Das Hier Black #5

"Gasp!" I said, shocked by the flippantly bawdy words that the young pencil had just said to me. when I told him it was time that he ran along home, because it was getting dark and he was too young to be out by himself as darkness fell. Clearly, he disagreed, because if he had, I wouldn't be stunned by what he said.

I'd have been thinking that he was just a fresh young pencil that I would smile about a few days from now because my memory of him would have softened. 

But there was no softening after what he'd just said.

I haven't slept since yesterday and with it being a day of great celebration, though for more the fans of the winning team, I should really go to bed and sleep for a few hours before I am up and about for a bit, writing of course, before I bo out and watch the big game, which I am almost certain sure to watch at one of the fine local establishments.

Either one of the ones I don't frequent, or one of the ones that I go to regularly.

I'm inclined to go to the one that I don't currently frequent, but I might go to one of the two that  I do.

Regardless, I am going to go with my writing because while I could just go with the aim to watch the newest of the four professional championships, as the Stanley Cup has been celebrated since 1893, the World Series since 1903, The NBA Championship since 1947 and the Super Bowl since 1967, it wouldn't be as fun.

Or productive.

And today is going to shockingly unproductive as I fear that this will be the first day that...

Oh, it's already happened?

Never mind.

I forgot that Sutheran has already struggled on a couple of a days, which is surpprising to me, since he was so strong for most of January as he was fit to lead as we still sailed on without the help of Franklin's good, but troubling efforts as it's troubling that we should need to be led by straight up journalling.

That's just weak. 

Though not as weak as the output that Sutheran suffered to produce on the 29th where he only wrote 723 words the whole day, whiich is only bad because we have vowed to better what the good Petrie did in 2019.

Mind you, 723 words was still  better than his least of the day, we are a collective and should be able to beat his record with ease and right now, we are failing to keep pace.

Just like him at this time a year ago as he only found the Millionist's path in May.

We've been on it since the beginning as we collectively wrote 76,768 words in the first month, which is only 7232 words off of where we needed to be for the "easiest" path to a "Millioncy" of our own.

Today is not going to help us in that regard.

But it's only the 33rd day of the decayear and we have an extra one because it's a leap decayear and that one day is going to be the one that saves us.

Of that I am sure today.

But for now, I am going to go to bed and grab a few hours of sleep.

And hope that I am refreshed and able to storm back for us thanks to this sleep.

Be well.

The biggest game of the NFL season is two hours away and I don't know if I'm going to stay in and watch it or go out and watch it.

All I know is that I am going to watch it as it's going to be a good one!

Or should be as the last one should have been good and it was a dog of game if you like some scoring.

Obviously there was a score, but not much in the way of scoring.

To this point, I have not written much at all today and I know that if I go out to watch the game, I am not going to write near as much if I stay in because I'll not be able to write like a beast with people being there that I expect to know and be wanting to talk with.

And we need the words because we are all falling down on the job.

As it were, because this is not our job. This is just a mission that we vowed to undertake and right now, we are failing at it, even though we wrote well in January, we fell behind and haven't gotten off to the start this month that we would have liked to.

Yes, it's only the second day, but the first two days of the month are on a weekend, which are days that we should be able to write more words than we have written so far.

Oh bother indeed.

As it stands now, even if I write a thousand words in the 4th, I'm going to fall short of reaching the camp at the base of the mountain that we all agreed to climb to this decayear.

That's reason enough for me to stay in so that I can write more than a thousand words and at least reach the camp at the base of our mountain and not feel like a total failure because if I leave to go watch the game, I will leave with less than a thousand words under my belt.

That's not good at all. 

D'oh!

I'm closer than I thought I was and I should use that fact to propel me to the thousand words so that at least we keep the falling under a thousand words to one day, which is on Sutheran of course.

If I say anything more about that, I'll come off as an alienist and I am not an alienist. He's also been kind in how he's viewed my inability to write more than once d week this decayear.

So we're good and I only poke fun at him because he's been killing it and leads the way with his actions, which means he should still be leading our collective despite his stumble in the last days of January.

Partial victory achieved as I've done the first good thing of the day and gotten us past a thousand words, allowing Sutheran to have the stage to himself as the owner of the only day of this new decayear where we wrote fewer than a thousand words.

As I said though, this is just me taking the piss out of him in what I hope is seen as a playful manner because he is killing it and I could only hope to write as much as him.

I just want that to be clear.

So I can leave without feeling that I've let us down completely. Though I did waste some time after I woke up that I could have spent writing.

I didn't and if I had, I'd surely be looking at getting us to 1000 words this quarter instead of 700 and 300 words makes a big difference.

But am I going to leave?

I'm of two minds on that and even if I do leave, where am I going to go because there's three places that I would be happy watching the game at.

Of course, only one of them has the Nan Pizza that I liike and only get infrequently because it is not price friendly enough for me to get on a regular basis, even though I would be happy eating it on a regular basis.

What to do, what do?

Other than stop writing because if I don't decide now, I am going to stay in and I'll probably come to regret that.

Be blessed eh because I am out.

Charles Petrie

Date
02-02-20

Time

05:55-05:59=04, 07:46-09:36=110, Untimed

Word Count

103+479+738=1320