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.
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
Read more »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
Read more »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.
Read more »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
Read more »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
Read more »Today, I get to sit for two hours at a time. No interruptions for bread, just interruptions for the ankle.
I have videos to post, at last. And videos to finish editing. I really should clear out my old video data before it borks my drive. I can do that today.
If I can focus long enough to do a thing.
Focus is the issue.
Hocus pocus...
Read more »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
Read more »...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
Read more »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
Read more »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
Read more »I just finished today's tale and Adorable has my tower at minimum functionality. Since she's already working on it, the next order of operations is to get subtitles working on my version of Kdenlive. So I can stop bothering her for the subs to my videos. Huzzah.
At least I got the self-maintenance done. Yay. I'm taking that win.
Packing the cold pack seems to have worked, as I can keep it cold in Adorable's spare fridge. All I'm lacking is a
Read more »I gleeked on my lappy keyboard in the wee small hours of this morning and have had to do a hard reboot to fix the random BS that was happening as a result.
Gleek(n): That thin stream of saliva that comes out sometimes when you yawn.
It's now almost noon. It's taken me this long to unfuck the issue.
For the record, I had random windows popping to the top when I didn't click anything, and essential buttons refusing to be
Read more »Hopefully, I get the green light for driving further than a shopping expedition. That means I can take my tower to Adorable to get it un-imploded tomorrow. Why tomorrow? Because the physio is happening this afternoon. Taking it towards the evening might be a little bit on the risky side.
Best to go in full daylight so I don't risk making two round trips when I may only be able to withstand one.
I've set up a "working nest" on the dining
Read more »My main compy imploded because I accidentally kicked the power loose multiple times because I need a pillow for my stupid pained ankle because I twisted it getting out of the car at Costco [that ate the malt that lay in the house that Jack built]. So I now cannot edit the videos due tomorrow. And a bunch of other things, besides. A lot of the stuff I do for the interwebs is locked in that machine and I can only pray
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