Talk About an Ironic Day…
Go on, talk about it.
Okay, I’ll go first.
Today, I got a lot of work done… at work!
I’m serious!
On the weekends I get to work at around quarter past five. I set up everything for when I open and then I sit down for a coffee and a cigarette or two. Then, at six a.m., I open the store. It’s always very quiet for the first hour and a half to two hours, sometimes even a bit longer.
First off I make my way through all the paperwork that needs doing but that still leaves me with a whole lot of time before it gets any busier than a customer every twenty minutes or so.
Sometimes I use the time to do some cleaning around the store and sometimes I spend the time reading…
(If my boss is reading this - I swear these are all lies! ALL LIES!)

But today I decided to get some writing done. I keep all of my writing files synched to my treo 650, so I can write or make notes wherever I am.
I’ve been working on a short story for several months now, (not because I was working very hard on it but because I kept pushing it aside for other things but always kept it on top of my work list.) and yesterday I picked it up again and got a few hundred words done… see yesterday’s entry, I think I remember mentioning it.
But, anyway, At work this morning I picked up my Treo 650 and the words start flowing out of me and I tap out over a thousand words on that little keyboard.
Over a thousand!
So, I actually got a whole lot of work done at work.
Oh, the irony!
Then, once I was home, I had a bit of lunch. Then a nap. (hey, I was up at 3 a.m.!!) and then finally finished off the story. And gave myself a pat on the back. Good boy! Good boy!!
It’s called Out of Reach. It’s about a family heading out on holiday… in outer space!… and they run into trouble….
- insert suspenseful music here.
I’m really happy with the way it turned out but it’s kinda funny. Not ha ha funny but weird funny. I began writing this story because there was a scene in an old crappy short story that I wanted to keep, so I started writing this story to fit it in.
Then I didn’t write it in.
I know what you’re thinking - Osh me gosh! are these things probable?
Yes, Yes they are.
Bye now.
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