I was there for an hour and by the time I finished, the sky was as gray as could be. I drove to the mail place where there was only one package for me, I got some cookies from Subway, and I got home just before the new onslaught of rain. Then I wrote three more pages and then I finally sat on my couch like so much fish.
Yesterday, I watched a motion picture on Blu and Ray entitled The Red Balloon. Since I just wrote about the DVD release last year, I shan’t go on about it, other than to say it’s one of my favorite films and one I never tire of. This Blu-Ray comes from the U of K and also, like the Criterion DVD, includes Albert Lamorisse’s earlier short film White Mane. This Blu-Ray includes an hour-long film with the star of The Red Balloon, Pascal Lamorisse, who basically talks about his father and his father’s films to his daughter. It’s a very sweet film, and they visit several of the Balloon locations, which basically haven’t changed. I recall being mostly pleased with the Criterion DVD – this Blu-Ray is sharper and the color is more vibrant, but it suffers from that weird sort of digital grain that I don’t care for. White Mane suffers less, but still Red Balloon is great to have on Blu-Ray and this will do until someone does it better.
After the movie, I wrote more pages – I think I did seventeen in total, and I was exhausted. I took a hot shower, then put on some music and relaxed. It occurs to me that these here notes have taken on a certain sameness during the writing of the new book, but I’m afraid there’s nothing to be done about it until I finish the book. I’m just so written out by the time I get to the notes, that all I want to do is get them done. I enjoy doing them, but my brain is not firing on all cylinders after seventeen pages. If this were a Hofstetter mystery, I would actually be finished writing it today, which means I would have written a book in three weeks. But, this book will probably be close to twice the length of a Hofstetter mystery so I’ve got at least another three to four weeks, if I keep up the pace. Since I’m having so much fun doing it, I don’t mind the pace.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I must get my beauty sleep as tomorrow is going to be a really busy day.
Ah, sweet mystery of life, today is going to be a day. I have to get up early and CDs should be here by nine-thirty as will Mr. Cason Murphy. We’ll then get them all packaged and shipped out. I am out of the UPS forms, so we’ll have to go get those and then get them filled out. In fact, if I get up early enough, I may run over to the UPS Store before the CDs get here, or I may let Cason package while I go get the slips and then fill them out. Normally I would have done it yesterday, but I kept forgetting to get the damn slips. I’m sure that will all take until one at least, as I want to get the bigger boxes out, too, save for the Internationals, which I’ll take over there tomorrow morning. Whenever we finish, I’ll then write – since I’ve written ten pages more than even the ten pages I’ve been doing, I’m quite ahead and even if I only write five or six it will be fine. I say that, but the fact is I don’t seem to be able to stop at five or six – we shall see.
Tomorrow, I’ll finish shipping the overseas packages, and then I’ll write. I think I’ll be having dinner with a friend in the early evening, that is if the friend calls and makes the arrangements. I simply haven’t been calling anyone to arrange anything. If people want to visit they have to do the calling – that’s just for now, and I’ll be back to my old ways when the book is done.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, package CDs, ship CDs, and then write, and, at some point, eat. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Friday – what is currently in your CD player and your DVD/video player? I’ll start – CD, the humungous Rozsa box. Blu-Ray, Breaker Morant and Time Bandits. DVD, A View From The Bridge. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I say a fond ah, sweet mystery of life at last I’ve found thee and hit the road to dreamland.
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