LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- A man dressed as Chewbacca was arrested after police said the street performer head-butted a tour guide operator in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.

When wookies go wild...

But that's not important now. What is important is that I'm back to daily writings, whether those be postings here, on the new journal or elsewhere. I'm vaguely playing around with the idea of working on my pieces for "This Wallingford Life" and the proposed book of essays publicly, as in writing and editing in a place that is visible, with a versioning system via tags. I'm not sure why that's intriguing to me today, or why that channel seems to be more conducive to something as experimental as a revealed writing workshop approach. I've never, ever considered displaying a work in progress before, let alone providing a glass window through which to view the process.

At any rate, I'm going to sit with it and see what it wants and what's best for its development.

The recent and brilliant post by my buddy drshorn has me aching for essays of a more simple format and more personal nature, to begin that long-waiting project that lives in Glass, Bryson, Sedaris, Rackoff, and Vowell lands. Actually, his post had me very happy and impressed and then it had me really jealous. THEN it had me aching. The Shorn guy is a great writer, don't let him tell you otherwise.

But the overall idea is to create space. That's the big theme for me this year and probably the biggest shift and transformation of my approach to everything. Create the space. See what shows up. Work your energy to its utmost to make the space welcoming and ready and attractive and flexible. Things will grow in it organically, or they won't. But the creation of space is the key. The providing of experience is the workshop equivalent, but that won't come into play for some time yet.

I've created this space, and one in the new journal. The Blonde Swedes create their own space. So now it's up to me to figure out the spaces that my other projects would like to live in.

As you might be able to tell, I feel better. I slept for just over eight hours last night and woke up not interested in sleeping anymore. So I hopped on the computer and spent some time tweaking the new journal's look and feel, then cleaned and adjusted the living room... and as soon as I realized that I was still in my robe with the loose belt in front of very large bay windows.. I decided to give the neighbors a break and go shower and get dressed.

Nobody needs to see that.

So yes, I am now having the "Yeah, I'm just getting over a bad cold" feelings, bit achy and prone to sudden drops of energy and not too interested in much activity. But overall, I'm good, much, much better. I'm hoping that next week, being well, I can have a clearer and better perspective on things.

I also really, really want my MacBook... but patience is a something or whatever.