creature of unhabit

 IT'S SAID WE are creatures of habit. I'm a creature of unhabit.

I have been neglecting this blog. I don't know why. I really don't have much to say anymore. I'm just a former newspaper and music store guy who picks up labs for a living. I've had a lot of adventures. If asked, I'll tell you all about them. But I'm not a Web Warrior who thinks he's better than anybody else.

So ... I've been quiet.

When I wrote columns and stories for The Whig, I cared about what people would think. The better the subject the better the product, but .... reaction was motivation.

Now? It's live and let live. Unless you are an idiot. 

I gotta get back to the habit of writing, if only to please a few people. Or not please them. 

This past weekend, I got out of the unhabit. Namely, I cleaned. What? 

I have three upstairs rooms. One serves as a spare bedroom. The other two are just .... rooms with stuff. 

My brother Steve and his son Riley are coming this summer for a visit. I'm going to need another bedroom. And another bed. Wait ... that's another blog idea.

See? Getting out of unhabits is starting to work.

I had a rare Saturday off - no guitar lessons, no gig that night. So I trudged upstairs and I cleaned out the big junk room.

I only hit my head on the ceiling fan twice. I only cursed breaking a bookcase once. Actually, five times. Getting out of unhabits can lead to bad habits. But I'll take it.

I threw away five or six big empty cardboard boxes. Actually, I took them to the recycle place. I filled two garbage bags with useless stuff. Hey! Another blog idea! What is useless, and what isn't?

In about two hours, the room was empty. I even (gasp) vacuumed. Please don't tell anybody.

I put everything in the smaller of the two junk rooms. It's stacked and organized. I won't be able to find anything. But it's ... there.

Later Saturday, I moved some music stuff upstairs to the empty room. It's going to be Riley's Room, but for now, it's Uncle Rotknee's Guitar Tone Chasing Lab. I'm having a ball.

I'm out of the habit of ignoring a project. And, believe it or not, I just bought an electric lawnmower and used it for the first time yesterday.

But that's another blog for another day. If I can get back in the habit.