By MONTE DUTTON

On Sunday morning, I got up, drove to a drive-through and bought the same thing as the week before. I can’t remember the restaurant. I just remember it had golden arches.

Usually, I get something that I like that is discounted. I never get anything expensive. I generally only buy the cheap stuff. I don’t like the expensive stuff. I’d rather have a cheeseburger from Steamers. I like to dine in, reading a book before and after the meal is served. The franchises make good road burgers that don’t fall apart while you’re driving with the cruise control on. Most times I go there, I’m running late.

At this local franchise, normally the video screen gives the “full” total, then reduces it. This time the screen stayed the same, and I paid twice as much as one week before. The lady at the first drive-through said it wasn’t on special anymore. After several years, it had stopped being special to me.

While waiting at the second – no, third – window, I noticed the gas across the street was $4.19 a gallon.

The billionaires don’t mind.

Part of the reason I was hungry when I awakened was that I dreamed about ways to turn my unpublished novel into a screenplay, which I don’t really know the mechanics of how to do. At first, I wanted to use the short first character as a foundation for what shapes the main character. Then I decided to begin the story in the middle – a quarterback injures his knee for the fourth time, for his fourth school, while scoring the winning touchdown in a playoff game – than flash back to how it all started.

For sleep, that’s strenuous.

I started writing a song for the first time in a while. I watched the NASCAR race and a Kurosawa film and the beginning and end of an NBA playoff game, with a movie I’d never seen (Richard Donner’s “Inside Moves”) in between. I’m watching movies differently since I have a movie in mind.

Soon I’ll still write about sports but not comprehensively. Soon a favorite writer of mine and I are taking a trip to visit another favorite writer. That ought to provide some fodder.

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