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So things will be sort of back to normal next week, as the head bookkeeper is back from his own vacation. I didn't mind filling in as it was all early shifts, but waking up at 4:15am several days in a row did kind of wear me out. This coming week I've been given a few earlyish shifts that hint that I'll be working the dairy upstock shifts again on Tuesday through Thursday, so I can't complain. This means I can wake up at a more normal 6am for the next few days and catch up on some much-needed sleep.

Meanwhile, I'm finally prepping for more of my end-of-year posts here and elsewhere. I'll be starting the year end music reviews for Walk in Silence on Tuesday which should finish off the day after Christmas, leaving the last entry of the year as a best-of list and looking-ahead sort of thing. As for Welcome to Bridgetown, I'm not entirely sure what I'll be posting there though the last few of the year will be very similar in its looking back/looking forward theme.

What do I have planned for 2025? Good question. A few personal things and a few book releases for starters! We shall see...

Current Mood: calm
Current Location: Spare Oom

Tomorrow will be seven days in a row that I'm opening the shop at 6am, six of which I had to actually be there at 5:30, and oh yeah also there's a heating unit problem there so the store has been a brisk 45 degrees the entire time, so yeah I am a bit loopy and overtired right now, why do you ask?

Anyhoo -- things are going as normal for the last couple weeks of the year. I'm taking it easy and not pushing myself with the writing other than with the blogs. I am, of course, thinking about how I'm going to approach the new year with the various projects I have in mind. If you've been reading my latest entries at Welcome to Bridgetown, then you'll have heard that my main project for 2023 will be the fourth Mendaihu Universe book, along with doing some 'remastering' of the original trilogy (more on that at a later time). I'm really looking forward to returning to this particular world again!

Other than that...not much to report other than that I REALLY need sleep right now...

Current Mood: exhausted
Current Location: Spare Oom

...Not too much? Just dealing day to day, really. The Current Day Job has its ups and downs. One of the current downs being a not-busy-but-always-constant flow of customers that never seems to end. It's not the volume that's exhausting, it's the lack of let-up. [There's also the old Russian lady that tries to haggle prices (which, y'know, is not something you can't really do in a grocery store chain) with us every time she comes in. She cornered one of my coworkers for a good twenty minutes over the price of FIVE PEACHES the other day.]

Both Welcome to Bridgetown and Walk in Silence are on semi-hiatus for this month. For WtBT I'm posting outtakes and microfiction (and maybe some not-yet-self-published stuff) for a while. My announcement for that went over pretty well with those who follow me there, so we shall see where it goes. As for WiS, I have a Future Plan for it. I've been wanting to shake that one up for a while now, as I'll be honest, I've been phoning that one in for quite a while now. And as for the current WIPs, they're going. Slowly, but they're going.

Just dealing day to day.

Current Mood: relaxed
Current Location: Spare Oom
Current Music: Porridge Radio, 'Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky'

Ah yes. I was distracted yesterday (a pleasant walk in GGP's botanical garden, a drive to the garden center, laundry and so on) and completely forgot to post something here.

Also slightly nervous and distracted due to the fact that I'm running a scan on my external hard drive that contains my entire mp3 library in hopes that I can figure out why it decides to randomly go into sleep mode even when I'm in the middle of using it. I'm not *too* nervous, as I have it all (I hope!!) backed up on another external, but I'd rather not lose it just the same, thankyouverymuch. It's taking forever to finish because there's a LOT of mp3s to scan for issues and/or corruption. I had it running overnight and it's *just* nearing the finish of the initial scan as we speak. [Edit: it's now doing a slightly different deep scan of empty sectors and I'm not entirely sure how long *that* will take...] In the meantime it's made the entire drive inaccessible so it can do its thing. Hopefully there aren't any major issues... *fret fret*

Meanwhile, last week I began a slightly different approach with my writing (I go into it a bit more here at Welcome to Bridgetown) and it seems to be working, so I'm going to continue with this process and see how it plays out. I'm doing the work in smaller manageable chunks and narrowing the focus of the work in front of me in the hopes that I can process it all a lot easier. It seems to have cleared the view a bit, which is good.

