Myself or not myself

I have had some difficulty writing here the last few months because I sense I am walking on a slippery path and am worried and worn down and tired of so many things – and afraid. But I’ve been keeping it in the back room, not wanting to alter the image of the Peanut Butter Cafe & Roadhouse. And, having written this wee bit, I find my thoughts not organized in any sort of path, but floating around at odds with themselves in a marsh. I can’t really see a bridge and I don’t know if I am up to slogging through. Oh, I know I can force myself a few steps forward, but I have no confidence I will keep going and not just sit down in the muck.

I just wrote a very telling paragraph about my character flaws – and, by God, I deleted it because, well, it was kind of ugly. I decided just knowing it was enough – to heck with seeing it staring me right in the face.

Well, crap, I’ve disgusted myself with my whining and that has at least given me enough motivation to slap myself and and consider getting a tall pair of boots to use in the muck, and maybe a shovel.

I could delete this whole thing but some things I have to know and so do you if you want to trust the peanut butter here.

 

Thanksgiving

I overheard someone speaking of Thanksgiving this year being right on the heels of December, and so this morning I checked. Yes, this year we have a late Thanksgiving, which means the merchants will have a late Black Friday. It occurs to me that there may be a lobby develop to change the law so that Thanksgiving is not the fourth Thursday in November, but so many Thursdays prior to Christmas.

I imagine retailers are busy trying to arrange to have pre-Black Friday sales without taking all the bang out of this newly sprung tradition.  I imagine, though, for the young, athletic set, it will remain a festive time of lining up in the cold, camping out, arranging football like pass plays of items to people stationed at cash registers and so forth. Actually, I can see people my age coordinating teams of “foot men” out in stores, texting in code, maybe hacking into surveillance cameras to monitor progress. Maybe you could have one person dress up as a BIG store security person who assists your team members.

I know . . . an action movie of Black Friday Shopping, not unlike The Italian Job.

Well, at least I have something to keep my mind busy today.