Tired and cranky...

Okay. I hate being sleep deprived.

And, I hate building servers when the appreciation flows like molasses in January at the South Pole when the molasses hasn't been warmed up, and is, in fact, frozen solid, breaking the container it was in, making a solid lump that fell on your foot, causing a hairline fracture of one of the bones that lays you up for a few months because of how hard it is to heal...

Ummm... yeah, tortured that metaphor until it confessed, didn't I?

I finally figured out my book's theme, and it's "healing the divide". I'm working on tone, trying to decide how to be more friendly/folksy. I want the book to seem like a dialogue, I suppose.

Oh, if you missed it, I'm trying to write a huge chunk of a book, ASAP, about real values, about what's been happening in the US, and about the painful places where politics has been leaking into the personal.

I'll try to send it to agents, and it'll be swiftly and roundly rejected, then I'll send it to publishers, and it will be excruciatingly slowly and roundly rejected.

But I'm going to try to use what skills and abilities I have to write a book that would have the possibility of healing the sharp divides in this nation, just so I don't have to look back and pretend I did nothing.

Herm. Did I mention to everyone that tiredness and depression go so hand-in-hand for me, so when I'm sleep deprived, I act depressed?

I *am* working on the book, and I *do* plan to try to get information out on it, and I *do* think that, if I write it the way I think I can, and if I can get it into the right hands, it could do some real good... but I'm not sure how to market it, or how to get any of my ideas into the 'ideas marketplace', and that sucks royally, because I'm sure some of my ideas could help make some changes, after they've been torn to shreds and used as mulch for some actualy good ideas...

I'm starting to get negative, aren't I?

I'd better go jogging; I need to wake up enough to finish my database server build.

Tired and cranky...

Okay. I hate being sleep deprived.

And, I hate building servers when the appreciation flows like molasses in January at the South Pole when the molasses hasn't been warmed up, and is, in fact, frozen solid, breaking the container it was in, making a solid lump that fell on your foot, causing a hairline fracture of one of the bones that lays you up for a few months because of how hard it is to heal...

Ummm... yeah, tortured that metaphor until it confessed, didn't I?

I finally figured out my book's theme, and it's "healing the divide". I'm working on tone, trying to decide how to be more friendly/folksy. I want the book to seem like a dialogue, I suppose.

Oh, if you missed it, I'm trying to write a huge chunk of a book, ASAP, about real values, about what's been happening in the US, and about the painful places where politics has been leaking into the personal.

I'll try to send it to agents, and it'll be swiftly and roundly rejected, then I'll send it to publishers, and it will be excruciatingly slowly and roundly rejected.

But I'm going to try to use what skills and abilities I have to write a book that would have the possibility of healing the sharp divides in this nation, just so I don't have to look back and pretend I did nothing.

Herm. Did I mention to everyone that tiredness and depression go so hand-in-hand for me, so when I'm sleep deprived, I act depressed?

I *am* working on the book, and I *do* plan to try to get information out on it, and I *do* think that, if I write it the way I think I can, and if I can get it into the right hands, it could do some real good... but I'm not sure how to market it, or how to get any of my ideas into the 'ideas marketplace', and that sucks royally, because I'm sure some of my ideas could help make some changes, after they've been torn to shreds and used as mulch for some actualy good ideas...

I'm starting to get negative, aren't I?

I'd better go jogging; I need to wake up enough to finish my database server build.