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I've been doing a lot of rereading of Queen Ophelia's War these days. When I get in to the 'constantly rereading my WIP' segment of a novel project, that means that I'm relatively okay with the draft I'm currently working with, and this is the one I can use as a master to work on overdubs, edits and additional vocals. Which is a good thing, because I've been hoping to get this one out sometime early next year.

Thing is, what I haven't been doing is actually working on the damn thing. Part of it is because I've been distracting myself with blogging and other things. I haven't necessarily been putting it off as I haven't really made all that much effort to try and get somewhere with it. I've just decided to go on a blog hiatus for at least a month in the hopes that I'll get off my arse and get moving on that right away. [I'll still work on the daily 750 as that doesn't take all that long for me and I kind of see it as a warm-up before the actual work. And besides, I'm still writing and not doing something else like playing games or futzing around with my mp3s, right?]

I haven't been reading all that much this year either. I've mentioned much earlier that I think reading that Big Honking Two Volume Beatles Book exhausted me mentally, but come on -- it's been a good number of months so there's got to be another reason why I'm just not resonating with any books these days. I did distract myself recently by reading the full run of the Gunsmith Cats manga on hoopla (as mentioned, I'd forgotten how horny that one could be at times, heh), and the occasional manga catch-up, but that's it. I've got Karen Lord's latest next to my bed with two of her previous books in the same universe to reread, and I'm hoping that might break me out of this slump. We shall see.

Anyway, it's far past time for me to get work done again.

Current Mood: hopeful
Current Location: Spare Oom
Current Music: Everything But the Girl, 'Fuse'

I'll admit I've been mum on the socials for a good while now, for probably obvious reasons. One of them having been mentioned here (trying to escape passive scrollrage), but I just find it exhausting recently. Twitter (not calling it that stupid name he stole from the LA band) is a shitshow these days and feels like a cross between your local paper's angry letters to the editor and a spam-throttled BBS on its final death throes. I mean yeah, I could probably do a major purge/block/mute but it's more than that. It's just kind of sad to see how far it's fallen in such a short time.

I don't have much of a problem with Facebook these days -- it's actually kind of fascinating how the terribleness of FB migrated to the birdsite and FB calmed itself right down to normalcy. BlueSky is much better [NOTE: I have a fistful of invites if anyone needs one!] but is still buggy in that not-quite-chronological-but-close way that makes me twitch and not everyone I know is on there.

I'm mostly on Discord with my close circle of friends these days, and doing most of my posting here and on my two WP blogs.

Still, I suppose I could say I remain exhausted of Constantly Being Plugged In. Call it age, or having fewer spoons, or just tiring of the drama, I've needed to focus on myself instead of Every Single Local/World Event Every Single Day. I search for ways to process it at my own speed instead of at everyone else's.

But yeah, I'm still there, I've just been super passive and quiet about it.

Current Mood: awake
Current Location: Spare Oom
Current Music: KEXP Online

Yet another Sunday in which we head to the farmer's market -- this time to pick up all sorts of tasty fruits and maybe even a small pie for dessert, with a side trip to the Richmond Republic for a tasty brunch. I'm glad things are back to normal and I can get this day off. I'm also glad the heat wave we've had the last few days (upwards of mid-80s and very humid) has finally broken and we're back to our usual mid-60s coolness. A great couple of days for Fleet Week and the Blue Angels shows, but I'm glad we're back to normal. A and I don't do hot days all that well anymore.

The Day Job continues apace, and another decision I've made is not to get upset about certain things anymore, because some things either can't be helped (by me) or really don't amount enough to warrant being upset. I don't worry about the one remaining guy who continues to steal our booze every now and again, because he's pinching $6 wine coolers instead of $40 whiskeys. I'm frustrated by the thirty or forty high school teens that have been coming in at noon and again at 3:30 without fail, five days a week, but I'm no longer completely upset by it because I've confirmed that Manager 1 is more pissed off about it than I am. I'll get annoyed with things, sure, but I let it go soon afterwards.

If I've learned anything over the years at Day Jobs is that when I start finding certain things insufferable, it's partly due to my letting myself get that upset. I have a coworker who's been on everyone's shitlist the last couple of days, and though he'll irritate the hell out of me sometimes, it's better for me to cut off his nonsense early on and turn it around. I can hear this in a few other coworkers: sometimes they allow certain things to eat at them, and it's not healthy. These are all fixable things I'm talking about, by the way: reassignment, distraction by errands, sending them out to the floor to assist stockers, and so on. I'm too damn old to play this emotional game and I really don't want to play it anymore.

