Late Night Snack

I started out the evening with the intention of doing some book keeping then work on my book (ha ha!), but it dawned on me that I am nearly out of make-ahead meals so I think I will have to put off writing for the time being and cook up some chilli.  I hope the neighbours don't mind the smell so late in the evening.  Tough.

I am trying to be more financially conscious and one of the ways I've been doing that is by not eating out any more (with the occasional exception for close friends if I can afford it).  When I look at all the money I used to blow on eating and drinking, it makes me mad at myself.  I'm at a point in my life where I really (really) need to turn things around and brown-bagging it is one of those life style changes I've made.  Aside from a few good chilli recipes, I also found a great magazine that has recipes for dinners that have only 3 main ingredients.  Cheap, easy, and good for me.  What more can a bachelor ask for?

A couple million dollars wouldn't hurt...

Cross-Roads

It's been far too long since I've written anything, let alone anything worth keeping.  Even now as I write this entry I feel like a ham-fisted amateur.  A few words come out, but I strike them down with the Backspace key.  A few more words emerge and grow into a couple lines, but they reek of hackery and I mow them down as well.  I'm better than this, I tell myself, but a nagging doubt persists.  Am I?  Then why, after all these years, am I still a fly swarming a flickering bulb?  Tonight is the first night in months, probably almost a year, that I will try to write something meaningful, something worth building on.