At last. The best month is here!

We live about 2 hours from Phoenix. Our son plays all his sports in a league that’s all Phoenix schools except for us. This means lots of time on the road, living the sporting spectator life. Like other parents, we try to get to as many of the home and away games as we can. So, we burn up the gas and the miles year ’round.

In fact, we’re coming into the home stretch and I couldn’t be more blue; one more season of baseball and it will be over for my youngest son, at least at the high school level. Game day means filling the tank, checking the weather in Phoenix (usually by 10 – 20 degrees) warmer than where we live up here in the mountains), checking the work schedule to see if you need to rearrange any projects so as to get on the freeway in plenty of time to catch the game. Maybe you load up the laptop or some other paper work in case you have a chance to take care of a few things between innings or during halftime, or in my case, my knitting bag for that odd baby item I always seem to be working on.

I do a lot of my best thinking during that drive and wish I could find the perfect way to capture those thoughts. Whether related to a client’s business or my own, or a new challenge that one of my characters in the budding novel is facing, I have to say I often lose them because my microrecorder batteries are low or the tape is full or whatever. I’m considering a move to the iTalk recorder plugin for my iPod and would like to hear from anyone else who’s happy with that device.

One of my road-time “thinks” recently generated this question: How do you know when you have to quit procrastinating and just get your website updated? I’m going to develop a list of top ten reasons, with attributions.