ANYWAY! The schedule for the next couple of days will be a bit odd, partly due to needing time to drive A to/from the airport for her work trip, but nothing I can't work around. As long as I use my off time writing like I need to!

Current Mood: contemplative
Current Location: Spare Oom

I am SO looking forward to taking tomorrow off. The last three days at the day job have been extremely exhausting partly due to Many High School Teens coming in for lunch and after-school shenanigans and also due to Every Single Person In the Neighborhood Needs to Shop Tonight. I'm pretty much running on fumes this afternoon.

So what am I doing tomorrow? Well, probably catching up on a few writing things I wasn't able to get to the last few days and maybe the laundry, but that's about it. We've had super nice weather the last few days so perhaps an after-work walk might be in the cards as well. But other than that? Yeah, tomorrow is a well-earned day off!

Current Mood: exhausted
Current Location: Spare Oom

All these weird hours lately have pretty much made me forget what day it is. And considering that I had yesterday off, did a short shift today, and have tomorrow off as well, I'm still not entirely sure what day it is! So of course they won't have next week's schedule up until tonight so I'm debating whether I should just wait until Saturday morning or if I should go in and check it when I do my shopping tomorrow.

Either way, these hours are also kind of putting a spanner in the works regarding work on Queen Ophelia's War. I'm squeezing some words in here and there, but it's slow going and I really need to fix that or else it won't be going anywhere at all. At the same time, i don't want to force it either because that never works. I'll just find the time one way or another. As long as it's moving.

I do hope this schedule gets back to normal soon...we do have a couple of new hires and I hope that they'll be able to cover some of the weird shifts I've been picking up so they can put me back to mornings or some other time.

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: Spare Oom
Current Music: Secret Machines, 'The Moth, the Lizard and the Secret Machines'

The head bookkeeper has taken an extended weekend to house sit (somewhere in the mountains, so I've been told) which means I've been doing 5:30 opens for the last couple of days. Surprisingly I'm not exhausted, but merely sleepy. Even yesterday, when I pulled a very heavy u-boat of bag bundles across the entire store to the front then emptied a full pallet of bagged ice in the walk-in freezer soon after? I wasn't all that tired. A good sign that I'm in much better shape than I thought, I guess? Either way, I have one more open and then a midshift, and then I have Wednesday off. Hopefully I won't be too drained by then. I'm thinking I should get back to doing the outside breaks again. I stopped last week due to the bad air quality (smoke from Oregon and far north CA), but it's gotten a little better again, so there's no reason not to. As long as the weather is with me!

Having good vibes about the work I'm doing on Queen Ophelia's War, even if it has been just a few paragraphs and sentences here and there. I know I have a few rough spots that are going to need a hell of a lot of work, but I'm not going to worry about it because once I get past those two or three problem scenes the rest is relatively smooth sailing. I'd also like to get back to MU4 as well, but one thing at a time for the moment.

Not much else to report, considering it's been a work-home-write-sleep cycle for the last several days. Looking forward to the next few days off, where I may do something crazy like laundry or grocery shopping! Heh.

Current Mood: relaxed
Current Location: Spare Oom
Current Music: Owl City, 'Coco Moon'

While I didn't get a chance to take my ten minute breaks outside the last couple of days, I'm not too worried about it. The plus side to having bookkeeping duties at the day job on the weekends is that it takes precedence over register duty unless we are super short-staffed. And the great thing is that's been somewhat rectified with three new hires this past week. I've met two of them and they're really nice and definitely people I don't have to babysit for hours on end. I can leave them alone up front while I do what needs doing in the cash office.

All that to say that I've had a relatively calm couple of work days to the point where I didn't really need to head outside to detox! Heh.

It's another wonky work week, this time due to the main bookkeeper taking his own days off, which is only fair, and it's not all that bad either. Only one midshift this time out! So today is my Sunday in which I get to do boring things like laundry and grocery shopping and catching up with blogs, heh.

