This Is A Criminal Post

I’ve just sat down on the couch at the coffee shop.

It’s extremely hot out. And humid. Yesterday it was so humid that it was hurting my head. I was sitting outside, at this very same coffee shop, working from a small metal table, and generally enjoying being outside. Except for the fact that it was so humid that my head felt like it was swelling.

I wasn’t even overheating. It has to be really hot for me to overheat, and I have to be thirsty too. But it can get so hot that I feel like I’m wilting. That was happening to me at the Alamo. I was just wilting. I couldn’t keep going. I couldn’t be in the sun.

Yesterday it wasn’t that bad with the heat. But the humidity PLUS the heat, it was doing me in. I couldn’t concentrate. My head felt like it was swelling.

When you are really overheating and sweltering, walking into a cool, air conditioned room is like a dream. It’s a wonderful thing. That’s how I felt just now getting off the phone and going inside of the coffee shop. I was ready to come in here.

Now feeling great, drinking a green iced tea and sitting on the couch. What a wonderful life.

I am trying to do shorter, more consistent posts. It’s an experiment. And it’s just what you’re supposed to do, when you have a blog. I also don’t want to overwhelm everyone all the time, including myself, with “mega-posts”. That’s what I have been calling my beastly writings that take twenty or thirty minutes to read, that are thousands of words long. And you know what’s funny?

Yesterday, when I was thinking about how long a post could/should be, for regular posting, Chat GPT told me to shoot for 500 words in a post. That I could even set a cap, and just stop myself from writing at 500 words. So I thought, let me look at the post I just typed up, which I felt like was still too short. I had actually just finished adding more to that post, the post I had just posted yesterday, about my writing update. That was 1900 words, and Chat GPT said that a “mega-post” was 1000-2000 words. And I still thought that was a short post! Not long enough!

Chat GPT and I have a different definition of “mega-post”. But the point was that, I can get away with writing posts that are much shorter. That are so short that they feel criminal. It really does feel that way.

For example, already I can sense that we are almost at 500 words. Right now, here is the word count: 453 words. That means I only have 47 left! And look at how short this is!

It’s criminally short. This is a criminal post.

Now 478 words.

And this took me all of 5 minutes to write.

But I guess you will read the entire post.