Here I am, wanting to write something "creative" but am all out of creativity.  I am finding my self imposed task of maintaining a running, more or less constant, blog to be a big challenge.  I get all excited and write some things when something fires up my brain -- but most of the time it seems to be just more days sliding by - one after another.  As Shakespeare so aptly stated; "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day ... It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

My days are full of course, everyone's are - even if only full of sleeping, daydreaming or working.  All of the time is used up.  However, most of the time it seems like there is nothing much of interest or importance.  For example, today I got up at 5:30 am and sat outside under the stars in my hot tub - to think, relax and meditate.  Pretty boring for anyone except for myself.  Then after a small breakfast of melon I spent about five hours designing an air conditioning system for my house.  It was time spent filling in tables, calculating pressure drops, solving math equations, figuring out what kind of elbows and supply registers to use, which filters pads might work and other parts to use so that I can get the correct amount of air and heat (or cool) to each room throughout the year.  For me this is pretty engrossing, and keeps my attention - but it sure isn't much to talk about. 

In the afternoon we went to my grandson's 11th birthday party.  That was more "fun" - but still not much to talk about.  Hot outside, cool inside - but crowded.  He had a lot of friends over to play in their swimming pool, there were lots of good little finger foods, I got to talk to a bunch of my son's friends, and we just sort of drifted through the afternoon. It was a pleasant day, but with nothing much to speak of.

Along the way through the day there were a number of bumps, crunches and odds and ends of encounters with strangers and loved ones. Nothing very big, nothing that got to the point of needing a discussion (or maybe they did, but that can't be discussed here).  Then it was an evening reading "Home Power" magazine (a really neat magazine by the way), cooking some chicken on the BBQ - and that is about it. 

So here I am at the end of another day, wondering what - if anything - is worth writing about.  I could of course write about global events because there are always things going on in the world that demand our attention (wars, abductions, water shortages, global warming, atrocious acts by crazy people .... even some good news news such as people saving animals or animals saving people, or people helping each other  - etc, etc.) I don't like to talk about those topics on this blog unless they somehow personally intersect with my immediate focus or activities.  That doesn't in any way imply that they aren't critically important, it just isn't what I am trying to do here.  I am not trying to make a newspaper, it is more like I am working a semi-personal diary - one that can be shared with others and that might help me feel that I am doing something of value.

What value?  Where is the value?  I really have no clue about these questions.  I know I don't have anything "special" to say, and have no "special" insights into anything.  I am just me, with whatever comes with that.  However, I feel that we (all of us) may be missing something  and that something seems to be related to sharing what we know, what we think we know, what we don't know - and as Rumsfeld pointed out - what we don't know we don't know.  I am writing and sharing my thoughts in the off chance that they might line up with someone else's thoughts, or just maybe will help someone see an issue from a slightly different point of view.  Maybe what I have to say will just make someone furl their brow when wondering if there might be more than they believed.  I am not looking for anything big, or anything that will change the world.  I am just wondering if we might not all benefit from a little more open exchange of thoughts and opinions. 

Since I seem to think this is important, it seems like I need to do something about it.  This blog is part of my desire to move toward more open communication. 

So today, I have nothing particularly important to say.  Maybe most days will be like this, but maybe some days will bring something useful - maybe some days will help one or two of us see something a little differently.