Current Mood: relaxed
Current Location: Spare Oom
Current Music: KEXP online

Starting this week at work, I'm following through with my plan to take my ten minute breaks (and the latter half of my lunch) outside rather than hiding in the small break room. It's part of my 'get off the damn internet' experiment, and it seems to be working much better than expected. I've been heading up to the upper parking deck these last few days -- taking the steps because the elevators are broken again -- and finding a quiet spot in the corner to just relax and meditate. I've popped the phone open once or twice, but mainly to text A for one thing or another, and also to keep an eye on the time so I don't go over. It was inspired by one of my coworkers who always goes outside during his own breaks rather than sitting around. He's one of those 'can never sit still' sort of guys (who, ironically, has been at home sitting still these last several weeks with a broken foot) and I've been meaning to do the same for ages now.

The funny thing is that it reminds me of my HMV days, when I'd take unscheduled smoke breaks out on the upper parking deck at Solomon Pond Mall (back when you could smoke by the door instead of miles away). This was well before I owned a cell phone, and that was when I spent the time thinking about my writing. I didn't force it at the time because I'd already been thinking about it on the daily for months -- that was also when I'd started going to work early to have a longhand writing session in the food court. It was my few minutes of mental detox during a busy day by way of allowing my imagination to play around in my little created universe for a few minutes every couple of hours.

Which makes me think: maybe I can make this happen again? I mean, without the smoking habit, heh. I've already got the pre-job writing session here at home (thanks, ten minute walking commute!), so I don't need to focus on that. But once I get back to consistent work on my WIPs again, that can be my break-time distraction: thinking over and planning my next writing session. Nothing intensive, just passive, relaxing and enjoyable thoughts about my current work in progress.

And a few minutes of mental detox every couple of hours during a busy day isn't a bad thing at all.

Current Mood: contemplative
Current Location: Spare Oom
Current Music: KEXP online

Today's our last day of vacation, and I'm already looking forward to getting back into the swing of things come tomorrow. As much as I've enjoyed the mental and physical slowdown to recharge my batteries, I'm more than ready to get moving again. These days off helped me rethink the way I approach my Current Day Job day. Aside from the stressful moments -- which to be honest aren't even close to unhealthy as the bank job's were -- I truly enjoy being there. As I've said in the past, my one concern as of late was wasting so much time on social media during my breaks, and wanting to break that habit once and for all.

There are different ways I can approach it, and one I'm planning to do is the one I used to get myself to quit smoking ages ago: 'let's see how long I can go without doing [x]'. Something as simple as reverse psychology works for me on occasion, so why not try it here? Let's see how long I can go without screwing around on my phone. Let's step outside for a few minutes. Let's bring in one of my Publisher's Weeklys that I'm desperately falling behind on and read that instead. Whatever works.

I'm also happy that this week's upcoming schedule is one I can handle easily. Opening tomorrow, followed by two midshifts (tiring but not exactly stressful if I play them right), followed by a day off, and ending the week with two bookkeeper-opens. I do like a steady schedule instead of a wonky one, so I'm hoping that this one becomes the norm, or at least close to it. [Now, I'm expecting the coworker who broke his foot to be returning sometime this month which may relieve me of one of the midshifts, but we'll see.]

In the meantime, it's Sunday which means it's also laundry day and PC cleaning day, so that's pretty much the only other things I need to do.

Hope everyone has a good week ahead!

Current Mood: relaxed
Current Location: Spare Oom
Current Music: Fever Ray, 'Radical Romantics'

I have to say this was one of the most relaxing vacations I've had in a while, and I think it worked out well that we'd planned out a trip that wasn't completely filled with Must Do/See/Experience things. We did have things planned out for each day for the most part, but they were essentially 'go out to eat' or 'see this movie' or 'do some shopping' and that was pretty much it. (Not including a few minor errands like laundry and so on.)

It got me thinking about a few things, really. The first one is that come Monday I'll be returning back to the Day Job...and not dreading it. I'm still appreciating the fact that I work at a place where I'm not dreading dealing with an email inbox that's been through the wars. I stopped by the store today to get next week's schedule and while they say it's been a bit busy especially with a few call-outs, it hasn't exactly been terrible.

The second one is that I'm reminded of those school and college vacations of yore, where I'd look forward to Not Doing Anything to essentially get my head back in working order. I'm kind of glad that I'm not in that situation any longer, considering my head is in a MUCH better working order than those days of yore. It's not often that I come back from vacation feeling rested and looking forward to another cycle of work and socializing.

