Can't think

I can't think of anything to say and by God I'm gonna state that. You'd think there would be a plethora of things to write about, but sometimes you can sit down at the keyboard with the best of intentions and.... mental silence. Funny, I read a lot of Carlos Castaneda some years ago and the characters in those books talked about "stopping the world"; forcing your mind to complete and utter silence. These guys spent years perfecting their techniques and rituals in order to perform this one act. It took me five minutes and four of those minutes were my laptop booting. I guess that I'm a lousy writer, but a helluva Shaman. Hmm. Where are those peyote buttons....