Drunken Owls and Other Delights

It's been a week and let's see what we can update with...

--A and I drove up to Corte Madera yesterday so she could get her flu shot (I got mine at Kaiser on Wednesday). Come to find out the Rite Aid we went to just shrugged at the voucher ('whatever, we just bill KP") so it was kind of a nonsense drive, but it ended up being quite enjoyable! The open-air mall has some fancy stores and a really great food court (we had extremely messy wraps for lunch), plus we got to do some minor grocery shopping at the Safeway there. We also maybe spent a ridiculous amount of money on books, not that we need them, heh. But I bought the Beatles Get Back book, which was high up on my shopping list! Woo! And to top it all off, we filled the tank at the super cheap Arco just off the highway that's at least sixty cents cheaper than everywhere else!

--Speaking of Beatles, I've heard the new Let It Be super deluxe box and while it's a bit repetitive, it's kind of interesting. As I'd said to A after I'd streamed it the other day: it's what you'd think it would sound like if you had a really neat idea but did absolutely none of the homework for it and didn't really care about it from the start. It's definitely a half-assed shambles and I maintain they should have taken a year or three off and gotten their personal shit together instead of bulldozing through like always, but it's not a terrible box set. It's definitely got some great moments, and I'm hearing that the Peter Jackson documentary will make it make a lot more sense.

--I think I've finally gotten to the point with Projects A and B where I feel confident with them, where I feel a connection and that I believe they can work. Project B was a little touch and go there for a while but once I got past my concerns (mainly that I've never written in this kind of setting before to such an extent) it all started working out. That, and I feel confident that I'll be able to fix the wonky clunky parts in revision with minimum fuss. What of Project C, though? Good question. Still feeling nervous about it, but not in a hopeless way. It's the wonkiest of the three and I purposely have no mental deadline for it, so I'm letting that one take its own sweet time to ripen.

--I think that stupid back twitch is FINALLY gone! It might still sneak up from time to time as a phantom "hey remember me" if I move the wrong way, but I'm glad it's gone. I'm pretty sure it was the oblique muscle on my right side due to absolutely terrible posture (*ahem* pushes self out of a lurching hunch AGAIN while typing this *ahem*). It's a matter of me making sure I sit and lie down properly.

--Oh! We're going to the opera this coming Friday! It'll be the first one we've gone to since before the pandemic kicked in, so I'm quite happy about that! And the Friday after that is Outside Lands! We're both a bit nervous about that given all the nonsense, but we'll be well masked and prepared. Woo!


Other than that, not much else to report! Hope everyone has a good week!