Anyhoo, I have two and a half more days of this vacation so I'm going to enjoy them while I can!

Current Mood: calm
Current Location: Spare Oom
Current Music: Death Cab for Cutie, 'Asphalt Meadows (Acoustic)'

Our weeklong vacation has been very relaxing and enjoyable so far. We spent the last three days up in Bodega Bay just enjoying the scenery, the wildlife, and the blessed silence, but we are now back in the city and plan to do not much of anything except maybe do a bit of shopping and go to the zoo at some point. Can't complain! I do plan on getting a few other things done on the interim considering I have all the time for it.

Also happy that I'm catching up on sleep. The last several weeks have been kind of wonky, between waking up at 4am some days and working until 8pm other days, partly due to a few people being out on leave, but hopefully that'll change soon upon their return. One of my coworkers gladly watched/fed/played with our cats in our absence, and they've updated me on what's going on at the shop (which, apparently, not much of anything new other than a few grumpy people and another person unsurprisingly calling out AGAIN). I'll be honest, I'm glad I now work at a place where I can return after a vacation and not have to worry about spending the next two weeks cleaning up the fallout of any email inboxes!

Meanwhile, today's vacation excitement is to take the bus downtown to explore the brand new IKEA store. Heh.

Current Mood: relaxed
Current Location: Spare Oom

In preparation for our mini-vacation starting tomorrow, we've spent most of today so far (after a tasty brunch at Joe's Coffee Shop) cleaning the apartment. This would include: using the Uproot Clean rake on the two rugs in the living room, a major scrub-down of the shower, washing of bedsheets and blankets, floor mopping, and vacuuming. [I will be starting in on that final one once I catch my breath.]

And who, you ask, will be watching over our cats in our absence? One of my coworkers will be cat-sitting! They have experience and have confirmed their work schedule fits perfectly on the days we need. They'll be staying here so we're just making sure everything is clean and in working order.

And in between all that, I am of course also doing my weekly PC cleaning, of which I am about two weeks behind on. I'm not too worried considering I've had this new computer for about a month now, but it doesn't hurt to chase out those pesky bugs and fix those weak spots. Thankfully I have not had any PC issues so far other than the occasional internet drop-out (which I've mentioned here before), so it's always good to ensure it doesn't happen anyway!

Am now all sweaty and a bit tired, but it's worth it.

Current Mood: winded
Current Location: Spare Oom

Looking forward to our little vacation coming up, but I really should get around to cleaning up the house a bit as well. I'm hoping to do that within the next couple of days, considering I'll have more time then. Mainly the usual stuff like laundry and vacuuming, but I really need to give the bathroom a good scrubbing as well.

I'm basically just running out the clock at work this week, taking each shift as it comes. A midshift yesterday and today, plus two opens Thursday and Friday, then I'll be off for a week. I've taken a few days off here and there throughout the year, but I think this is the first full week (with vacation pay) I've taken this year, which is saying something. Which reminds me, I need to look up the rest of my vacation balance and plan accordingly before it's too late! I still say that even though this Day Job is more physically taxing, it's a hell of a lot less stress than the Former Day Job, and I would not want to return to it at all. I'll take physical labor over Consistently Vague Responsibilities any day.

That said...I'm thinking that I'll finally get started on my next novel WIP once we're back from our vacation. It's high time!

Current Mood: awake
Current Location: Spare Oom
Current Music: KEXP online

On today's writing blog I announced that I'd be taking the next two weeks off from posting because why the hell not. We'll be on a week's vacation starting this coming weekend so I figured I may as well add a week to that while I can. No real pressing reason other than I'm allowed to take a break every now and again. I'll probably still post here as this is where I talk about more personal stuff, and I'll still do my daily 750 Words while I can.

Workwise, not much to report there. I've come to the conclusion that I kind of enjoy the weeks where it's split up a little -- say, a Thursday off in between the five-day week -- as it gives me a bit of a reprieve if a lot has gone on. And our sales have gone up considerably these last few weeks, so there are days when I come home absolutely knackered. Those midweek breaks are a nice reprieve. Gives me time to recover from a busy work day a bit more, plus I get to catch up on writing and other non-Day Job stuff.

Speaking of work and vacation, it occurs to me that I don't think I got around to scheduling that second week that's coming to me...!! I'll have to look it up to confirm that, and maybe look for some pre-holiday time off as well? Heh.

