You Don't Know Jack

The After-Christmas Clean-Up

         Good morning, friends, and I hope it finds you well! What's with this title, you ask? Well, it has been a madhouse of activity and anticipation leading up to the Holiday. Oh, we're not unique in that? Yeah, I think we all understand each other. The shopping, wrapping, and decorating is in the wake, the anticipation subsided as the gifts were opened, and now we're all looking at piles of crumpled paper and cardboard that we somehow need to cram into our waste cans so we can all fit in our homes again. We've catalogued our swag, and I hope we all liked it ~ I know I did ~ and now it's time to start easing back toward our regular routine.
         I get to enjoy a few more days with my son before he heads back to Colorado, and then the clean-up starts in earnest with an even larger task looming after that. But a few more days of peace. I'll take them.
         But I'm going to do some clean-up on my port earlier than that, in fact, immediately. Look, I've been trying to return to form as an author, but I have created an assortment of distractions for myself that vie for my attention every time I log in. This blog is one of them, but it's a good place for me to "think out loud," and sound for opinions on some of my wilder ideas. But in the interim, I started two forums ~ fora? ~ that seemed like a good idea at the time. Well, one hasn't had a visit in 17 days, and the other had one enthusiastic visitor, then went to crickets thereafter.
         These are unnecessary distractions that I don't need to deal with, and are accordingly being closed forthwith. I'm going to mark them Private for right now to give myself time to consider my options, but I don't see myself starting up again. Both were experiments, and while it's too early to deem them outright failures, they are things I don't need to be spending mental effort on while I'm trying to return to form as an author.
         So there you have it. You don't need two forums to talk to me. I have an e-mail address, and anything you want to discuss may end up as a post here anyway. I love you guys, I don't want to shun anyone, but those experiments didn't pan out. Let's see if I can wow you with some literature instead!

 J