Dear Diary

A 3803-post collection

Wednesday, Rant, Plumbing, and... My Soul?

There's another episode of my weekly thing due today, we still have plumbing to deal with, and I've just been to the physio.

Their new jackhammer hurts and stings, by the way.

As for the plumbing, we have a new magic ingredient - Dawn dish soap. According to a self-proclaimed redneck I know, it's just the thing for dealing with stubborn clogs.

As for my soul... it's apparently in peril for mocking the Powers That Be. I can't fathom where that mockery is, immediately.

It's a stretch, but this is the best I can manage to wrap my head around the issue:

Mocking the self-righteous, arrogant, and vainglorious "followers" who never once actually followed a teaching of the faith -> mocking the faithful -> mocking the faith -> mocking the originator of the faith.

It's a very long reach, but it's the best fit of the illogic that I can comprehend. Either way, if they're worried about my soul in regards a silly story that didn't even earn me one cent, they should also be worried about the souls of: the Monty Python cast and crew [The Life of Brian], Sir Terry Pratchett [Small Gods, Good Omens], and Andrew Lloyd Webber [JC Superstar]. Just to mention a few.

Eh. The longer I linger on this, the worse my anxiety gets and I don't need any more assorted horseshit in my life.

Onwards with the expected output.

Tuesday, Crammed For Time

What has two thumbs and got told off for yesterday's story? ::points thumbs at self:: This nerd. Apparently, I was mocking Jesus.

What I said about Jesus: He was "a wise teacher who worked miracles like a divinity. He explained the laws of the faith he followed and gave simpler rules for the people to follow. Chief among those were: don't hoard wealth, and be kind to each other."

I think that's accurate.

The rest of the story is about the followers

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Monday, Fuck My Life

I had everything put together. Dressed, pressed, set and ready to go on my Great Leyland's Tour...

Except the right day for that to happen in.

It's all going down TOMORROW

Derp.

All dressed up, as the song says, and nowhere to go.

I've gathered some buddies to read through ADT and taking a survey on replacements for copyrightable things.

So when it filters down - and it will filter down, there will be alterations. I might just republish on Patreon when

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Sunday, Stream Stuff

Got some further bullshit happening with the drains, but literally boiling hot water seems to be doing something to solve it. I have another trip to Bunnings in my future. Sigh.

We will get this thing unfucked for good.

But I don't need extra expense because I also have had to pay for my car and my license this week.

One last shot from the Chapter Thirteen Curse, I guess.

Fuck.

Can life stop shitting on me and my loved ones for

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Thursday, Freedom?

Well, kind'a sorta. The blockage is clear enough for the sinks to drain, though there's still bubbling coming up. I'm running sinks full of hot water down that thing on the daily in an effort to sluice any remaining blockage away.

Next sinkload is going to have some dish soap added just before I pull the plugs. Perhaps it can loosen a little more blockage.

Tried to get hold of the sleep study people. I even waited until the text said the

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Wednesday, Mor Shenanigans

Well, we managed to fix the toilet for slightly less than forty dollarydoos. Meanwhile, the hose, connectors, and bits to fix the kitchen sink are up to roughly two hundred dollarydoos even though we have to go back for a couple more parts.

It shouldn't cost more than twenty extra bucks and my own brief humilliation.

Note for future beans: Measure always. Don't assume that everything's standard and will automagically fit.

I have already mocked myself to the Promptcast crew, so take

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Monday, Quack Visit and Public Holiday

It's a public holiday, so most of my PLNs are up in the air. Gotta see the quack about getting a sleep study done so that promises to be fun. Of a sort.

All to find out if I'm getting enough oxygen while I sleep.

I'm pretty sure I am getting enough oxygen, but eliminating the causes for the issue is what we're trying to do here.

In an hour and change, I shall be taking off to the doctor to deliver

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Sunday, Stream Shenanigans

The Promptcast will be on air shortly, I'm baking the last of my bread in the midst.

The story shall happen sometime after that, but I have written a farewell to the Archive that I'll air in the next backup read.

I fully expect to get kicked off the server.

It'll hurt, but that's what clean breaks do.

And that's only slightly better than watching the Archive die of self-made starvation in the middle of a metaphorical food warehouse.

Or a slow

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Saturday, I Need Stuff

Good news: I can potentially fix my plumbing issues myself.
Bad news: I need to get more shit from Bunnings.

With "on top of the groceries" added, I'm looking at a tight week.

Draft2Digital, in their infinite wisdom, have chosen to add fees and charges to their services. So I shall be migrating all my nonsense to Barnes and Noble self-publishing services. As soon as I figure out how to do that.

It's looking like that's my only option to sell my

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Friday, Messy Unfucking PLNs

I have bread on. I have A means to unfuck the kitchen drainage on my only. Well. On my only plus Mayhem plus an online Redneck.

There's also a telehealth shrink appointment at a later hour.

...and B'Nar got rejected within 24 hours of pitching.

...yay...

I get to pitch it again tomorrow.

And I have to announce here, and later Patreon, that I am no longer participating in the Archive.

Long story short, the group has had negative growth since its

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Thursday, Last Prep

I have a submission ready to go to the Promptcast, it just needs a last pass to identify all the vocabulary words that need pronunciation guides. Then I go colour-code the singing and send that noise offski.

I have a character who singsongs to avoid stuttering, so giving a cue to the cold reader is helpful.

Good news: I am in the lead for the Promptcast wordcount tally.
Bad news: For all of the five minutes it takes for my "rival" to

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Wednesday, Rant and Nonsense

I am so close to tagging the leader in the Promptcast wordcount total. If I try really hard, I can be the leader for the glorious two minutes it takes for Zia to overtake me by 80K+

We have fun over there.

I'm focussing on the Promptcast thing this morning, then getting on with the other nonsense.

Nonsense that includes:

  • Sending a polite, "Did you look at the thing?" to the agent that hasn't rejected me yet
  • Pitching B'Nar again, this time
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