Current Mood: relaxed
Current Location: Spare Oom
Current Music: KEXP online

The work week wasn't exactly bad per se, just BUSY enough and the schedule wonky enough (two midshifts followed by three early shifts with no break in between) that I've been drained of energy over the last three days. Despite all that, I did have just enough energy to walk to the farmer's market today and enjoy beer and lunch at our favorite local pub. I'm definitely still tired and sleepy though, so I doubt I'll be doing much of anything else for the rest of the day that requires movement.

Next week's schedule is a little more bearable, though...I'm doing only one midshift, one afternoon half-shift and a few mornings (with a break in between) which means I won't be all wobbly by the end of it. I've come to enjoy the mid-week breaks, actually...it breaks things up and it gives me a bit of a respite so I can catch my breath.

I did mention on FB the other day that school has started again in the neighborhood, which means The Teen Hordes are back. Technically the high school kids are not supposed to cross Geary Blvd during school hours for safety's sake, but somehow that's become a rule we can't enforce (don't ask, I don't know), so that means they come to the store during their lunch times and hover like a swarm around the self-checkouts before leaving detritus in their wake. I mean yeah, I usually don't mind them, but they just stand there TAKING UP ALL THE ROOM with zero space between them, unaware of what Inside Voice means. They don't stay long but YIKES they are a bear to manage sometimes.

Anyhoo -- doing my usual Sunday catch-up with emails, blogs and whatnot, so back to the trenches...

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: Spare Oom
Current Music: The Church, 'The Hypnogogue'

This is the second week in a row that I've got Sunday and Monday off followed by working two midshifts on Tuesday and Wednesday, then three opens of varying lengths for the rest of the week. It's a bit exhausting by the end of the week, but it's not that bad because I get Sunday to do stuff with A and catch up on other things on Monday.

So what did we do today? We drove up to the Petaluma to have lunch with A's brother (and drop off a set of our house keys, something we'd been meaning to do for a while) and did a bit of shopping as well. I was hoping to go to Tall Toad Music downtown to buy some guitar strings for my acoustic but by the time we finished at Target it was getting late, it was far too hot and I just wanted to head home. A and I are so used to the constant 50s-60s and fog these last couple of weeks that going outside in the hot sun was not all that fun.

What was fun was that we finally went to the premium outlet center up there and got some super sweet clothing deals. I am now flush in tees and collared shirts for work and also picked up a pair of nice shoes for super cheap. They also have a place there that's a combination used book nook and cat adoption center, so you can chill out and just play with the kitties there for a bit. They'd just let them out onto the floor when we walked by and got to watch a bit of kitty silliness through the front windows, heh.

[Speaking of cats, that's part of the reason we wanted to drop off the keys -- though we have a cat sitter for our upcoming trip, we felt it might be good for our relatives to have a set in case we're away again, or for emergency purposes. But mainly to ensure that Juli and Cali are well looked after, of course!]

And now I get to chill for the rest of the evening...

Current Mood: relaxed
Current Location: Spare Oom
Current Music: The Telescopes, 'Experimental Health'

It does not bode well when your coworker texts you an hour before your shift starts with the words "Did you lose power?" [As it happens, we did not, as we are on a different grid than the store up the street.] The power was indeed out for about two hours probably due to a transformer blowing up the street, but all was well an hour after I logged in. I was still nervous about it happening again, however. Thankfully it did not!

So today is the second of two midshifts, and the rest of the week will be opens. Which I'm fine with, given that I've been waking up around 5-ish anyway regardless of the alarm. I'll have more time to do a few things I've been needing to do at that time. I am worried, however, that I'll be scheduled to work on Sunday as one of my coworkers is going to Outside Lands. I really don't want to have to work his shift, especially if he normally closes on that day. I've been tempted to request marking myself as "unavailable" on that day soon. It depends on a few things that are still up in the air, but we shall see.

Okay, time to prepare for work! Woo!

Current Mood: awake
Current Location: Spare Oom
Current Music: KEXP online

Thanks to an online friend I now have access to Bluesky, and yes, it really does feel like Twitter before all those pesky intrusive ads and venture capitalists with too much money and not enough sense took over. It's still in beta form so there's still going to be a lot of tweaking and adjusting and occasional crashing going on, but I'm fine with that. I'm enjoying it so far!

