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Saturday, Parkrun and PLNs

I did token sorting this week, so I'm testing myself next week by walking as far as I can before my heel starts to hate me.

We'll see how well that goes. Next week.

This week, I'm not running D&D so that I have time for Mother's Day stuff. She's getting more stash, some play time with my chainsaw, and a lift to acquire more stuff and things.

Meanwhile, an experiment in the Writer's Group has resulted in one of my prompt stable getting voted in. So of course I wrote that story before I worked on today's literary offering. We might conspire to get some other writer's best-loved prompts a turn under other's pens. Or... cursors.

Beloved is plotting to get me to start making videos. I have material in waiting. I just need the right software and the right amount of time. And Beloved's federated competitor with TubeTube.

We have PLNS going behind the curtain. A little rebellion, built for and by real people, might be just the thing this world needs.

We'll see how it goes.

Challenge #04513-L129: Permission Denied

Weapons were banned on the station save for trained security personnel. You wanted to bring your weapon? Fine, it was either locked in a specially sealed display box, or left in security until YOU left the station. Sadly, WAY too many knomiras scream, when they find out . "I have right to be armed!" -- Anon Guest

[AN: The right to bear arms should always come with the responsibility to handle and use them as safely as possible.]

There were up sides and

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Friday, Back to Old Patterns

The instant I finish this blog entry, I'm cleaning the catio. Now fully functional and accessible to the household felines. Then I move onwards with the daily offerings and an attempt to do a thing.

And already my plns have crashed because a parcel has arrived with subscription meds. Yay. So now my plns include putting on clothes, going place, and fetching thing.

Yay.

I'll still have a go at kicking something. Briefly.

Offerings very soon.

But first... the meatspace stuff.

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Challenge #04512-L128: Ordinary Household Chemicals

An experienced soap maker is treating the burns of someone new to the craft.

"I told you to add the lye to the water, not water to the lye!"

ow... that hurts... what's the difference?

"Severe burns and scalding hot water jetting back at you due to the reaction! At least pouring it in to the water rather than having it under the water allows the gasses to escape BEFORE you mix it!" -- Lessons

The tap was whining at Zienn as

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Thursday, Appointment Day

For one glorious hour, I thought I had a solution to the Zrythm thing. The potential fix didn't work and I don't know what I did to make it not work. I mean, apart from having the Fickle Finger when it comes to tech.

I have faith that it will get unriddled in good time.

I have a shrink appointment, and physio happening today. At least I only have the minimal offerings to fret about today.

And I got out all the

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Challenge #04511-L127: To Choose Peace

"Would you side with these people against me?? You are just like me! Trufel!"

I am nothing like you. I believe in compassion.

"They will hate you and destroy everything you love!"

And I will forgive them.

"WHY??"

Because someone has to be the first to let go of the hate and try something else. -- Anon Guest

[AN: I looked up 'Trufel' and couldn't find more than a corruption of 'truffle' So I'm assuming that's a name]

Trufel took a deep

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Wednesday, Overdue Offerings and Rant

Since I have just about finished reading the Sharing Knife series, I think I should probably go on a bit of a rant and rave about that one.

I'm collating chapters for Book 5 one folder at a time and I'll be posting my owed Patreon content very, very soon.

The PLN for to day is do a little bit of one thing, work on another, then go back to the thing. Until the thing is done. Until all my things are

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Challenge #04510-L126: Not So Helpless

I may be in a wheelchair, but I can still kick your tail before you raise that blade. I'm limited, not helpless. -- Fighting Fit

[AN: Tempted to use Kosh's all-terrain wheelchair with caterpillar treads for this one, but nah. Should aim for the normal model]

The streets are paved well, and for that I am grateful. I've seen the perambulatory chair favoured by a noble or two, but that thing is frighteningly complicated. My main wheels are from a velocipede, and

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Tuesday, Patreon, Deliveries, Shopping, etc.

I owe some stuff to Patreon. I owe some offerings to y'all today. I should be recording five more chapters and that should be going up on Patreon too. I should be focussing on all of that but the allure of relax time is calling me.

I can resist. I hope.

On the plus side, Mum has her seasonal chocolate and a half-dozen eggs, a fix to her tech, and refreshes supplies. Yay.

I have no idea what I'm going to doodle

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Challenge #04509-L125: The Terror Within

The researchers startled from their tents to hear screaming from the tent belonging to the humans. They see two humans trying to calm the third, who looked terrified. They explained, gently, their friend dealt with night-terrors sometimes, the past was not a gentle one. -- The New Guy

Of all possible rude awakenings, one of the worst has to be waking up to witness your roommate being killed. Leading slightly above that is doing the same with another individual readying their weapon

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Monday, Backup Reads and Back to Work

First week of not "working" during the weekend. This, in my case, means not working on the novel or any of my side projects for two days. Which, in turn, means encouraging myself to get back on to doing the thing. IF I can focus on doing half a chapter a day through the week, I can plausibly write up to two and a half chapters a week.

Which is likely to fall over tomorrow, because Mission to MeMum's. We'll see how

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Challenge #04508-L124: Just Open the Door

They're shy, terrified of talking to others about how they feel, and still suffering, mentally, from all they endured from the polity they were rescued from. The therapist, suggests writing out their feelings instead, since talking about it is so difficult for them. When they admit they are unable to read or write, They are given a diary, a few pencils, and a lesson book, and introduced to another who'd been rescued from that polity, who was willing to teach. -- Lessons

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Sunday, Game Night and Further PLNs

I'm planning to get to sleep at 5PM today, all so I can be awake at the right time to run the VTTRPG. My keyboard is behaving itself again, but yesterday was entirely terrifying.

I will be keeping all beverage containers out of accidental knocking-down distance. Religeously.

One scare is PLENTY.

I'm listening to AMothintheArchive on Twitch as they go through some entries from last week. I know what the prompt should be for next week, but there's always room for a

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Challenge #04507-L123: Low Made High

An elderly person living alone in a hovel had but one wish. To live, if but for a little while, somewhere warm in their old age. They awoke one morning to find themselves in an enchanted wizard's tower, that was also part retirement home, that moved through the lands. And the kind wizard helping them, and other elderly, find solace and companionship in their twilight years. -- Lessons

For the longest time, the only care for the elderly was their younger family

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Saturday, Parkrun and Technical Difficulties

Parkrun was a huge success for me. I repeated my experiment of walking without my cane to the halfway point, and then walking with support on the way back. I now have confirmation of the end of Volume Five of ADT so now all I need to do is fill in all the chapters between where I am and the two chapters I wrote for the very, very end.

Seventy-four chapters to go.

Meanwhile, I spilled a teeny tiny drop of beverage

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