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Plague Diary

A 2025-post collection

Tuesday, Shrink Day and Other PLNs

I got a telehealth appointment with my brain quack today. And of course I activated the mechanism as soon as I started up the compy. Lest I get distracted by other things.

One of the things I spent my birthday money on is Death Stranding (Director's Cut) and I plan on spending at least a couple of hours on the spooky walking simulator for virtual hiking and chill.

Somewhere along the way, I also have to fill my Patreon with whatever I have got together. Y'all have got a lot of fanfic coming and that might be part of the problem.

Shiny distractions gonna shinily distract. Sigh.

I have only now just begun my entry for the next prompt in the Archive. That's going to be fun to arrange.

The new ankle bracer is working. I wish I knew the same about my knee stretchies. They take time to work, but dang they take a lot of time.

Onwards to do what I can in the time I have with the things available to me. Yaaaayyy...

Monday, Alternate PLNs

Mayhem's going to work on Wednesday, which means I have extra time to go forth and acquire supplies for the household. Huzzah.

Though walking around with my new, firmer ankle bracer is a bit of a pain in the arse, at least it doesn't require a sock so the velcro doesn't get on my sensory irritations. Part of my supply journey today includes stopping at a new meat place to see if the bargains are anything like Dickies.

Not helped by the

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Sunday, Chill Day

Deep Heat has done some magic on my knotted shoulders. I really need a Big Burly Someone to knead the tangles out of my bod. I shall continue to apply Deep Heat and hope for the best until I find someone to pummel the ouch out of me.

There's no twitchcast again this week. The regular host has caught a Lurgi.

So I have more time to think up the story for next week, and I plan on wasting some time today.

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Saturday, Baby Steps Again

Good news - I have an ankle brace with re-enforced sides. Bad news - getting used to it is a palpable learning curve. But I am getting used to it.

I fed my starter after a longer time period than usual. Wilson will be fine. I've done similar shenanigans before. I do try to not do it that often, for the record.

I need my cane again and doing my stretchies has to stop when they start to hurt. It's best to

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Friday, Battery PLNs and Mor Supplies

The batteries I have for our fire alarms are shit, and there's only two places that might have them. If we're lucky. So it's a Leyland's tour to keep the household safe from the threat of flame.

If I find them quickly, I'll pick up a few other things on the way back. If it's a long-ass search then I will drag myself home and get on with the offerings.

I sincerely hope to get my hands on a more rigid ankle

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Thursday, Tired Bean

I've been waking up early to chatter with maniacs again. Not for D&D but for a writing collaboration. It's... getting out of hand.

And so is my sleep cycle.

Which is why I'm writing this entry at one in the afternoon. Not at all helped by everything and its kid brother's dog waking me up before I got a proper rest in.

Onwards to today's story. Don't be surprised if I end up phoning it in. I'll try not to,

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Wednesday, Catching Up on Nonsense

I have begun prepping the pitch kits for A Devil's Tale book one. No point in pitching the rest of the six if I can't flog the other five.

I have some blurbs to brew up and the rest of it is lined up. Having a checksheet really helps get things together. Yay.

In a few hours, I'll have to put on some clothes because I am at last getting my preventer prescription. Hooray. I can also get supplies along the way.

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Tuesday, Patreon, Headaches, and Remote Tech Support

There's a lot of horseshit happening in my life today that I did not need happening. Starting with the precursor to a truly nasty stress headache that renders me functionally blind. Yay. The good news is that I clued on to what was happening and got myself dosed up with painkillers in time.

The bad news is - I have too much stress going on.

I have my mum panicking about her pension to the point where she's forgotten how to use

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Monday, Addle-addle Coddle-coddle

I forgot what I have to do on Monday - take Mayhem to the train so he could go to work. I keep drifting off to sleep at random moments despite my being well rested.

I'm working on finishing a chapter, today. Working on my normal nonsense. Figuring out what the living fuck has gone wrong with Kdenlive this time to make the subtitles fuck up.

That's going to be an ongoing thing, I am sure.

Meanwhile, I can at least provide

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Sunday, Reads and Cake

I have a story to read for tomorrow's video. I have five chapters to read so that (maybe) Adorable can hear them. So far, efforts had not been great.

I'm recording on schedule today...

UPDATE!

I got interrupted by an errand to take machinery and bits to Beloved, and I got a couple more chapters read for her. Yay.

So now I get on with my offerings and video read at minimum. If I can, I'll get the latest five chapters recorded

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Saturday, Merry Birthmas to Me

I'm 53 today, and at some point, I must acquire cake. I may even have to ferry the kids around so they can get me bifdy presents.

I have the offerings to do and I might just pitch Adapting to the one agency that's speed-run rejecting my stuff. If any day is the day to be brave about things, it's today.

I did have a thought to bullshitting up a cover for the All Hallows' Read story I've got completed, but... I

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Friday, Ease From Busy

I only have the offerings to do today, so I have some spare minutes to attempt to make an appointment so I can get my meds. Yay.

My bad habits are continuing. I need a minder.

At least I got my offerings out and about, a little late if not on time. And I'll have the time to mess about with the free trial of Scrivener. Seeing what I can do on the free model before I invest my limited coin in

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Thursday, Physio and Busy-o

Physio was the easy part. Part of my PLN was to get Tessa her Over 18 card and - yikes. She forgot one important piece of the 100 points of ID.

So I had to go back home [getting eggs on the way], re-fill out the form because I had shit wrong, drive all the heck way back out to the place, wait even more time for a number to be called... and finally set the dominoes into place to get the

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Wednesday, Rant Stuff and Bread

Once again, I am juggling many things. Why do I do this to myself and how can I slow it down a smidge? Asking for a true friend/own enemy.

I have bread going. I have a rant due. I have a mentee's story to help edit. And at least I've posted the video over in Peertube. Yay there.

And of course the periodic interruption of my stupid ankle being a little bitch. It's decided it doesn't like me standing on one

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Tuesday, Patreon and Other PLNs

I'm posting the video tomorrow. I'm working on bread today, tomorrow, and doing a final bake on Thursday. Yay.

In a few minutes, I'll start working on my offerings for the interwebs.

I've got the starter in the incubator and the first batch of ingredients weighed and waiting. I'm going to have to reserve some hours for cleaning the gluck off/out of my keyboard. Now that I know how to use the keypick, I can do that.

I now have a

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