And more or less awake after a Very Interesting Night and Day…got home finally, showered, fell into bed and am now up (sort of) after a solid 5-6 hours of sleep.<\/p>\n
I will get to comments that need answering later–there’s business stuff that must be attended to first, and only 500 of the day’s required words were written (on the bus that replaced the train as a mode of transportation from San Antonio to Austin.\u00a0 And why do luxury buses–which this was–insist on putting their otherwise comfortable seats so close together that the ordinary person’s knees hit the back of the seat in front of them?\u00a0\u00a0 As bad as regional jets…but more comfortable seats, I’ll admit.<\/p>\n
The good news is that, as usual, I was able to pile on the words while awake on the train.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Especially productive were the alternating sections, where looking out the window into lovely forest (and thus a break to think and shake my hands out) alternated with less bucolic (sad small towns, faded and beat-up-looking)\u00a0 scenery and a reason to concentrate.<\/p>\n
The bad news for “life on a train, writing” is that I don’t get enough sleep, and at some point the loss of cognitive function from sleep deprivation\u00a0 overcomes the gain in concentrated attention.<\/p>\n
Weather was a factor, both in events at home while I was traveling, and on the last stretch of the train trip (canceled as a train trip due to the intersection of flash flooding and train tracks.)\u00a0 We were, in fact, in the hot seat for the flooding Hermine brought to Texas, but not in the hottest part of it and by the time I got home, the septic tank was cooperating again.\u00a0\u00a0 The ground was dry enough, and the deluge sudden enough, that there was more run-off than soak-in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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