I’m replaying Planescape: Torment in 10-minute increments between meetings and also rereading The Dark Tower[efn_note]My kid recently finished reading the series for the first time and wants to have deep discussions my memory is too hazy to participate in. She was expounding on something, stopped, and said, “This is sucking up a lot of my […]
Between whatever’s causing my 1 a.m. anxiety attacks and those cutting short my already limited sleep, I’ve attained heretofore unimaginable levels of irritability. It’s an excellent time to not have social media to breathe fire all over.
Eventually, in order to level up, you have to start getting a lot better at things you suck at rather than 0.1% better in areas of existing competence. To that end, last year, I started working on short fiction. I have a natural inclination to complicate and expand, so I’ve always struggled with the tight
Witness me! I purchased only the yarn I need to finish a sweater and did not fill up my cart to get “free” shipping like a well-trained little consumer. Even with $6 S&H and 10% sales tax, the total squeaked in just under $20. Maybe all these squares will actually be a sweater by next
Every new visible crack in the publishing infrastructure inspires me to move one of my eggs to a new basket. Accordingly, I’ve added a Payhip store to my direct sales options. Still only the same old ebooks there for now, but I’m ghost-administering a workshop through Payhip’s course platform and taking notes on how I
I won’t be doing a year-end recap. I don’t particularly enjoy spewing negativity into the world and can’t put a positive spin on another terrible year in a long line of terrible years[efn_note]I think this is year seven of this particularly grim phase. If we blame it on Saturn’s quarter cycle, we can say there
A couple months ago, I made a double batch of orange cinnamon rolls, wrapped up one pan, and threw it in the freezer. I took it out to thaw today because I’ve earned no-effort sugar and gluten. That’s right, kiddies. This round of revision is done! 🥳 *arthritic twerking*
I missed the first 20 minutes of John Wick 2 the only time I had an opportunity to watch it and had no idea what it was supposed to be about, so I headcanoned that Keanu was at odds with Common for being unworthy of Queen Latifah in a different movie.[efn_note]Just Wright. (Also currently on
Look, I worked in healthcare for 20 years. I have a body of knowledge and first-hand anecdotes that are terrifying before applying imagination. This is incredibly useful for maintaining my social obligations at a tolerable level.
I bought a dozen composition notebooks in different colors for Project Notebooks rather than my habitual Compost Heap of Ideas, which eventually requires a full day to organize before it reaches critical mass. I cleaned my “desk” (the dining room table), which involved organizing and culling the latest Compost Heap of Ideas, kept a scratch