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Monday, Shenanigans Ensued

I gave Chaos the mission of heading to the shops to get my polident. She decided to take off to do that long about 7AM... way before the shops open. I have no idea if she learned something from this, but Mayhem got paranoid about her staying away so long, so we had to stop by and make sure she was fine.

She's fine.

I have videos to post, a story to write, and an ankle to repeatedly ice. But at least I managed to get half a chapter done because -again- awake at 1AM. Yay?

Onwards and onwards to the remainder of my offerings.

Sunday, Catching up, Archive Reads, and Other Things

I've written the story for the next Archive prompt. I've posted the meme for yesterday in Blahaj.zone. I'm about to write today's tale and work on tomorrow's video.

After a week of snippets and little patches, I have finished a chapter of ADT. Huzzah. Also good news - Toasty has finished Escape From Divinity but I don't have the freedom to watch it just yet. Because the Archive stream is still going.

The bread I spent three days making is looking

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Saturday, Social Time is Very Important Darling

Spent most of today in very good company as the process of investigating Chaos' computer issues got properly unriddled. Diagnosis - one of her compy cooling fans wasn't.

She now has a temporary computer to see her over to the time in which the original is fixed. This will also help various server downtimes with our personal infrastructure. Or having backup systems when we need them.

And I do confess to spending some of the time I could have been writing in

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Friday, Physio, Bread, and Leyland's Tour

I'm going off to have my heels hammered today. On the way back, I'm stopping at Costco, Dickson's, and Aldi. For a very pliable definition of "on the way back".

I'm also wrangling bread.

So today is definitely going to be "fun".

Added to this "fun" is the fact that Chaos' compy is not playing nice. I have to pack it up and haul it down to Adorable's tomorrow. Which means I'll also be packing up a cold pack, an ice brick,

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Thursday, Mild Day PLN'd

I am taking it easy in between wrangling bread. That means not fussing about interruptions and allowing myself to write the offerings I want and then stop there.

I have the video ready for tomorrow, so all I need to fret about are: the bread, the offerings, and maybe getting a few more paragraphs into ADT. I am not getting fussy about that.

The rest of today will be spent in making my mountain.

I need the time to chill.

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Wednesday, Rant Due, Videos, and Burnout

I am feeling exhausted from the moment I get out of bed, so I know I need a breather. I'm spending today, tomorrow, and the day after wrangling a double batch of bread and holy shit, I need a holiday.

If I record and edit Friday's video today, I can take tomorrow at ease. Or relative ease. I've given myself so much to do that I have to really juggle time in order to take time off.

Something's got to break, and

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Tuesday, Shrink Day, Patreon, and Furthering PLNs

Mayhem's making mayonnaise and has decided that "power tools" are okay after all. Doing things by hand has some merit, and one of those is teaching you why tools exist in the first place.

Another one is knowing how to do the thing by hand.

Anyway. We're down to the last loaf of my bread, so I know what I'm doing for the next three days. Yes! Two firkin batches of bread because Chaos has managed to engulf an entire loaf in

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Monday, Surprise Expedition, Backup Reads, and Further PLNs

Mayhem has just notified me that he has to go to town this morning. I'll be finding out later if this is going to be a regular thing. Then I can actually plan my Mondays around them.

A little more than an hour's warning would be nice.

I'm experimenting again with not using the ankle brace, since it seems to be okay this morning.

Of course I'm still babying it. Hoping for the best and ready -just in case- for a relapse.

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Sunday, Archive Reads and PLNs

The Twitch channel AMothintheArchive is reading other writer's microfictions. I'm attending as normal.

Some time after Costco opens, I shall be offski on a rather urgent adventure since we're almost out of eggs. We're rather caning the supply.

I don't think I'm likely to go back to regular chain store eggs. Costco's are cheaper and more abundant. I'll also be picking up a few other things along the way because resupply seems to be my regular mission in life.

Meanwhile, I am

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Saturday, Hair Experiment and Taking it Easy

Once more, I am stuck nursing my ankle and otherwise attempting to return what passes as my health.

I am doing better. I can wander around without the cane, and in the brief occasions when I'm not wearing the brace, I am reminded why I need it with the odd little twinge.

I need to go shopping at some point because, once again, we're powering through the eggs and flour. My bread's delicious and Mayhem and I have developed the habit of

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Thursday, Bread and Preparations

If I want to do double-loaf baking, I should start on Sunday so that I can have Thursday and Friday theoretically free for helping MeMum with whatever issues she's got.

I've backed up my GoogDrive and am pondering deleting everything on there. BUT I also need a peripatetic version for writing while roaming. Ellipsus doesn't seem to update cross-devices and that's a bit of a problem for me.

So I'll be looking for good file-sharing alternatives before I trash my GoogDrive. Ideally

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Wednesday, Rant Due, Video Editing, and Patreon Overdue

...and bread. Because the ravening hordes reduced a loaf to half in one night. So it's sensible to start off a second batch.

I have a rant, I have to finish editing a video [I have to post those], I have to post the Patreon stuff... and the offerings.

The ankle and the bread don't exactly slow me down, but they do interrupt. They derail, distract, and delay progress.

I'll get things done. Eventually. I might have to maintain being kind to

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Tuesday, Patreon and Urgent Shopping

I owe my patrons a few things, starting with the five chapters' audio I was trying to record when my tower borked in the first place.

I'll be recording those very, very soon.

The good news is that most of a chapter I was recording at implosion is still there! I just need to loop in half a sentence and then, as Jukebox the Ghost sang, I am off to the races.

I also need to go fetch a new cable to

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Monday, Yoiks and Away

Hi ho, off to work Mayhem goes. Then I have to do the backup reads, some recordings and videos to wrangle, and shopping to do. And bread to bake.

As well as the usual offerings unto the temple of notes, icing my ankle every two hours, and maybe getting some selfish time at the end of the day.

I'm going to try to at least put one sentence into ADT while I'm there.

Stick a broom up my bum and I can

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