Starting out the morning with a feeling that I should just call in and take a PTO day. But wait, retirement offers seven days of PTO every week so it doesn’t make sense does it? Let me put it this way, I need a vacation from vacation. I need to wake the hell up which means…coffee.

As a child

I remember being in fourth grade and having a full blown panic attack although back then (1966) nobody said anything about anxiety being a normal thing or that children had these things happen to them at all.

I’m glad dad was at work and couldn’t be reached as that generation didn’t believe in weakness being rational at all, at least not in the area I grew up in. Anyway, mom had to come back home from work as Carol, my older sis couldn’t stop me from flipping out. So mom get’s back home (not happy) and promptly drives me to school and takes me to class.

I am still freaking out with no clue as to why, I just know I’m scared shitless. My fourth grade teacher (Mrs. Flowers) that was really her name, was tough but fair and I had no reason to be scared of her so that wasn’t it.

The three of us stood in the hallway with the class door open and if you know how kids were (probably still are) it was hush hush in there while mom and Mrs. Flowers sternly informed me that this was nonsense and I needed to get in class and settle down. Which I did, panic attack over, teasing begins. Later that day my feelings of anxiety panned out as we had a surprise oral book report. Was it intuition? I have no clue, I was a child.

I couldn’t even tell you the resulting grade of that report, it was just a way to bring you to the main meat of this post. My grading of the progress on my book. I have it formatted with happiness and am ready to begin my final edit. Naa, wake the hell up son.

Does the learning curve change with age? I thought the book was looking pretty nice but as with anything I hope to do it right the first time, the first time meaning when it is ready for other to see.

I have learnt a lot while doing this and will learn much more before I am through. I came in this thinking easy breezy I already have everything wrote, just need to throw it in a book style and print. Funny huh?

So to end this ramble, I gave myself a B- for effort. I made the mistake of putting everything in capitol lettering so I could read it easier and now I have to go back and re-write every one as just highlighting them and changing from caps down doesn’t work. So the editing begins.

Have a great and happy Wednesday my friends,

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