Notes

• Thirty-four consecutive and mostly insanely hectic days at work tends to make the summer pass by in a flash. It was June just a few blinks of the eye ago and now suddenly it's somehow September. It just emphasizes how life is passing by too quickly. I have moments where I try and slow things down but they don't last for long.
• How nice it would be to naturally have a way with words. I generally feel like I have much to say but don't seem to be able to express those thoughts. 
• Downtown Salem is becoming an exciting destination. New concepts and approaches to lunch and dinner will do that for a place. Also staying open later into the evening. For most of my life, downtown has shut down at 6:00pm. Now though, more and more places are open for business well into the evening hours.
• Feeling a little down about notification of an upcoming increased financial responsibility but what the hell, you can't brood about that shit for too long. I still want to enjoy a few aspects of my daily life.
• As much as I'd like to return to the ways of my younger days where I would stay up most of the night ..... I just can't pull it off anymore. By 10:00pm I'm feeling the urgent need for sleep.