The Song of the Century

Alas, it's only 8:35 a.m., but the mounting sadness that comes with the inevitability of Monday is wrapped around my back like a 200 pound gorilla. I usually don't start to feel this way until later on the evening, but today it has hit earlier. The one saving grace concerning the coming week is that it's a holiday week. I will be off on Friday in observance of July 4th. There's a break.

So, my life is relatively quiet these days. It's scorching outside, with temperatures regularly parking themselves at the 100 degree mark. It is so ridiculously hot that it's miserable. Just the walk to the car in the morning causes me to sweat through my button-up, resulting in salty, white stains. It's disgusting, and boy I can't wait for winter.

Sorry to sound be so depressing. It's just that these truly are the dog days of summer, and it's difficult to get excited about them anymore. There is hope, however. We are just months away from the kickoff of both college and professional football. That is the preoccupation that spawns dozens of daydreams throughout the week. They're games on at least four days a week, and the sports landscape is teeming with news of injuries, feuds and trades. And there's always fantasy football. I picked-up my fantasy football guide for the 2009 season last week, and I'm already studying for my 2009 campaign that hopefully results in a league championship.

This past week I finished 11 pages of the re-write. While that's not as much as I'd like to get done, it's still something. As long as I'm making progress everyday, as long as I continue the fight to get published, I'm doing something constructive. After my wife's Sunday Morning errands (I was told there would be none today), the rest of the day will be left to do whatever. Aside from typical house chores (clothes washing, possible lawn-mowing), I do plan to catch-up on a movie or two and get a couple of hours of writing done. Depending on what's finished today, there's a slight, and I do mean slight chance that this week I could complete the first re-write (It's really the second re-write, but I'm calling it the first).

And there is an excerpt coming. I don't know what it'll be, but I will be posting one soon. Keep a look out for it. Plus I'm trying to find someone to create a custom layout for my blog. Eventually I'll segway to Facebook and possibly Twitter, but for now the blog will be the main way I 'socially network.'

Until next time...