Page 4 January 2013 Don’t think too much, you’ll just end up with no space By Dale Messmer It’s been mentioned often in this space – it’s dif fi cult to write something one day that won’t be read until more than a week later. Such is the life of writing on a monthly deadline. It’s especially dif fi cult at this time of year, though. I haven’t wrapped packages. You’ve wrapped up the holidays. I haven’t even picked up my son at the airport yet – only three more days! – and your holidays are a memory. Unless you can’t remember New Year’s Eve, I guess. So what shall we write about? I can point out all the good stuff in this edition of the paper, as usual, but I’ll let you fi nd that out on your own this month. I thought maybe I’d write about how much I hate telephones, but if you’ve ever tried to call me you already know that, and if you haven’t, I fi gure you don’t care. Of course, writing about something you would care about takes a better writer than I, so forget that. Thought I’d write about music. I envy people who get to write about music for a living, and one of the best parts of deadline is selecting the music that I’ll listen to in order to survive the ordeal. Eric Clapton this month. Good jazz came in a close second. Thought about writing a few words on last year’s best emails from readers. Not the funniest or the most complimentary, but the best story ideas. Or maybe the nastiest, although thankfully I don’t get many of those. Thought about writing a little something to public-relations people who seem to think sending me a story idea 12 times is a good way to get it into the paper, but they wouldn’t listen anyway. They’d just keep calling me. Thought about New Year’s resolutions until I looked it up and realized I wrote about that last year. Still don’t make the things myself. Have you broken any of yours yet? Then there was the idea of writing about baseball. 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