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Thoughts, stories and ideas.

Friday, Completions and PLNs

I've finished the second story in the Butcher's Book and, since there's only two leafs of book remaining, I'm letting it lie. I've photographed all the pages for transcription and I'll be putting those hand-written words into a document at some point.

I also have to clean the catio.

And I need to start bread tomorrow... but I already volunteered to be the tailwalker at parkrun. The good news is that I don't have to be up early on Sunday. I might have to get Mayhem to tag in because I do need to get to bed early on Sunday night.

Aaaaannnnnnd I had plns to post my oldest story read on TubeTube. But I have to record an outro bit and I have a cyclone fucking headache this morning. Light sensitivity and PAIN are my companions as I write.

Yes, I have taken painkillers. I'm still waiting for them to kick in.

At least I can record a fresh story for Peertube. Get that going while I'm waiting for my other nonsense to coalesce.

I'll be working on the least painful stuff first.

Tuesday, Patreon and Shopping PLNs

I shall be going on a Leyland's Tour including Bunnings because that's apparently the only place one can get razor blades without attached tons of plastic.

Weird that I have to get bread supplies from a hardware place.

Weird that that's where someone can get safety razor blades any more. They used to be a lot more everywhere. [My old fart is showing]

Fingers crossed that I can get all the nonsense we need and not run out of money. The kids

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Thursday, Recording Day!

Sixty-eight chapters remain to be written. I have another batch of chapters to read for Adorable. I have another short story to read for the storytime videos. I have a system, now. Which is good.

  1. Record the story
  2. Send a copy to Adorable
  3. I edit most of the video in OpenShot
  4. I get the subtitle file from Adorable
  5. I move the edited video to Kdenlive and tweak the subtitles there

Now to get it to a routine. Once I have that, I'll

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Challenge #04537-L153: Please Don't Make Me Laugh

They say laughter is the best medicine, but that's not quite true. It's just a good aid to proper care. -- Anon Guest

Let me get this into your head - laughter is not always the best medicine. Just try doing it when your next breath is being debated by committee. Metaphorically, of course. It's just as difficult to breathe when it feels like you're allergic to air.

I'll spare you the sordid details of abundant mucous generation and leave you with

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Monday, Crappy Time Ahead

I could not get to sleep last night. ALL. Fucking. NIGHT.

Today is going to SUUUUUUCK...

I'll be recording a story for the videos, editing and posting an older story for TubeTube, and talking to my fellow writers in the Archives.

According to my internet investigations, the best place to get Rona jabs is Priceline Pharmacy, so that's where I'll be calling tomorrow before I stop by. I'll even ask the kids to get their refresher needle too.

My primary focus is

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Challenge #04536-L152: Desperate Motivations

To get to where they are needed, they must travel through the maelstrom of lightening, heavy rains, winds, ... and worse. -- Anon Guest

The world was full of scars like this. If 'scar' could apply to an eternal cyclone guaranteed to repel travelers from attempting to breach it. In the middle, in the eye of that permanent storm, was the floating island of Aljanna. A paradise lost to most of the mortal world.

Legend held that they were safeguarding a mighty weapon.

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Sunday, Bread and Nonsense

My time manglement skills are in full "flower" today. I did get the dough prepped with the help of Mayhem for the last fold and tucking away in the fridge.

I have calculated that it takes me around 20 hours to make bread from 'go' to 'whoah'. That's not counting the prep and bumbling about time so it probably is closer to 22 hours. No wonder it takes me two freaking days to have lovely golden butt loaves.

I should be able

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Challenge #04535-L151: Blown Back

The first hundred times didn't work out so good, but this time it will. -- Anon Guest

If at first you don't succeed... the saying goes. Sometimes, try, try, and try again, is not the ideal solution. It's that kind of philosophy that results in history's echoes.

Again and again, those who rise to power seek to create their ideal society by forcing the populace to adhere to rigid rules or face harsh punishment. Again and again, the populace rebels and the

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Saturday, Parkrun and Learning Journey

I have to admit, AI is here to stay. But that doesn't mean I'm going to use it very much. It's never doing my writing or art for me.

Beloved uses it for coding and I've been shown how terrifyingly good it is at doing that. And if I want Pseuducku to be playable this decade... I'll have to do that.

I still don't know how ethical it is, but... it's here to stay. If Beloved trusts it to write code, I

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Challenge #04534-L150: Ameliorative Measures

They said the eclipse would only last minutes. It's been a century. -- Anon Guest

We know the sun is still there. We can see its corona around the shadow of the moon. We're lucky that we have the technology to grow crops without sunlight. We're very lucky that our energy sources aren't causing more problems than they solved.

If this had happened half a century earlier, we would be looking to our extinction in a mere handful of years.

If it

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Challenge #04533-L149: Sweet-scented Poison

I got these new flowers today. They whisper to me, while I sleep; whisper secrets nobody can know. -- Anon Guest

They look like nice flowers, don't they? The way they gleam in the light. They're so pretty. I received them in an opalescent vase three months ago and they haven't wilted. They only need fresh water once a day. They're beautiful... and they're driving me mad.

They whisper to me whenever it's quiet. Soft words that I can barely understand. They're

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Thursday, Physio and Proceeding Apace

I almost forgot to finish off the video I made myself have due, last night. But I made myself get up and finish it, and then post it. Which means that I am free and clear to start sharing on my socials.

Next week, I record a little outro advertising my Peertube posts earlier than whenever they find them on TubeTube.

Maybe it'll work. It's worth a shot.

But my lovely followers get the Peertube video before TubeTube does.

I have to

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Challenge #04532-L148: Surprising Discovery

There is a hollow world held together by the great spider web, spun by countless arachnids led by their queen -- Anon Guest

The Impossible Nebula should not exist. Nevertheless, it exists anyway. If there's enough gasses orbiting a sun to provide air to breathe, with asteroids mixed in, it should form a planet. Or even two of them.

Humans and other Deathworlders have made a sport of navigating the entire orbital circuit without major injury.

Most of the landmarks, stopping points,

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Wednesday, Rant Due, and Other Things

I don't know what I'm going talk about this week. Maybe state of the WIP, maybe state of the Author. Maybe a little bit of both. Maybe something about my new video editing work.

I dunno, but I'm doing it first.

It's the only way I can be certain it gets done at all. I can't do a "Reasons to Love" on Murderbot: The Series because I'm still evaluating it on its own merits. I'm running out of stuff that can be

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Challenge #04531-L147: Oh, the Deprivation!

Poor, poor, pitiful me. -- Anon Guest

This had to be the worst day. She couldn't find any of her servants. There was nobody to dress her and she'd been wearing the same nightgown all day. Nobody had fed her breakfast. None of her tutors had come to give her any of her lessons, and she was well overdue for Elementary Dressage.

She had had the rudest awakening with a slave grabbing her out of her bed and setting her loose -barefoot!

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