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Long holiday weekends always mess with my head. For the last couple of days I've been thinking it's Sunday to the point that today felt like an extra Sunday tacked on at the end. Not complaining, though...we had an enjoyable Thanksgiving at home (and we still have leftovers as of this moment) with an afternoon visit up to Petaluma to visit A's parents. We did a lot of walking, a good amount of shopping (for us and for Christmas presents) and errands got done as well. We also started watching The Beatles: Get Back (no surprise there) and I will of course be blogging about it probably later in the week (no surprise there either).

I am of course feeling itchy to get back to work on my writing. I've done little except do a recent re-read of Theadia (probably the last one for a bit, until I get closer to finishing this draft) and will be doing a re-read of Queen Ophelia after that, but I'm REALLY looking forward to churning out new words again!

We're hoping to get our Christmas stuff mailed out soon so we can avoid the delays that will most likely happen, and send them Priority so they'll (hopefully) have a little more attention paid to them. It's probably going to be a bit smaller of a package this time out, but that's kind of expected. We didn't want large packages to be sitting in delivery limbo for weeks. Anyhoo! I think we've got everything on our shopping lists, we're just waiting for one or two items to complete it all.

Other than that, not too much to report! Hope everyone had a good holiday weekend!

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Outside Lands tickets for this year have been procured!  They're expensive af, but it's definitely worth it. We'll watch a few dozen bands over the course of a long weekend (and quite often we'll discover ones we hadn't heard previously!), and the food and drink are always fantastic (and local!) so it's definitely worth it.  We missed the last few due to various reasons, but this time we planned everything out so we can make it again this year. Looking forward to it!

Our friend and former roommate B has been staying with us all week (she's been going to the Gaming Developer's Conference & Expo here in the city), so it's been fun catching up with her and showing her around.  We're planning on bringing her to some of our favorite places on Saturday before she flies back east.  Here's to hoping the weather is good because I *always* bring our visiting friends and family to Twin Peaks to check out the amazing views!

Writingwise, I seem to have restarted my long-simmering Walk In Silence project.  Yes, *that* one, the one that just won't die, heh.  One of the possible updates to this that I've been thinking of was to add (gasp!) a parallel track about the pop music of the time. This is a bit of a tricky project as it's about music fandom, but it's most emphatically *not* about going to shows, insider stories, or local scenes. It's simply about being an obsessive music fan.  And how to make that interesting when all the action is essentially me sitting on my ass staring at a radio?  That's a good question. I realized the best way to do this, at least in my mind, is to show how commercial pop and rock radio and college radio played off each other in the 80s before things started blending together and becoming the commercial alt-rock of the 90s.

Also writingwise: Slowly making my way through the second chapter of Diwa and Kaffi, and building up the glossary I'll need to build up in the back.  It's an interesting mix, because there are a few alien words here and there that I made up, but there's also a handful of Tagalog phrases as well.  My plan for the latter is to make a list of these and then work with a Tagalog speaker (read: about half of my Day Job coworkers, some of whom I'm sure will be happy to assist) to ensure I'm using it all correctly.

Exercise: Oof. Yeah, I've been lazy the last few weeks, and I'm not proud of it. Then again, with B here visiting, we *did* do a bit of walking in the neighborhood on Sunday, so there's that. I also have to go into Concord TWICE next week, so that puts the kibosh on two days.  I figure April will be when I get back into the groove again.

And that's all for now...back to work for me!

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