Tuesday, March 183rd

I'm finding that listening to the sound effects of a busy cafe while I try to write is really not working that well for me. Although I must say it is better for writing than actually sitting in a coffee shop, which I've tried to no avail. Anyway it just seems like the covid-19 social distancing shut-down culture is causing me to slowly but surely go nuts.
I should be working on one of my two books. Yeah, two. Why not? It's like working on your "second million" after giving up on the first million. So, the phone company book is deceptively difficult to write because I think it's important, when it actually is not. So, then, placed in its proper perspective, that it's not important, it turns out it's just kind of boring. At any rate I can't muster the enthusiasm required to transmit any kind of interest, either within me or any imaginary audience.
Back to The Busy Bee Cafe. Too grandiose a theme, really, what I have in my head. I should narrow it down.
Just had an idea, a thought, as it were. You thought you smelled something burning. Why not accept the premise of the Busy Bee Cafe and the Alternate Reality Generator (the "ARG") which activates itself at random intervals to change the local reality (phrase supplied by Don, who is more technically oriented,) forcing the customers and staff of the Busy Bee to cope, in some fashion, all the while being pursued by sinister men in black suits whose numbers slowly but ineffectively diminish one at a time as they encounter the red haired, gun-toting waitress, Denise, who has a crush on Laslo, the one character who consistently sees the changing realityscape for what it is. Why not accept that premise as background, and tell the stories, one at a time?
It's a bit like miscwritingville, if you remember that. I loved that.
And now there seems to be a break in the weather during which we plan to drive to the city and pick up a clock that has been repaired, and then try to find a place to eat lunch. It's always drive-thru. We are still a long way from normal around here, not even counting Trump's evolving dismemberment of Democracy-as-we-know-it, which is veering farther and farther from normal by the day.
Later.