Well, here it is Monday all over again and I don’t have a thing to blog about.

I could probably tell you about how my right shoulder has been killing me for the past couple of weeks, but that would be too whiny and I’ve never liked whiny posts. So I won’t mention how, when I try to raise my arm it feels like it’s being torn from the socket. I’d mention that I might need surgery to repair the rotator cuff, but nobody cares about that kind of stuff anymore.

Frankly I find it kind of boring myself.

I could probably mention the extreme heat and how we have had record high temperatures here in Tennessee for the past two days, but once again, nobody really cares about the weather.

I’ve found that people only talk about the weather when they run out of anything else to say and they’re just attempting to fill the silence with words. (Kind of like the way I’m doing right now).

Have you ever resorted to talking about the weather during polite conversation with someone whom you have nothing else in common?

I have. After a long uncomfortable silence, I’ll say something like, “how about this weather we’re having.” They’ll usually nod and say, “Hot. Really hot.” Then the silence continues and I’ll think, well, that was a good ten seconds. Then they’ll say, “How about them cyclones.” I’ll usually answer with something like, “I don’t follow sports very closely.”

On the other hand I could probably tell you about something really interesting that happened to me recently. Something that nearly blew my socks off.

However, nothing remotely resembling “interesting” much less “sock-blowing-off-ly” has happened to me in quite some time, so there goes that idea. It would have made for a great post though, if something like that had happened.

In the event that I should come up with a good idea for a blog post, I’ll certainly write about it. Meanwhile, I’ll stop talking and just wish everyone a great week ahead.

I’m glad that we still have around five months before our Christmas Newsletter will need to be written. Surely something interesting will happen before then.

Tags: cyclones, heat, shoulder pain