Beloved has to pick up their Tesla today. Which means I am tasked with driving them to the train in possibly a very few short minutes.
The good news for you is that my Instant is already done. Yay. Out soon on all good social media platforms.
I just gotta drive first.
The house is a mess. I have not done a lot of maintenance there. Mayhem insists that driving to the local 7-11 is going to up his hours, but I refuse point blank to do any driving lessons less than half an hour. I know damn well he only wants to get crap junk food without being in the summer heat for the time it takes to walk there and back.
I have procrastinated now for a very long time so I
Read more »I've been awake since half-past ten in the previous night. I have a story to write and likely a nap to catch up on. Mostly because I've been conscious for eight hours and will likely be awake for more than a few more.
Because staying focussed is not my strongest point on a Sunday morning.
I should pay some attention to what I should be doing instead of getting distracted by shiny things on the interwebs.
Let's get on with this.
Read more »Mayhem doesn't have to work today, so that leaves a day-long time window open. Yay! Which of course means that I'm destined for the outskirts of Logan to visit MeMum and sort out her tech nonsense.
I knew I'd have to wake up really early in the AM in order to have my day job done today, so being awake at quarter to four is no big deal for me.
For those of you wondering about the prawns - we did pack
Read more »Mayhem's back to work today, and I am the designated driver. Tomorrow, I head off to MeMum's to advise new computer nonsense and attempt to save her files after her last compy got nuked.
I am definitely advising a portable drive so any further file nuking can be avoided.
It's almost ten o'clock. What I need to do is get some street-plausible clothing on and maybe actually focus on my work instead of indulging in play.
Sooner started, sooner done, blablabla.
Read more »So it was revealed that $100 purchased about three kilos of prawns, and three kilos of ice. Fortunately, that was enough HUGE tiger prawns to sate six people so we're fine. There was even enough left over to vac-pack for snacking purposes. Whee.
We still have oodles and boodles of food. I always fret about not having enough for the Yule feast, and I inevitably end up having WAY too much to see us through to New Years'.
My challenge is to
Read more »Merry Christmas, Chag Sameach [correct me if I'm wrong and, if you can, send me an audio file teaching me how to say it properly], and while we're at it, I'd like to know the appropriate greetings for Ramadan and Kwanzaa please. Inclusivity is important.
May the atheists have a fun Festivus, and anyone for whom this is not a day of feasting, insanity, and terrible arguments in the name of family togetherness - have a good day off.
And finally, for
Read more »It's Christmas Eve, I woke up just minutes into it. Mostly because I made myself nauseated through other shenanigans.
We got our six kilos of prawns. We have a HUGE hunk of ham. We have enough veg and snackables to overload a horse, and possibly enough drinks to float it away downstream.
Good news - it's been raining! It's been raining very lightly, but it's been raining. That's taken a lot of heat out of the days. A blessing for anyone who
Read more »It's the day for laying in supplies, storage of same, and unfucking the house without paid assistance.
If I can convince the family to do some of the storage and unfucking, I might be ahead of the game. Stop laughing at me in that tone of voice.
It's almost 6AM. I am going to try for the Instant before I go rocketting off on my assorted adventures.
I already know I'm coming home with six kilos of prawns and a big ol'
Read more »I watched Toastyhat animate in the wee smol hours again, so already tired! Yay! I'm also out of coconut milk and should get myself a fresh supply of coconut milk and I have NO idea if Beloved is down for more shopping so close to Crimbolio.
Getting supplies close to Xmas is HELL. Candy-cane coloured, mint-flavoured, ho-ho-HELL.
I do try to have all possible supplies to stay the hell out of the shops at that time of year, but... not always possible.
Read more »I need to make a list. Checking it twice is not extremely mandatory, but you never know with these things.
Laying in pre-yule supplies during the last days before yule is ALWAYS some degree of fun. I am scarred for life from that one shopping trip where EVERY SINGLE SHOP was playing EVERY SINGLE VERSION EVER of The Little Drummer Boy.
When I die, I'm skipping Hell. I've already been there.
Anyway, most of the family wants money, and part of my
Read more »So. We have the last household unfuckening of the year. Shortly before the biggest, messy week of the year.
Beloved is allegedly going to get their Tesla before Christmas. That's in less than five days, including today. Stir in a high chance of nothing being done on Christmas Eve and there's like three days for anything to happen, and I don't give odds for the weekend.
So... Today. Or Monday. Fun.
I have a new episode of TAZ:Graduation to listen to,
Read more »I just finished a stream where I recorded five stories and wrote a piece of music. I'm doing well. Tomorrow, I publish another episode of Inter-Mission for my potentially-two listeners.
It starts with one. It grows from there. Sooner or later, someone is going to do animations featuring their favourite bits.
Tuesday, I shall be editing a new episode of Inter-Mission, and since I'll probably be rat-faced by Thursday, I might not stream at all. It's pretty close to Xmas by then.
Read more »Five seconds after I packed up my paints and put all my mini-painting shit away... Mayhem announced that he wanted to learn mini painting. We've gone the Cheapshit Route(tm) for practice dudes and bought a bunch of plastic army dudes.
We shall be painting them in the early morning so I don't have coffee-shakes(tm).
...speaking of coffee shakes, I should go get my meds and caffeine.
I should also get a rattle on with my writing. It's half-past nine. I
Read more »I finished painting the Kobold and you can see a turn-around here Yes, that is my palm and paint-stains you see there. Kobold minis are TINY as FUCK, peeps.
But I'm done painting minis, until such time as (a) I get my Bugbear printed, (b) Mayhem gets his own minis and wants colours on them, or (c) someone PAYS me [12/hour plus cost of paint pots beyond my extant colours. Special rates for Small creatures. As in, they're going to cost
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