Writer's Block?

As some of you might have noticed I haven't been writing very frequently of late. I'm not sure why that is but I'm sure I can come up with excuses. Some of you may be glad not to receive a rant from me. Having posted 145 over the past several years I get a little concerned that I am repeating myself at times. If I do it is because I feel the subject is important to emphasize  again. Hopefully I have been consistent or, in the rare case that I may change my position on an issue,  I have sufficiently supported such a change. Frankly I can't remember that happening but maybe it did.

Work is the most obvious diversion from my writing so I will play that card. While the workload is significant the distractions are more so. It is an election year and I work in a county courthouse. I am privy to such juicy information and political futures ride on this election and what happens if so and so is defeated, etc. You get the picture. Being a long-time political junkie I eat this stuff up! But it is so time consuming! Since I spend the mornings at the courthouse and the afternoons at my private office I usually spend the afternoons getting the work for the county done that never got accomplished because of the phone calls, drop bys, political maneuvering, etc.

However, the most obvious impediment to my blogging is, without a doubt, Facebook. Yes, I am on Facebook way too many hours of the day. And with my new Nexus 7 tablet it is so much easier to piddle with it while purportedly watching TV, in bed, in the bathroom, you get the picture. I try to avoid it at work but it is so seductive! A notification will hit my smartphone that "Emily Crimmins posted -----" and, of course, I NEED to go see it because she is 8 months pregnant or has posted a cute picture of #1 grandson Dan, or one of her liberal postings that I could do without :) (take the good with the bad). Well that does it because then I see a posting to the local groups to which I belong and I read those and have to post my opinion that Lockhart could not live without. Then, of course, one of the OTHER Facebook geniuses tells me how full of crap I am and then it is game on! The next thing you know an hour has passed and nothing resembling work has occurred.

So yesterday I am talking to my boss about all of the projects I have on the table with my "part-time" county job and I have an epiphany. I need to quit screwing around! Here is a list of some of the things on the horizon for the next 6 months:

1. Two independent audits of the County books by two audit firms
2. Convert to a new accounting system
3. Complete the year end process. (FYE 9/30)
4. Assist on a major construction project
5. Prepare and shepherd legislation through the Texas Legislature ( making sausage the ugly way)
 Those are just before noon.

In my private business, such as it is I have tax season looming and continuing education courses to take in preparation for it.

Of course we have the holidays, a trip to NY for the new baby (YEA!!!) and at least a couple of nights where I get some sleep.

I could bore you with the details of each of these projects but you probably are already yawning so I won't.  

So drastic measures being in order Facebook is to be relegated to a home activity only. It has been removed from my phone, I will delete the bookmarks on both work computers today. Facebook will only be accessible from my tablet and home computer from this day forward. I expect to recoup about 1 or 2 hours a day from this. It adds up, trust me!

I know right now you are saying to yourself "how will the Facebook millions live without Larry's witty repartee throughout the day?" I'm sure that by 10 am this morning an APB will be put out on me and rumors will begin to circulate that the Sheriff made good on his threat to "put that damn auditor in jail". I know it will be tough on them not being shown the errors in their thinking by me but maybe someone will fill the breach. I know it is hard to believe but there are somethings more important than being the resident Facebook genius.

So the blog entries will probably be infrequent as well. I think I have said enough about the candidates in the national election, the sad state of our economy, the moral decay of our society, etc. For those one or two that may disagree with me (Emily) I still love you regardless of how misguided your thinking may be.

On the other side of April I will update you on the successes and we can all revel in them together.