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Oh hi there! I'm actually on time for once. No major weekend plans this time out, we just did a four-plus mile walk up Cabrillo to Arguello and back on Saturday, and today was a Lazy Day with laundrifying and a short walk up to CVS for a bit of stocking up on things. 

It being November, big props to anyone doing NaNoWriMo this year! What with 2020 being the weirdass year that it's been, I'm sure some will skip it while others may use it as an outlet. Cheers to those brave enough to participate!  I of course have given up on even attempting it, even this year considering my lack of employment, as I've already proven to myself that I just don't have the mindset for it.

What I'd like to do this month, however, is maybe look into some of the free online courses that some schools have been making available. One of my online friends pointed me towards this particular Rolling Stone article that talks about free courses from music schools, so that should keep me occupied for a bit. Not sure if it'll get me anywhere, but it's music-related, so at least it'll keep my interest!

Meanwhile, I'm happy to say that I managed to get an appointment later this month to drop off books at the Friends of SF Public Library warehouse down in the Mission (who'd've thunk that so many San Franciscans want to purge their book shelves after months in lockdown?), and I've just heard that the Goodwill I like using down in the Marina is FINALLY accepting donations again! Which means that sometime this week I'll go over during an odd hour and get rid of all this crap I've been staring at for the last six months. Yay clean floors again!

As for the writing...I'm kind of banging up against a wall with Theadia, but I'm making up for that by working on a few secondary projects in the interim just to keep active. It's frustrating because this is one of those "great idea in search of a stronger plot" ideas I've come up with, so I'm trying to look at it from different angles. This is how I was able to work past problems with the last three novels and hasn't failed me yet, so we'll see where it goes.

Anything else...? Not that I can think of. Just keeping busy and moving forward the best I can.

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It's Sunday afternoon and most of the house errands are done. We walked up to the other end of Clement to stop at the garden store, the Ace and then check out the farmer's market, pick up some pork buns for lunch, then walked back, totaling just over three miles. We're understandably tired now, but I ended up doing the laundry anyway!

Speaking of which, someone spilled what I think is laundry detergent three days ago and no one has cleaned it up yet, so instead of doing my usual well I'd better clean it up BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE EFFING WILL, I decided to be a bit catty and post a sign above it: "Come on, people...this spill has been here for THREE DAYS. Didn't your parents teach you to clean up after yourself??"  We'll see how long it lasts. And yes, I plan on going down there and updating the sign as the days go on.

ANYWAY! Not too much else going on. Saturday was a shopping day and we were indeed happy that pretty much every person we saw at the Target and Home Depot had the masks on and were keeping a decent distance. We bought a few things including carpet tape in hopes that our throw rugs will finally stop migrating of their own accord (our big rug under the kitchen table seems to move significantly which is a weird thing and I have no idea how it happens...I'll be taping that one down later this week).

I'm still doing fine with the whiteboard schedule, either hitting all the daily projects before A is done working for the day, or making up for it the next day. I'm averaging about 300 - 500 words a day for Theadia, which is pretty good for starters. I'm even getting some poetry done! Woot!

So...any plans for the week? A few, including the carpet taping. I'm gonna see if I can get some of these Goodwill donations out of Spare Oom because I am REALLY sick of looking at them and would love to have some floor space back! And I'm also thrilled to discover that the Friends of SF Library is taking book donations again, so those can go as well once I'm able to get an opening for it! [Side note: One of the reasons I wanted to clear out that space is because that will then give me room to go into Spare Oom closet and start weeding out the CDs that are there, so I can start selling them at Amoeba. That was one of my plans from earlier this year before the 'rona scuppered it.]


Hope everyone has a good week! :)

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