The Trial, But Not Kafkaesque

Four days of sitting on rock hard benches in the swanky new Federal Courthouse on Boston's harborfront. Your tax dollars at work in a pleasing, esthetic way. Great view, good cafeteria, fast elevators, an easy walk from South Station. I don't even remember when I last dressed up four days in a row, as in tailored jacket. Not that this is a great hardship.

Should have been a lawyer. That is one of the week's epiphanies. Water way the hell over the dam and the rapids and through the sluice gates and the weirs, but self-discovery is always a shock. I find that even at my advanced (ha ha) age, I can remember the most minute details. Keep having to stifle myself from rushing up and giving counsel, defendants, even plaintiffs advice. Who woulda thunk. Gee whiz, Grapeshot could have been writing legal thrillers.

As Don McClean noted, isn't LIFE THE PERFECT THING TO PASS THE TIME AWAY?
Two key things have come out of all the hours spent.
1) I got a terrific 2 line description for a characters
2) The decision to dive into my half-begun memoir "Twenty-five Years in Information Systems." I started writing it over a year ago for Gather web-site and wrote a few posts. Seemed well-received, then I got busy doing other stuff, like finishing Festival Madness, and dropped it. Went back and read the segments and they pretty much sucked. Thought, "you an do better than that." From time to time I thought of it, and now with this postscript finale to my career, such as it was, I think I can do a bang-up job, maybe even a slim volume to tempt a non-fiction publishers. Cause I got tales to tell. No names or companies. Have to make some up. No problemo.

So: right now, I still have to finish the second pass thru Festival Madness, and continue pushing World of Mirrors, although an agent has the MS and someone else is nibbling.
It's always good to have a plan. The California book, now tentatively titled Such Stuff As Dreams, can lie fallow in my head, as the Wisconsin book, Promiscuous Mode, did.

I am confident enough in Promiscuous Mode that if I find agent/publisher they will take on that book, too. Because it's fun. Zany. Interesting. Even instructive. And I really want to do a book signing in Minnocqua, WI. So there.

Miles to go.

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