Long Time Gone…

I haven’t blogged in a while (duh!)  It isn’t the only  thing I haven’t done in a while, either.  Not to say I haven’t been busy, because I have.  I just haven’t focused on the blog, reading people’s blogs, etc.  I joined Facebook though.  Although, I don’t see how people can spend hours and hours on it.  So not me.

On the writing front, I’ve been neglecting that aspect of my life.  Tsk tsk.   My son asked me why I wasn’t working on my WIPs.  My answer to him was because he won’t get off of my computer!  (True…)  But, that’s not really it.  I do have a laptop. 

I didn’t renew my membership with my local RWA chapter.  (sorry Rosebuds)  I have a couple of reasons.  Time being the top of the list.  Crappy excuse, but there it is.  I’m questioning.  I still have stories running through my mind constantly, so I know the creative spark is alive.  But, the dedicated time to work on it is my problem.  I don’t want to play at writing.  I want to actually sit down and do it.  I know I can’t write in five minute spurts like some do…I’m too easily distracted or want to edit what I did before, especially if I come back to it and start to reread to know where I was, etc. 

I’ve been working 9-10 hour days, add an hour plus commute (each way) on top and I have complete mental burn out by the time I get home.  I’ve used the writing of others to feed my passion for literary expression.  Tess Gerritson rocks, by-the-way.  I know others write and juggle a full time job, but I haven’t managed to make it work the way it should since I started a new position.  It has it’s good and bad points and I wouldn’t trade for my previous alternative to save my life right now.  (That job now sucks for all left doing it…which is what I thought would happen and why I changed jobs!)   I’m keeping my fingers crossed that the job stress will let up and allow me to focus again.  Here’s hoping!

Unbelievable Headlines

TWO NUCLEAR SUBS COLLIDE IN ATLANTIC…WHAT?  Let me read that again… Nope that’s what it said.  How can two, very large submerged objects that supposedly have sonar and radar and everything other tracking technology under the sun miss another large object right next to them and run into each other? 

It happened earlier this month between British and French NUCLEAR SUBMARINES.  Both carrying Weapons of Mass Destruction… Now, I realize the North Atlantic is a bit cold and the water a bit murky, but what the…?  I don’t care that they were going at “very low speed” and the damage was minimal.  What if they hadn’t been going slow or bumped into each other at different angles than they did?  Those suckers carry Titan NUCLEAR missiles for God’s sake. 

I picture a scenario where an accident, similar but with a different outcome, triggers something really awful… Like Russia thinking the crash and resulting explosion of armed missiles was a bit close to their territorial waters so they shoot their own nuclear missals – of course they do this before the British and French can say it was all a mistake and now it’s too late – WWIII.  Okay, I’m probably being a bit melodramatic, and I realize the British and French are not at war this century, but still.

Russia isn’t that stable these days… Come to think of it neither are the North Koreans, most of South America, and, let’s not forget, the Middle Eastern countries.  Wouldn’t take much to set any of them off.