"You're all clear, Kid."

I am having a little difficulty ambulating this morning.  I don't think it's age or cold, humid weather.  I think it's kettlebells.  They don't get any easier, just heavier.  Like math in school.  Just about the time you get the hang of your multiplication tables, it gets harder.  A few years later you'd love just one day of math homework that was only multiplication.

And then there's calculus.

Lost in the pressure of the rising standard are the gains that have been made along the way.  We shouldn't go back, and we shouldn't stop -- to the dark side that path leads, hmmm.

But we can take a minute.  This is what you've been striving toward, isn't it?

What's new, Bluecat?

I'm not going to write about the weather.  I don't even want to think about the weather.  Or what it did to my morning commute to the railstation.  Instead, I will sit here, waiting for the next train, and drip all over everything while I write something inspiring.

If there is any doubt in your mind that you can accomplish what you set your mind to, dispel that doubt right now.  I'm going to use me as the example today so, naturally, your milage may vary, BUT (and notice it's a 'big' but) there's no reason you can't still get there.

One year ago, literally, I had never written a screenplay.  Yesterday morning I found out that I made the top 10% of the BlueCat competition for shorts with "Princess Rose."  That's the top 160 scripts out of 1602 entries.  BlueCat.  The competition that's in everybody's top 10 and most people's top 5.

I haven't won.  But seriously, do I need to (this year)?  Isn't beating 1442 other entries validation enough that even the impossible Hollywood dreams are possible?

Everybody comes from somewhere.

"I used to pick that as the worst movie ever made."

We had quite the collection people at our house last night/this morning.  Both #1 and #2 had people over.  But #1’s friends all drive so getting out of the driveway and down to the barn for chores and my weekly read of TCGTWF (see last week’s post) required a bit of maneuvering.

I’ve decided to change up the format of the Blog a bit.  I will be combining the Wednesday/Thursday posts into a single post about the film media – either TV or Movie.  I haven’t figured out what I’m going to call it yet so the schedule page hasn’t been changed.  That post will appear on Thursdays.  Maybe “Thursdays with Gene?”

On Wednesdays I will post excerpts from Washington Orville Hampton’s diary.  He was an extraordinary gentleman and I do not wish to keep his secrets secret any longer.  I hope you find them as educational, and entertaining, as I have.  Again, I have failed to come up with a clever name for series.

If you have any suggestions, or are curious to see if Washington commented on any particular topics or events, please drop a comment.  You’ll get kudos for a good name and I’ll be happy to peruse the journal to see if you topic of interest has been addressed.  (I assure you it has, as I’m making the whole thing up on the fly…)

The last change is one I have already implemented.  Posts (with the exception of fiction) will be limited to 300 words.  Plus cushion.  If I can’t say it in .3k, I’m either being unclear or trying to tackle too much at once.  Hopefully this will make the blog easier to follow and increase the time available for me to work on the bigger projects.  Making up words now just to land at three hundred.