So with that I've decided what I *don't* want to do with it:

--I'd rather not have it as yet another "can you believe this idiot I've just retweeted" dunking outlet when one is too many. I've been trying to grow out of that reactionary setting for years now.
--I'd rather not use it for kvetching or 'everything sucks' outlet either. It's not the best side of me.
--I don't want to talk politics there. I've gone off it in general all around as it is, and I was never good at it.
--I don't want it to be a mental and emotional timesuck like Twitter can be. If your feed is mainly reposts of the above, then chances are I will either mute you or not follow. No offense, but I don't need nor want that in my life right now.

But what *do* I want to do with it?

--I'd like to be an adult with it. Y'know, say and share normal things. And abnormal things. Things that interest and fascinate me. The 'hey this is cool, check this out.' I want it to be a platform where I can share things I think are awesome.
--I'd like to use it as at least one of my Professional Writer platforms, so just a slight bit of decorum. Not much, but enough!
--I will most definitely talk music on there. Have you met me??
--It will also be my repository of daily/weekly links to my blogs, including this one.

So in short: it's what I'd started doing with Twitter until that site and its moods and ambience got the best of me. A fresh start, I suppose! Either way, it's been a bit of a slow start as I've only posted maybe three or so things there, but it's a start. And I'm really hoping that this one survives and expands to the point where anyone can join without an invite!

Current Mood: contemplative
Current Location: Spare Oom
Current Music: TV Star, 'Hallucinate Me'

Yes it is! it's weird when I *do* have a Sunday off because I'm so used to my occasionally oddball work schedule that midweek feels like a Monday, heh. And I have tomorrow off, yay! Which means I get another 'get caught up' day! Woo!

Anyway -- a coworker of mine is going to be stopping by very soon to visit our two cats as we're hiring them for cat sitting when we take a mini-trip in early September. They've got pet-sitting experience and we get along swimmingly (and amusingly I often forget I'm basically their parents' age) and live just up the road so it won't be that much of a problem either way. This is the first time we'll be away from the cats for more than a few hours so this is going to feel a bit weird, but the fuzzbutts will be in good hands.

Meanwhile, one of our elderly neighbors passed away some weeks ago and they've been slowly emptying out the apartment. He was one of this building's longest tenants for quite a few decades, and sadly was a bit of a hoarder (super nice guy, though, and one of the first people I met when we moved in) so there's been a slowly growing pile of all kinds of things out front that will probably need more than one dumpster to get it all out and away. There's also most likely going to be a few months' worth of remodel/reno while they're at it. This added to the downstairs neighbors moving out, the southern lightwell and the garage getting some repairs, and an upcoming street drain excavation and fix, I kind of feel bad for our landlady (another super nice person, and we're on her Good List!), but it's gotta be done!

And that's what's going on here in foggy and wet Richmond District these days...

Current Mood: relaxed
Current Location: Spare Oom
Current Music: Caroline Polachek, 'Desire, I Want to Turn Into You'

This past week at work was exhausting and a bit weird due to people calling out and things not going as planned, but yesterday it ended quite nicely with me almost completely avoiding the registers by way of finishing up several small work-related errands I'd been putting off. I got most of them completed with few issues and spent the rest of the day relaxing! Thankfully my schedule is even more back to normal this coming week with only one mid-shift and no closes. Yay! Oh-- and I may be in the running for becoming the new liquor manager for the store...? Still not sure where I stand with it as the posting schedule got kind of effed up, but the talk around the shop is hinting that I *might* be in the lead? Who knows? More to come as this unfolds...

Today we were originally going to go to Crissy Field but the fog had come in over the mouth of the Bay, so we nixed that as it would probably be a bit cold and unexciting. So we ended up walking up to the farmer's market to buy fruits and have lunch at one of our favorite taquerias. I was still a bit tired during the walk home but managed it without wimping out and catching the bus, heh.

Anything else to report...? No, not really. Although I need to talk with my coworker this week to plan out their cat-sitting for us. We're letting them stay over while this happens so that's fine, but I'll need to make sure everything is good to go, they get paid, and have some extra keys made for them to use during that time.

Hope everyone has a good week!

Current Mood: lazy
Current Location: Spare Oom
Current Music: The Cure, 'Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me'

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Drunken Owls and Other Delights

Who am I, and what have I done with me?

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I suppose I should write, shouldn't I? And maybe read something else?

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