Who remembers this from when we were kids? It always seemed to happen during after-school cartoons. You'd be sitting there with your cookies and Tang or your cheese sandwich and Quik, innocently watching Bugs and Daffy or Tom and Jerry beat the crap out of one another and presto: some stupid transmission issue would result in what seemed like HOURS of psychedelic color bars accompanied by "Theme from 'A Summer Place'" with a completely sincere voice intoning the magic words. And all you'd want was to get back to the action. Given that we had, maybe four other channels to choose from, rarely did I ever change it. This was, of course, when you had to change the channel by getting up off your dead ass and turning a dial ATTACHED TO THE SET. So here were the choices: good cartoons on 5, live action drug-induced insanity (Magic Garden, Joya's Fun School, Banana Splits) on 11, endless BOR-ing episodes of Little Rascals on 9, and sanctimonious 70s touchy feely happy programming on 13. Anyway, right about now I'd give just about anything to be six and sitting in front of the TV. The technical difficulties are as such: I'm STILL sick (week four) so I'm not sleeping a whole lot, I wake up at least 4 or 5 times a night, usually in a cold sweat out of a nightmare (yeah, Nazis this week!) My family is experiencing some fallout from the downturn (Mom's hours cut, brother in law's company shutting down in March, etc) so there's some worry there. And the general tension of the holidays is, well, what it is.
So I have not been blogging a whole lot. I have, however, considered composing a mock-Italian opera based on the recent reunion debacle. But it is hardly a story worth the telling. I just hope it's over by now.
At the end of the month I am planning on taking some time off to work on the 2nd book, although a recent whisper in my ear has encouraged me to do a different book first - a conversion/outreach book - but I don't know if I have the energy right now. Or if the publishing industry has a need. Something to explore, perhaps.
Thus, if I'm not around/online/posting for the next couple of weeks, I wish you all a happy holiday. Please stand by.
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