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Vacation Time
Jun. 27th, 2021 03:46 pmA is on vacation this coming week and of course we've already got our events planned out: museums, movies, walks and hikes! (Well, not so much a hike than a mosey around Muir Woods, which we haven't visited in a good few years.) And as always, we plan our events during the early part of the day, so we can spend the late afternoon into evening being lazy. (And so I can still squeeze in some daily writing work.) Then we'll be spending the following holiday weekend away from SF and its fireworky nonsense up north.
We've still been wearing our masks when we're out and about, mostly when we're near other people, but we've been okay with not having them on when the streets are sparse. Thankfully I don't think anyone in our neighborhood cares either way if we wear them, but we're more than happy to dish it out if someone starts anything with us, heh.
Meanwhile, last Monday I had a doctor's appointment, the first one in ages (at least 2-3 years, I think), just as a check up, and for the most part I'm still in good health, other than having typically high blood pressure, which they've given me meds for again. I may go in for blood tests later on because I haven't had that done in I don't know how long, plus a few other personal things to check up on. May as well before this ol' bag of bones decides to fall apart, yeah?
Not much else to report, other than that I've been busy writing and exercising and erranding a lot these last few days, which has kept me focused on the things I want and need to do. Which was my plan!
Oh! Speaking of writing, I was searching through some older files the other day and came across a piece of microfiction I have no memory at all of writing, but DAMN if it isn't submittable material. I think this was written during my final office days at the Former Day Job, when I was sneaking time writing my 750Words entries, and had forced myself to write something, anything, just to relieve the simmering irritation and anger. I'd have to look at the time stamp on it, but it seems to have been an idea out of nowhere that was most likely inspired by a weirdass dream I'd had that morning. Having read it again the other day, I feel like Paul McCartney when he wrote 'Yesterday' -- I'm absolutely convinced someone else wrote this and I just plagiarized them. Point being, though...it reads like nothing else I've written so I'm thinking I should ever so slightly revise it and submit it to a magazine somewhere, see what happens.
Hope everyone has a good week!
We've still been wearing our masks when we're out and about, mostly when we're near other people, but we've been okay with not having them on when the streets are sparse. Thankfully I don't think anyone in our neighborhood cares either way if we wear them, but we're more than happy to dish it out if someone starts anything with us, heh.
Meanwhile, last Monday I had a doctor's appointment, the first one in ages (at least 2-3 years, I think), just as a check up, and for the most part I'm still in good health, other than having typically high blood pressure, which they've given me meds for again. I may go in for blood tests later on because I haven't had that done in I don't know how long, plus a few other personal things to check up on. May as well before this ol' bag of bones decides to fall apart, yeah?
Not much else to report, other than that I've been busy writing and exercising and erranding a lot these last few days, which has kept me focused on the things I want and need to do. Which was my plan!
Oh! Speaking of writing, I was searching through some older files the other day and came across a piece of microfiction I have no memory at all of writing, but DAMN if it isn't submittable material. I think this was written during my final office days at the Former Day Job, when I was sneaking time writing my 750Words entries, and had forced myself to write something, anything, just to relieve the simmering irritation and anger. I'd have to look at the time stamp on it, but it seems to have been an idea out of nowhere that was most likely inspired by a weirdass dream I'd had that morning. Having read it again the other day, I feel like Paul McCartney when he wrote 'Yesterday' -- I'm absolutely convinced someone else wrote this and I just plagiarized them. Point being, though...it reads like nothing else I've written so I'm thinking I should ever so slightly revise it and submit it to a magazine somewhere, see what happens.
Hope everyone has a good week!
