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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 Palmer and a recent political advert for Clive Palmer's United Australia Party for and about Clive Palmer... today's rant is in the bag. I might even make a meme about it.

Tentative title: The Tyranny of Your Freedoms

I now have a humidifier for my desk and an OPEP device that is SUPER EFFECTIVE at shifting the nasty out of my lungs. Thanks to that, I can now confirm that I shall need to speak to my quack about antibiotics. Yayyyy... ::gritted-teeth emoji::

MORE firkin medical expenses. Just what I didn't need on top of everything else.

"Everything else" being three budget hits in a row [exploding hot water system, cat dental, dead lappy] PLUS a looming fine from the local council if I don't get the yard under control. And Beloved so very helpfully leaving that search on my already stressed shoulders. Thanks love. I know you have work and all, but Powers damnit... A little bit of help would be nice.

MeMum, on a pension, is sending me cashola because of this horseshit. It won't help pay off the disaster because everything there is digital, but it will help pay for frivolities like... FOOD. I've scraped my hoards down already and gathered as much as I can but it's not yet enough to cover the looming disaster-in-progress.

I'm not looking at the news today. I have enough to worry about.

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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Challenge #03311-I023: Eggshell Crack'd

Why did this happen to Lillian? Why did she have to suffer? Why couldn't we tell her the TRUTH? These were things that went through the priest's and the acolyte's heads. But the Old One had told them. The girl had been half-god long before she "died", her mortal self burning away when the mana took over. The world was changing, they had to be able to move the spring to new safe places when the dark magi came. She was the

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Sunday, Day 0, Shenanigans

Plague news:

  • 15 050 new cases
  • 84 807 total active cases
  • 884 hospitalisations
  • 52 in the ICU
  • 23 deaths
  • 8 096 total cases in First Nations People

Vax news:

  • 335 954 national doses
  • 58 148 Qld doses
  • 8 480 ACT doses
  • 100 781 NSW doses
  • 2 988 NT doses
  • 24 409 SA doses
  • 6 930 Tas doses
  • 92 697 Vic doses
  • 41 521 WA doses

Two of those Qld doses are myself and my Beloved. That's right! We've had our boosters. Huzzah.

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Challenge #03310-I022: What Worries Most

Lilicoon talks to her therapist about the request for a date by someone she cares for quite a bit, and her fear and confusion because of it.

https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-03194-h285-stumbling-blind -- Anon Guest

Lilicoon flexed her fingers in her current crochet piece. It was an instinctual comfort motion from the feline side of her genetics, and therefore unstoppable. Having something soft to flex her new hands in was a boon for her.

"I know that Human Jay is one

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Saturday, Day 0, FEAST!

Plague news:

  • 16 031 new cases
  • 86 036 total active cases
  • 855 hospitalisations
  • 54 in the ICU
  • 13 new deaths
  • 7 460 total cases in First Nations people

Vax news:

  • 353 190 national doses
  • 62 641 Qld doses
  • 9 528 ACT doses
  • 103 345 NSW doses
  • 3 132 NT doses
  • 26 67 SA doses
  • 6 862 Tas doses
  • 94 720 Vic doses
  • 46 315 WA doses

I am planning to do Nothing today and thoroughly enjoy it. Lots of carbs, maybe a

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Challenge #03309-I021: A Creeping Affection

She viewed him as a friend, though at first he was just an annoyance. She saw he had learned so much and was willing to open his mind, and not just act like all the other human men she'd known before the Wish sent her here. Maybe, one day, they could become best friends, for in her view he was starting to feel more like having a lunkhead, if but a very kind one, of a brother, little by little. Maybe, one

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Challenge #03308-I020: Repaid in Full

Though he never knew how many lived there, he'd saved well over 500 lives. Saving that small village by discovering a cure for a plague had become his deepest desire. He'd saved them not because Wraithvine had required him to save lives as penance for his crimes, but because looking into the eyes of the sick children, he swore to every god that would listen he'd rather die than see these people suffer, Wraithvine's requirement bedamned! Cold irony, the cure didn't work

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Friday, Day 0, Playing Catch-up

Plague news:

  • 16 812 new cases
  • 91 306 total active cases
  • 850 hospitalisations
  • 48 in the ICU
  • 9 deaths
  • 6 959 total cases in First Nations people

Vax news:

  • 332 808 national doses
  • 61 827 Qld doses
  • 8 281 ACT doses
  • 102 516 NSW doses
  • 3 606 NT doses
  • 24 929 SA doses
  • 8 471 Tas doses
  • 79 496 Vic doses
  • 43 682 WA doses

I didn't get as much done as I wanted to, yesterday. Because parcel arrival, Beloved and I

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Challenge #03307-I019: The Sword Often Loses

The man was a reluctant killer. Forced by his lord to slay any his lord demanded lest his own family be slain. He was sent after an Elf that, once he heard the name, knew that meant he would never see his family again. Not in this world at least. But the Elf, the mage, was merciful. In swearing to save the man's family, the man swore to find the families of those he had slain, and make sure those families were

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Challenge #03306-I018: The Great Leveler

The Humans are dead. A futile effort to go against the almighty. Among the field of the fallen, one rose among the dead. Cloaked in black, it barely had any strength to stand. A barrage of concentrated plasma hit it dead on, as the dust settled, the only thing the barrage did was knock off its hood. It was no human, it lacked any flesh. It was just bones and in its desolate eyes was hazy blue flame. Its jaw opened, spilling

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Thursday, Day 0, Procrastination

Plague news:

  • 19 932 new cases
  • 89 638 total active cases
  • 835 hospitalisations
  • 52 in the ICU
  • and 11 new deaths
  • 6 318 total cases in First Nations people

Vax news:

  • 321 959 national doses
  • 60 746 Qld doses
  • 9 090 ACT doses
  • 101 572 NSW doses
  • 3 166 NT doses
  • 23 491 SA doses
  • 6 370 Tas doses
  • 76 918 Vic doses
  • 40 606 WA doses

I have just today realised that I've skipped out on editing my novel or my

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