Red Wine

I've been doing more writing lately than I normally do. Some of it, as I described earlier (below) is for something new I might get into doing, but a lot of it lately has been for speech and debate. I'm still in the process of trying to revise my old sets of notes. Make corrections for things like grammar and generally update them. I'm about half way done. I got a few of them done while I was on vacation in Kona in December, but there's still a bunch more to do. I've also been writing new notes as the new topics come out. I'm not sure how much time I'll have for this if/when I start working for Pacific LightNet which I hope happens fairly soon. I also came to the realization that I have four different blogs, three of which demand at least a little time. This one in particular is something I want to keep up with for myself.

The fuel that keeps the fire burning for most of these is (lately) wine. If I drink Bushmills I get lazy, but wine is the nice balance between inspiration and motivation that keeps the creativity flowing for the random thoughts and internet blog and keeps me in check enough to post coherent things here. I don't normally like dependency and I fear that's what this is becoming. I used to drink quite a bit when I was younger, not that I'm particularly aged now, but I cut back for a while. I don't drink a whole bunch now, but it's at least more than I used to. Writing the last set of debate notes (on use of eminent domain) I ended up going through a whole bottle of cabernet. Thankfully I still have a decent bottle of syrah for the rest of my editing. And yes, if it comes down to it, I have a few bottles of the hard stuff should I get writers block. Though it does make me wonder if inspiration comes from the liver and maybe I just need to give it a kick start and get it working before I can get some good stuff on paper.