Let's go, Rangers!

Tonight is blog deadline, and nothing is coming together. I have many ideas but none are ready to go without some focused thought -- and that's not happening when game 5 of the 2-2 World Series has the Rangers and the Cardinals tied 2-2 with the Rangers batting in the bottom of the eighth. Let's go, Rangers! More to come later in the week. So many wonderful moments of life, only slightly mirrored by exciting ball games!  

Checking in on deadline

It's blog deadline again. I don't remember when it switched from Monday to Sunday, but I knew it would eventually become problematic if I didn't get something written on a weekday. Tonight, after a busy and fun Saturday-Sunday trip to see family in Texas, the Sunday deadline is problematic.

Sometimes I jot down blog notes during the week, but I didn't this time. I don't have anything ready to write, and I don't have time (it's 11:23 p.m., even though the blog time stamp will say it's much earlier) to just sit here and mess around until I come up with something, which is what I'm able to do sometimes when deadline sneaks up on me. It's not as if I don't have ideas. But it definitely takes time for me to make anything close to sense of those thoughts.

But I've seen the value of checking in and writing a few words. Sometimes something comes together that amazes me. That's not going to happen tonight. Checking in really is just checking in. It's really just making deadline. It's respecting the deadline. And it's not letting go of the hope/dream of something better to come.