A Sure Cure for Insomnia...
It seems for the past several weeks that no matter how early I log onto the Internet, I always wind up falling asleep at the switch before I can even slog through my e-mail correspondence. That has meant no updates to the blog. It has not meant an end to creativity or to creative inspiration, however. I have simply been finding it organically rather than through high technology.
Tonight, for example, I went on an Artist date at Easton Mall. My friends' band Yumbambe was playing in the Sounds on the Town series tonight. I sat in on their first set, then went over to find Eric and say hello during the break.
As Yumbambe prepared to take the stage again, I wandered into my favorite shops around the square. Sampled some gourmet goodies at Williams-Sonoma, then returned to Barnes & Noble to head back toward my car. While weaving through the stacks inside, I came up against my first tempation.
That temptation came in the form of a table of titles on sale--buy two, get the third free. As luck would have it, I found three whose subjects appealed to me: Joseph Ellis' Band of Brothers, the companion book to NOVA's The Elegant Universe, and a work on The Gnostic Gospels.
Since my covert credit card is getting too hot to handle the overload, I had to put these and my later Archivers charges on the kitchen sink card. I had been doing so well with staying away from the plastic for a while. I guess I was due for a relapse. This is not the best time, though with all the medical bills I anticipate for the fractured wingtip and the kidney stone crushing.
There is one upside I've discovered to my spendthrift ways. It always seems to give me a burst of creative energy after I've spent a bit of money spoiling myself. Witness that it is now nearly 2 AM and I am still awake and plugging away at this blog entry.
After purchasing the books, I drove to Archivers for my original purpose--printing a selection of photos from my Da Vinci-cago photo CD. There were 82 images and 10 index prints I selected to represent the July 29-30 whirlwind road trip to Chicago.
Next time I visit Chi-town, I will spend more time...more money too.
It seems for the past several weeks that no matter how early I log onto the Internet, I always wind up falling asleep at the switch before I can even slog through my e-mail correspondence. That has meant no updates to the blog. It has not meant an end to creativity or to creative inspiration, however. I have simply been finding it organically rather than through high technology.
Tonight, for example, I went on an Artist date at Easton Mall. My friends' band Yumbambe was playing in the Sounds on the Town series tonight. I sat in on their first set, then went over to find Eric and say hello during the break.
As Yumbambe prepared to take the stage again, I wandered into my favorite shops around the square. Sampled some gourmet goodies at Williams-Sonoma, then returned to Barnes & Noble to head back toward my car. While weaving through the stacks inside, I came up against my first tempation.
That temptation came in the form of a table of titles on sale--buy two, get the third free. As luck would have it, I found three whose subjects appealed to me: Joseph Ellis' Band of Brothers, the companion book to NOVA's The Elegant Universe, and a work on The Gnostic Gospels.
Since my covert credit card is getting too hot to handle the overload, I had to put these and my later Archivers charges on the kitchen sink card. I had been doing so well with staying away from the plastic for a while. I guess I was due for a relapse. This is not the best time, though with all the medical bills I anticipate for the fractured wingtip and the kidney stone crushing.
There is one upside I've discovered to my spendthrift ways. It always seems to give me a burst of creative energy after I've spent a bit of money spoiling myself. Witness that it is now nearly 2 AM and I am still awake and plugging away at this blog entry.
After purchasing the books, I drove to Archivers for my original purpose--printing a selection of photos from my Da Vinci-cago photo CD. There were 82 images and 10 index prints I selected to represent the July 29-30 whirlwind road trip to Chicago.
Next time I visit Chi-town, I will spend more time...more money too.
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