Oh -- I should probably add that I've been having far too much fun sketching out a storyboard for Diwa & Kaffi!! They're rough thumbnails for the most part, but they're helping me get better at my art, which was the main goal in the first place! One of these days I'll post them up on the WTBT blog.

What else...we got a new Christmas tree? That was my doing, really. Our old one is fine but kind of looking a bit threadbare. The new one is a four-footer (the old one is a much shorter one made for a tabletop) so I'll have to plan out where to put it. The plus side is that I can hang a lot more stuff on it! Yay! Maybe I should revive my old habit of putting on a Christmas album while decorating....

Hope everyone has a good week!

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

Well! Here I am, posting on another Sunday evening, pleasantly surprised that I've kept to my new whiteboard schedule for the most part! Welcome to Bridgetown and Walk in Silence are both getting updated, I've been getting some practice on my guitars, and I've even been getting some drawing done! (I missed one day on the art, but that's okay, it was Friday and I was distracted by all the New Music Releases. Heh.)

The best part is that I've successfully kicked off the prep work for the New Project, which I've codenamed Theadia. It's the waystation story that I've mentioned in the past, and I've been spending the week writing out some world building ideas and rules using my daily words over at 750. I'm of course a little nervous because I don't want to mess it up, especially considering how successful the process of writing Diwa & Kaffi was once I figured it all out. I just want to make sure this one is just as successful, because I really love the idea. Especially considering I'd unexpectedly come up with a fantastic plot idea to run with!

My long term plan is to heighten the focus on my creativity. I don't know where it will lead me, but I've got the time and the drive to do it, and I have absolutely no reason not to follow through now. I know I've been my own worst enemy in the past -- y'know, Best Laid Plans versus Follow-Through and all that -- but this time I want to prove to myself that I can make this happen. I did it before to some degree when I prepped and self-pubbed the trilogy, doing everything on my own, so it's really a matter of self-belief and self-confidence. And now that I've let myself have more of that lately, there's no reason I can't do it again.

Here's to hoping...!

Current Mood: determined
Current Location: Spare Oom

It's been a busy three days of 2015 so far, in a very good way. Keeping up with the daily words, prepared work for the Blogging the Beatles ebook project, posted at my WordPress blogs like a madman, and I even managed to get some guitar practice in there. Not a bad start, all told.

I already have my "this is due" whiteboard list--for instance, I have a Welcome to Bridgetown post due today--so I already have it hanging over my head. My instinctual response is "but I don't wanna". The trick for me for overcoming that? Doing it anyway, even if it's purely out of being a stubborn contrarian. Because I know for a fact that if I don't work on it and spend my evening goofing off on YouTube or something, I'll climb into bed feeling guilty and annoyed with myself for wasting time. In short: 'just STFU and do it already' seems to be my way of working on projects. Mind you, it's not the only way I'm getting myself to get things done, but I know enough to utilize it when necessary.

Been a relaxing and lazy weekend here...we did a bit of shopping yesterday, including heading over to the Haight to spend mumbletymumble dollars at Amoeba. Amanda found many sweet deals in the dvd section, and I made a significant dent in the dollar bins looking for (and finding!) exactly what I was looking for! Yay! Oh--and in the dvd section I found a used copy of the Space Above and Beyond box set--I've been meaning to pick that up for ages, so I'm quite happy that I finally own it! It's been ages since I've watched it, so I'll need to set aside time to rewatch.

Not too much on tap for today, other than my daily words, a WtBT post, and football games. Sushi down the street may be involved at some point, we'll see. Going to take it easy and enjoy the weekend while it's still here!

Current Mood: relaxed
Current Location: @home
Current Music: Bengals/Colts game

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