365 Days of Jazz Hands - Day 17

THURSDAY, JANUARY 17th, 2013

Today's phrase is "work in progress."

As in my development as a hand jazzer is a work in progress.  Eventually the move will be a muscle reflex with no thought required at moment of deployment.  Muscle memory takes time.  One must not merely "do" Jazz Hands.  One must "be" Jazz Hands.  A work in progress indeed, as stated prior. Total Jazz Hands enlightenment is not a goal, but a journey.

Other aspects of this journey are also a work in progress.

I have lost the interest of an audience member.  Not necessarily a "valued" audience member...but an audience member nonetheless.  The necessity to lock Cat outdoors is no longer a requirement.  She goes about her business as if I'm not even present.  That's a cat for you.  On the positive side, I no longer feel the weight of her judgment cast down upon me with her staring, yellow eyes while carrying out my morning ritual (the Jazz Hands one).  On the negative side Cat seems to go out of her way to carry out her morning ritual simultaneously (the non-Jazz Hands one).  When I say the cat is "going about her business," well, I really mean it.  The bathroom seemed a fine location for the litter box at the time.  That decision is now in serious question.

Scrutiny does not stop with my has-been scrutinizing feline audience of one.

I have three five international blog views, two four from Germany and one from England.  There is no way of knowing if the views were by chance, if they read a single word, or if the blog counter software suffers from some sort of technical glitch that allocates views internationally by accident.  Until I get a comment from one of our foreign friends (you can find the comment field at the bottom of the blog, feel free to contribute), I will not know one way or the other.  Again...work in progress.

As for domestic viewership, it turns out these blog posts are not for the attention deficit types.  Some posts will be lengthier than others, I admit, and at times stray into various topics without notice.  I too suffer from a form of attention deficitness (I really do make the effort to interweave the threads as best as possible).

The actual application of my morning Jazz Hands could certainly use the refinement of a once per day, 365 day regimen...I practice my foundations today for approximately 10 seconds...that should suffice for now. I had to get out of the bathroom due to the cat's business.  Day seventeen's work in progress complete.