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Monday, Day 0, Long day

Plague news:

  • 8 580 new cases
  • 64 226 total active cases
  • 745 hospitalisations
  • 41 in the ICU
  • 0 new deaths
  • 12 718 total cases in First Nations people

Vax news:

  • 174 045 national doses
  • 25 580 Qld doses
  • 4 626 ACT doses
  • 51 406 NSW doses
  • 1 231 NT doses [thin ice, peeps!]
  • 11 903 SA doses
  • 4 670 Tas doses
  • 50 285 Vic doses
  • 24 244 WA doses

Today is more or less a day of rest. My challenge is to stay awake past 4PM because I've already been awake since 9:30 the previous night.

My challenge is also to keep Miss Chaos on track because remote learning starts today.

Beloved's meds are still making her brain fuzzy. I did ask her to help me out with stuff the previous evening, but she got derailed by a free-roaming Mayhem. On the plus side, Mayhem is now applying for apprenticeships in electronics assembly and maintenance so cool for him.

IF I get any braining done today, it is counted as pure bonus.

Meanwhile, in the rest of the world:

  • Tennis drama
  • ScoMo's approval rating plummets. Who could have known that his inaction would have consequences?
  • Country spends $45BILLION to move their capital onto dryer land
  • Mother threw child to the bears
  • NOW some Premiers go off at Antivaxxers
  • Artists versus Joe Rogan
  • Randy Andy attempts to throw Her Majesty under the bus
  • One quarter of a million monarch butterflies after the previous years' 2K

And now - storytime.

Challenge #03318-I030: A Dangerously Bold Sparkling White

An alcohol maker of great renown was kind and warm. They were also insanely skilled with their craft, being able to make any kind of drink imaginable, and without any use of magic at all. Of course, unfortunately, their reputation got around, so they did, sometimes, have to deal with very arrogant individuals demanding to know their secrets, demanding that they work for only one person or another and "not to share these drinks with the peasantry for they did not deserve

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Sunday, Day 0, Dungeones!

Plague news:

  • 8 580 new cases
  • 64 226 total active cases
  • 745 hospitalisations
  • 41 in the ICU
  • 25 new deaths
  • 12 718 total cases in First Nations people

Vax news:

  • 308 821 national doses
  • 54 073 Qld doses
  • 7 393 ACT doses
  • 99 719 NSW doses
  • 2 714 NT doses
  • 20 750 SA doses
  • 4 321 Tas doses
  • 78 529 Vic doses
  • 41 322 WA doses

My battle today is to stay awake until 4PM at which time, I need to sleep

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Challenge #03317-I029: Blessing? You Mispronounced 'Curse'

Do you really want to fight and kill to gain immortality? Did you really just barge into my home demanding I remove your mortality and make you as immortal as I? Well, you're in luck, I'm feeling particularly generous today. No I'm not going to make you immortal, idiot, put away your blade. I AM going to let you look into the mirror that will show you your entire life, from your birth, to your future as an immortal. And, if you

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Saturday, Day 0, Fic o' the Week

Plague news:

  • 9 974 new cases
  • 66 068 total active cases
  • 818 hospitalisations
  • 54 in the ICU
  • 18 new deaths
  • 11 714 total cases in First Nations people

Vax news:

  • 305 665 national doses
  • 55 271 Qld doses
  • 8 175 ACT doses
  • 89 118 NSW doses
  • 2 499 NT doses
  • 21 747 SA doses
  • 5 035 Tas doses
  • 81 476 Vic doses
  • 42 344 WA doses

Today's the day I read the Fic o' the Week to my stream, so congrats to

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Challenge #03316-I028: The Difficult Concept of Free

The Phlorans heard a distress call, a actual distress call as a lifepod was shooting through the atmosphere from a ship that had been badly damaged from a micrometeoroid that hit what was, essentially, a ship made of the proverbial "chicken wire and string". They opened the pod to find an injured individual and managed, at least, to keep them healthy with printed foods, and clean water, but due to solar storms, could not signal out for at least a week or

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Friday, Day 0, Book Launch

Plague news:

  • 11 600 new cases
  • 69 350 total active cases
  • 829 hospitalisations
  • 48 in the ICU
  • 15 more deaths
  • 11 092 total cases in First Nations people

Vax news:

  • 82 709 national doses
  • 14 902 Qld doses
  • 4 368 ACT doses
  • 11 271 NSW doses
  • 747 NT doses [SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!]
  • 7 413 SA doses
  • 2 582 Tas doses
  • 29 237 Vic doses
  • 12 189 WA doses

Northern Territory is never never going to catch up with the rest of the

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Challenge #03315-I027: Do Better...

