OK, let's just take this thing one item at a time.
The Hellhounds, the Phnom Penh based BLUES band that I play guitar with, has a new blog and its pretty cool in a fun and goofy kind of way. I'll tell you this much, I spent a hell of a lot more time building the blog this past week than I did playing guitar or taking and working on making great photographs and that kind of sucks. Long story I won't share with you about things that have been distracting me and troubles that I needed to take my mind off of by throwing myself headlong into building a stupid website.
However, it did do the trick as far as taking my mind off other more important things, and now it is finished and I can stand back and enjoy the fruits of my labor as well as the fact that the project is done and came in under budget and far above expectations. How often does that happen?
That's a generally good policy to stick with and I thinik it bodes well for the future, both near-term and long-term. What about the mid-term?
There is no mid-term… that's a complete fabrication that people continue to delude themselves with. There is only now and later. anything halfway between the two is just a spot in time that will quickly pass from present to past.
So I'm going to turn that around thisweek (the short-term) and spend more time playing guitar, shooting and processing photos and less time pushing pixels around and beating pesky and belligerant html and PHP into submission.
Next item please…
You know, you just have to compartmentalize to deal with it all intelligently. If you don't sort of wall yourself off from certain looming imperatives then its almost impossible to deal with the other pesky bits of this business of life. Its just like piles of papers on your desk… if you wait long enough a bunch of them will become irrelevant and can be tossed satisfyingly into the rubbish bin.
What remains still has to be dealt wth, but at least al ot of the other annoying and distracting items vying for your limited attention have by now gone stale or otherwise lost their red-hot glow of urgency and irritation.
I just always find that it helps alot to be "in-the-moment",as they say, rather than straddling seven moments at once.
So first I did the blog for The Hellhounds and now I'm in the middle of doing my new mythicaldude blog… and some other stuff too.
Always in-transit…
