8:47 in office.  Have to submit time sheet.  Do I have a meeting today?  No.  Thanks EVERYTHING.  Thinking about going into the Field today, but then I remember gas and gas prices and what they are and no.  No Field today.  So then what am I doing for the next EIGHT hours here in the office.

Running and fitness friend Mannie send me a shot of his workout, tell him I will be getting out later and I will.  Thinking of 4 miles.  Want to do more short runs so at least I get out there and do something.  Just run… and 4 miles isn’t short for me anymore, shamefully with how I’ve lost pace and range and conditioning.  Trying to change that…

Stay at the desk, I tell myself.  Let the ideas find you.  For the AE story, and everything else…. Quick bathroom break and back.  Yesterday with the kids, going by so fast I feel like I failed in some way – second-guessing myself and replaying the drive out to Bodega, wondering if I did something wrong with it being as foggy and misty as it was and unable to take them to the actual beach …