Wraithvine and the ones with them are called back to Lower Petraine. The runner had used scrying, along with a signal that this was immensely urgent, to let everyone know they were coming. Out of breath, especially using the swiftness spell to get to the gentle mage, along with Vee and everyone with them, hurried back to the village. Gentle Anthe was in hospice, age had caught up with her and she'd not long left. But, she wanted to see her grandchild

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Thursday, Day 0, Shenanigans?

Plague news:

  • 13 511 new cases
  • 73 266 total active cases
  • 889 hospitalisations
  • 47 in the ICU
  • 9 new deaths
  • 10 545 total cases in first nations people

Vax news:

  • 323 879 national doses
  • 56 550 Qld doses
  • 9 689 ACT doses
  • 91 663 NSW doses
  • 2 749 NT doses
  • 24 555 SA doses
  • 6 534 Tas doses
  • 89 873 Vic doses
  • 42 266 WA doses

I have finished editing my anthology, so my next order of business is creating a new

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Challenge #03314-I026: Barge Versus Coracle

They were one of the worst Knomiras. Any time people said no to them, they immediately demanded to see the higher ups. No one was going to stop them from getting what THEY wanted! It was their way, or the highway! Then there was an accident, they demanded THEY be treated first! They shoved the person that they didn't even see, someone smaller than them out of the life pod and forced their way in. The person, a Havenworlder child, scrambled in,

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Wednesday, Day 0, Wordpress

Plague news:

  • 9 546 new cases
  • 76 417 total active cases
  • 928 hospitalisations
  • 51 in the ICU
  • 11 more deaths
  • 9 408 total cases in First Nations people

...at least some numbers are going down.

Vax news:

  • 322 467 national doses
  • 52 218 Qld doses
  • 9 497 ACT doses
  • 99 440 NSW doses
  • 2 574 NT doses [did they hear me? o_O]
  • 22 671 SA doses
  • 6 900 Tas doses
  • 87 779 Vic doses
  • 41 388 WA doses

Thanks to Clive

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Challenge #03313-I025: Cold Stone Inn

It's young Venin who points out the blunt obvious to these two adults, Kevin's got that bow that shoots those magic arrows, and the last time he experimented with it, he made the equivalent of a Hero's Feast. Did they forget as long as he's there with the bow, they'll never go hungry?

https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-03215-h306-why-didnt-you-say

https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-03185-h276-divine-intervention -- Anon Guest

The good berries were filling, for their tiny size. One argument resolved and bellies

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Tuesday, Day 0, Patreon

Plague news:

  • 10 212 new cases
  • 84 164 total active cases
  • 878 hospitalisations
  • 50 in the ICU
  • 13 more deaths
  • 9 087 total cases in First Nations people

Vax news:

  • 121 177 national doses
  • 19 348 Qld doses
  • 4 331 ACT doses
  • 25 350 NSW doses
  • 927 NT doses [SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!]
  • 10 751 SA doses
  • 5 305 Tas doses
  • 39 994 Vic doses
  • 15 171 WA doses

I say shame on the Northern Territory because they have been the most reluctant

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Challenge #03312-I024: Heart of Silicon

Humans study their past and how they viewed AI. How they had the fear of AI both being the ultimate slave where humans could live for the rest of eternity in leisure, and being the ultimate enemy, that would destroy all of human-kind brutally. And how the AI has shown to be neither, but instead, another kind of intelligent being that they needed to learn to understand. -- Anon Guest

Humans probably devote too much time to pondering how their own creations

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Monday, Day 0, Long Monday

Plague news:

  • 11 957 new cases
  • 85 112 total active cases
  • 863 hospitalisations
  • 47 in the ICU
  • 10 new deaths
  • 8 606 total cases in first nations' people

It's Long Monday, I really don't feel like unriddling an Excell spreadsheet -__- And technically, it's Long Sunday. Everything and it's cousin conspired to keep me awake when I was trying to sleep, yesterday afternoon.

Believe me I am getting some sleep today or I may yet strangle something.

IF I get anything

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