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1 July 2021

 Song mood: Under Pressure by David Bowie.

I’m going to a museum tomorrow. I’m going to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. I booked a room at the Motel 6 in Overland Park. The problem with Kansas City is that it is all spread out. The museum is twenty minutes away from the motel.

My first stop in Kansas City is to go to Oddly Correct Coffee for the best coffee in the world, which is 25 minutes away from the motel. The coffee shop is on the way to wherever I plan to go. I think for supper, I will look for restaurants in the area. All the cool BBQ restaurants are on the other side of town. So it will be a challenge to find something in the area.

It will be something to do. I come back on Saturday. I think I may look up other museums I may go to on Saturday. Who knows. 

A short trip to take pictures of art. So that I can write poems about art. It will be fun just get away for a day. Motel writing is fun. Here’s where I need to play the what if game.  At the restaurants, walking by the motel, walking at the mall.


I didn’t do leg weights today. Felt a pain in my knees and decided, it wasn’t a good idea. I’m a bit frustrated that with all the exercising I have been doing the last few weeks, and I can’t seem to get under 196 lbs.


Tonight, I will do some reading. My goal is to write 100 words in whatever project. I will look into audiobooks. I haven’t listened to a history book in a while. But I found that The Black Lizard Bigi Book of Pulps is on Audible and that is composed of 47 short stories and is 73 hours long. Stories I can use to inspire Inspector Trevor stories.


I plan to write the rough draft of an Inspector Trevor novella before the end of the month. It will be a bit cloak and dagger with spies, but ultimately, Inspector Trevor must do what he’s good at, solving the mystery.

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