Five to one...one in five

Greetings from mouse,

The title of this post is a line from the Doors song 5 to 1. Now, that song was about the Vietnam war. Specifically, about the death rate of the soldiers. This post isn't about that.

When we merged our blogs, it was interesting and we actually learned things about ourselves. We learned mouse posts most of what she writes. For everything he writes, most are never published. Or, rather 1081 posts were added, but little more than 200 are available for general reading. While it might not be really five to one or one in five, you certainly get the idea.

He's written some really great stuff too. He writings are about the lifestyle and life. Some are funny, while others are touched with poignancy. Some are riddled with typos, as tho he's waiting for his secretary to fix them.

They all start the same way, him at the keyboard, pecking away with his two fingers. He types fast, and hits the keyboard hard, in a way that mouse calls angry typing. He's likely not angry tho. It just sounds that way. His body hunched over like an old-time newspaper editor, ready to scream out. The drink beside him, is his only personal tell. He's a creature of habit and his beverage choices always reflect that.

Once mouse asked why he didn't publish something, he simply shrugged saying it was unfinished or unimportant. He dismisses some as just being too personal. Some he just loses the thought and they sit there, mid-sentence or even mid-word, and he just forgets them there. Some are great, like a piece he wrote once on what RACK should really mean, which he said was far too controversial. He wants to be careful, his opinions are often viewed as facts to him -- he often must remind himself they are at the end of the day merely opinion, a lesson mouse could have learned. Anyway, too few are posted. Sometimes mouse can dare him into publishing, which is always funny.

The truth is, he's as complicated as mouse is. Maybe everyone is. Maybe more people are like him and less like mouse?

Most of the time, mouse writes a post, hits publish and doesn't think much else about it...well until the comments roll in, but that's another topic for another time.