Tar Babies

Today was turning out to be really productive -- several blog entries written, movie & dinner with the family, building shelves and getting the storage end of the basement organized, and even a little bit of video game time -- when I realized that I'd just lost half an hour to reading my own old blog posts.

I don't know how real writers do it: if I'm this enamored of my own blatherings, and you're enough better than me to get paid to do it, I don't know how you manage to anything else all day long....