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Running On Empty I've felt dry these last couple days. What do you write about when there doesn't seem to be all that much to write about? 
I don't know how other people manage their lives, but I spend a fair
amount of my time running little short sketches through my mind. I talk
about getting good ideas in the bathtub. The bathtub is a nice place to
lie back and space out a bit and think about the things that bubble
to the surface. Sometimes a phrase will come from out of nowhere, some
juxtaposition of words that's kind of interesting and an entire journal
entry can be built around it. Just dress it up a little and push it out
on the stage. It doesn't even need a punch line, although sometimes in
the process of writing it, one occurs.
If I've got a clear idea of what I want to write, I start with
I forget which, but one of the journals I read recently talked about being tired all the time and having vivid dreams. Vivid dreams, waking up in the middle of the night to take a pee, being tired all the time even when you get a lot of sleep, snoring, gasping for breath in your sleep (not to mention high blood pressure) are all symptoms of sleep apnea. Nasty stuff, they tested me for it last year and discovered I had it way off the chart. Well, I'll tell the story later. I check in at 7:00PM and get out at 6:00AM, so that doesn't leave a lot of time for writing. |
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the narrative in the evening rather than the pictures. Tonight it was
pictures. Load a copy of yesterday's entry, save it under the new date,
do the normal housekeeping like change the links so this one, for
example, points to yesterday's entry when you click on "last entry"
at the bottom of the page, that the new banner photograph is loaded
(increment day of the month in the file name by one) and the file that
lists the entries on the journal menu has the new title and links.
There won't be a journal entry tomorrow. I have something called
a sleep test tomorrow night. They wire me up and put me in bed and see
how many times I stop breathing in any given hour. Sleep apnea, its called.
I've had one operation on my throat to correct this and now they are going
to run the sleep test to see if its done any good. You have the operation,
you wait three months and then they test you again. There's a long story
associated with this and I'll probably write about it over the weekend when
I have more time and have finally gotten a good night's sleep.