Digital Impulses

Of Time Disappearing

Today is Monday, December 22, 2008 at 1655. I am sitting at the Barnes and Noble in Manhattan Beach, once again wondering where the time is going. I last made an entry in this blog on 12/1/08 remarking on the accelerated passage of time this year.

BLINK.

Another 3 weeks have gone by and I have no idea how that happened. I seem to be caught in some amusement park-like thrill ride where great snatches of time just whiz by and you have no control over it.

I think what has led to increasing the infrequency of the posts around these parts is that back in September I bought myself a fancy black Moleskin journal and started handwriting all of my life events in it, just so I wouldn't forget anything.

All of this with the intention of eventually transcribing the entries over to this blog for easier search and retrieval of important events, dates, details, etc.

How did that work out for me? Yah. Not so much.

You see, for some strange reason, I record everything in that journal, but never get around to opening up TypePad and creating a blog post. Pretty soon, with the whole "time rushing by" syndrome described above, September, October, November and most of December have come and gone and I have made a grand total of 3 fucking blog posts since Halloween.

Nice.

Well, a co-worker once told me that the way to break out of a Writer's Block situation is to just sit down and write. Write just to write, to break out of the rut, somehow.

Hopefully, with this post, I am doing just that and I can get back into the swing of posting more regularly. One can hope always hope, right?

Sigh.

December already. Where did 2008 go?

The same thing always happens to me the 2nd half of any particular year:  It seems like I'm lighting fireworks on the Fourth of July and then Blink! I close my eyes and it's my birthday on 8/31. 

Blink! It's my birthday, August 31.
Blink! It's Halloween, October 31.
Blink! It's Thanksgiving Day, last Thursday in November.

Wow.  2008 is no different.  The 150 days between 7/4/08 and 12/1/08 just fucking DISAPPEARED.

Whatever.  I worked from Carson today and left work around 1230.  I stopped by Denny's (Rosecrans) for lunch and then went to pick up my nephew and his son at their house.  After that, I worked on finishing up my sister's PC for a while in the garage and then went inside for a little nap.

After my nap I had dinner and then went to Mom's house for a quick visit.  That was nice and stress-free.  David and his son ended up staying the night so as to be available tomorrow for some pre-Christmas preparation clean-up around the house.