Dear Diary

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Sunday, Running Around, and Still Streaming

As I write these very words, it is approaching ten minutes past two in the morning and I am in the middle of an asthma attack that crept up on me in a really bad way.

To put it in the most interesting way possible: I started my day at one in the morning by googling "feeling like a ghost is taking my pulse on the left of my neck" since three other searches could not find anything unrelated to a heart attack.

That search still couldn't find anything that wasn't a heart attack by the way.

It took me a further hour and some really juicy Death Coughs (tm) to realise that it was 'just' asthma.

I also woke up to the realisation that I forgot to do the Fic o' the Week read yesterday. Mea Culpa. I got hung up on other issues. Including a gag being ruined by me having my mic off for the entire thing. UGH.

As soon as I am done with Max, my pet nebuliser, I shall do my stream and (hopefully) remember to do the missing read.

Wish me the best of luck on that bullshit.

I have the feeling I am going to need it.

I will be a twitchy bean for hours, today. So expect a heckton of typos.

I will not be able to compose a lengthy snark against WOTC, Hasbros, and DnDBeyond for some days yet. If you want the proto rant, tune into my game stream [or the vod] for the inevitable rant with my international nerds.

In other news, we are RUNNING AROUND today. Going to the outer reaches of Tullagawupwup [Aunty Excellence's place] for lunch and then a quick run home so I can sleep for game night and then do all my other things. Yay.

Max is done with me. I'm shaking like a little wet dog.

Saturday, I have a social life now

WHat?

Social life?

Me?

Yeah apparently I do.

We took KIABIL for the Parkrun and he did the whole 5K straight out of the box! Holy shit. Thereafter, we went to a Nerd Bar called Netherworld.

Yes, there are Nerd Bars. Yes, they have a lot of games and that includes game machines. They also have an overall atmosphere of inclusivity that makes the whole place pleasant to be in.

Translation: TERFs Not Allowed.

It's a nice place. But it also sucked

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Friday, An Attempt Was Made

I at least cleaned out the Catio. I am about to feed and harvest my starters to make The Bikkie.

And because my love got me sugar-loaded caffeine bubbles, I can also sample the pasta that the fam made last night.

Yay?

IDK.

I tried and nobody should criticise me so ner.

Speaking of trying, I have two hundred pages of anthology to edit, so that's most of the rest of my day. Then I can work on finishing the next chapter

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Thursday, PLNs of Schedule

The new schedule is looking a little like this:

3-7AM: Lounge around with Beloved, maybe read and maybe edit something.
8AM(ish): Getting ready for the day
9AM(ish): blogging and editing until Curse O'Clock
10AM: Curse O'Clock
11AM: Back to my bullshit. Stream set-up.
12PM: Streaming!
1PM-4PM: The rest of my bullshit
4PM-on: Relax time!

The last two depend on the ability of my back to put up with me doing stuff.

I'm going to spend my hour in the curse

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Wednesday, Wordpress and Sundry

I did it again. I futzed around until it was too late to stream before the 10AM curse.

So my PLN now is to do a bit of shopping with my time. I need to get vegemite and cat food.

After I get back and stream, I think I'll focus my energies on footnote checking and at least one chapter summary.

Once the anthology is fully edited, I can get it out on the interwebs for your reading pleasure.

Once the novel

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Tuesday, Catching Up, Patreon, and all that jazz

The cursed mower started working just after I got everything together to move it. Hooray, I guess. So my heavy lifting was hauling boxes of stuff off to lifeline with the full understanding that I have a zippy little TARDIS car that can move lots of stuff at once.

I now have a completely improvised phone holder for those fun occasions where I need my GPS. It still needs some tweaking, but that won't be happening today.

TODAY my focus is on:

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Sunday, Beach Day

It's the last day of holidays for Friendo Awesome, so we're taking her and KIABIL up to Rainbow Beach for fun times in the sun times.

Expect me to look rather red for the next couple of streams.

Speaking of streams, I won't be online for some time. There's a high chance that I might not be able to stream at all today. If that happens, there will be a twofer tomorrow.

I will not be taking my "security blanket" - aka

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Saturday, Parkrun and PLNs

I did the 5K, enjoyed company and snackage. And then just about fell over thereafter.

That's why the stream happened closer to sunset. And there's another reason it won't be happening tomorrow.

The fam is heading out with Friendo Awesome to Rainbow beach and having some fun times in Meatspace.

I fully expect to not have the wherewithall to do much more than the daily tale.

NEXT week, I shall be getting on with getting on. Fingers crossed.

Working out where to

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Friday, Very Late Start

Beloved was not feeling very peachy keen this AM. Nasty cramps. Alas, an upgrade from the hot-water bottle is going to cost three figures and cost us a lot of time in waiting for the thing to arrive by post.

Bum.

I have called my dentist and reschedule my appointment because economical offsets. I have cleaned out the catio. I have yet to feed the Starters or create The Bikkie.

I'll be doing that after the stream.

Which should be happening very,

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Thursday, Best-laid PLNs

I wuzgunna work on a summary of Beauties today. I wuzgunna tag another week of fics for the app. I wuzgunna ensure another fifty footnotes in the anthology.

...and then my wrists went kasplat.

I have the story done for today, and rubbish to put out for collection. Beyond that, I am resting my wrists and hoping I can get to the rest of it later.

I hurt and I'm tired and I would like to try getting better about doing all

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Wednesday, Wordpress and PLNs

I stayed in bed with my Beloved for a little too long today, and wound up streaming at 10AM.

Whoops.

BUT I also didn't have the 10AM curse happening to me.

We did not alter anything, but the compy failed to slow to tar and attempt to die. Huzzah. I am not going to fault it at all for surviving and defeating the curse.

I'm pretty much pointing to True Love's Kiss at this point because NOTHING ELSE DID ANYTHING.

BUT it

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Tuesday, Tech Support and Patreon

I might not be able to do the Patreon stuff today. If I get to it, I shall be getting to it in the afternoon or more towards the evening.

If it doesn't come up today, it will happen tomorrow. Which will also mean another episode of the fanficcy variant of A Devil's Tale

At this point, it's vague spoilers for the novel I'm working on. Things are changing with the demands of narrative and things aren't easy for my heroes. And

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Monday, Public Holiday

It's the last day of rest before the return to normal shenanigans. The last day at home to chill and enjoy the chance to relax.

Tomorrow, it all goes off.

Tomorrow, I do my stream, charge off to the other side of the city, and help MeMum with her sundry stuff 'n' nonsense. Including the inevitable tech support.

Tomorrow, I also have my Patreon to fret about in the afternoon or, let's face it, the morning of the next day.

Today, I

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HAPPY NEW YEAR (Sunday)

2023 is just beginning and I am working on this blog whilst Tale Foundry is going through their last read of 2022.

I have actually gathered some statistics on my Instants from 2022.

Top 5 Most Commented Stories of 2022

5) https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-03551-i262-but-ice-floats 11
4) https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-03624-i336-welcome-deeds and https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-03651-i363-holding-it-in 12
3) https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-03562-i273-a-gift-a-blessing-and-a-visit 15
2) https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-03530-i242-not-a-happy-ending 16
1) https://peakd.

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