Haunting dawn

Nights stream together with effortless stealth.  I am awake and wandering down just after dawn to watch the clouds roll in with the sunrise.  The beams stream into the ocean and the rains behind soon cover the day.

Time is flowing so quickly.  As if the past decades were merely a blink I find myself recalling the names of childhood friends and foes.  My writing is pushed aside to make money to simply make ends meet.  I push away that thought and focus on feeding my muse.  If nothing else the pictures speak to my soul.

Vacation day

First of my two vacation days I spent walking down to ocean before the rains returned - which they did.  I did some laundry and cleaning.  Put away things I had been meaning to 'get to' and built one of those cheap bookshelves that naturally had spare parts and holes drilled in the wrong spot.  Since I cover all the shelves immediately after building the thing I didn't care. 

Now sipping a Mondovi Chardonnay and getting ready to write for a bit.  Hope you all have had a wonderful day.

Madness I say...with picture

The framing of the end of another crazy day.

Thursday only a day away (does NOT sing it like a small red headed urchin)

Madness I say

So I went to drop a picture into this post and nope the functionality of that seems to be gone.

Sigh.

I have been polishing bits and pieces and sending to Sand at Piker Press but I am taking Thursday and Friday off this week and hopefully will get to slay some of my nightmares.  I need to.

I'll try to add picture later. 

Sigh.

Scary

So I just walked into the kitchen on our floor at work to find a styrofoam box on top of a toaster oven.  Helloooooo OVEN.....nobody there.  I carefully removed the melting box and put in the sink stunned at the stupidity.  No clue who nearly caused a fire but wow.

Enough said.

It was here somewhere

Yes it was....2012...then poof it was gone.

I don't talk much about work because it is unbelievable at times.  As you know my director passed away in July the weekend I was in California...so it wasn't my fault!  But seriously. The upheaval that resulted went from bad to truly bad.  After going through a few new employees that screwed up whenever possible the company finally hired a new set of supposedly good working folks.  Naturally right before the annual reviews - it froze the process for the whole division.  So here it is nearly half way through January and I personally haven't been reviewed much less given the position I was promised back in October - not fun.  But then neither have any of the other twenty or thirty people working in my area.

Add in that from the week of Thanksgiving on anywhere from one to three people in my team have been on vacation or sick and I tended to get the fun roll of 'helping'.  The past two weeks my lead was out on vacation creating even more stress.  Fun fun....so there were disasters after disasters that I had the joy of unraveling and assisting in the mopping up of the carnage.  The upshot of all this was I have been way behind in my own writing and reading schedule.  Grrrr...but at least I get a few snapshots in now and then. 

Happy New Year to all my friends and family.

2013...Looks like we made it

The setting sunset last night on 2012.  The night was filled with well lubricated humans tripping down the street.  I was naturally firmly ensconced inside the house on my couch watching the fireworks fill the sky from dusk til well after midnight.  No gunshots from what I heard this year.  I didn't get a chance to wander to the beach today like I'd intended to get a snap or three of the ocean but I still had fun.

2012 was a fast-paced hectic year.  Many people joked about the Mayan doomsday clock and I am pretty sure a few were really waiting for the world to explode.  In some ways it did.  Small slices at the fabric of our society that concern me.  But there is nothing I can change other than being the best I can and hoping others will do the same.  The only way the world will change off the seemingly self-destructive pathway is for folks to to begin to share love and kindness.  Stop the harm at a personal level basically.

Oh, and I know I have probably only a half dozen folks reading my site but every little bit...helps.

I am trying to keep on that pathway of being an understanding human being for 2013 and as of today it was good.  I met up with some friends that had been out of my world for a few months and had a great meal and laughed ever so much.  Laughter is truly a gift.  I wish you all the best in 2013.