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Sunday, Relatively Lazy Day

I'm starting to enjoy having weekends to relax in. Even though this half of it might also involve finally doing the subtitles for the storytime video on Peertube for yesterday.

It might not. There have been embuggerances this time around.

I'll get there.

And speaking of getting there, Chaos and I are getting Flu and Rona shots tomorrow. I thoroughly suspect I will be down for the count for next week.

Thoroughly prepared to be VERY gentle with myself next week.

I've done the story for the Archive. I'm about to make the offerings. And then? I shall chill.

Saturday, Parkrun and Progress PLNs

I am not working on ADT nor Pseuducku today. I'm also not working on them tomorrow. That is something of a relief, as I need a break from my own expectations.

Burnout prevention is very important.

Mayhem got a start on the first loaf, and I'll be finishing it off and working on the second one later today.

The offerings should be happening shortly.

...probably slower because a cat just settled on my left hand.

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Friday, An Abundance of STUFF to Do

I have starter in the incubator because Chaos has discovered the magic of pan-fried bread. Looks like I'll be making bread on a weekly basis. Maybe even bi-weekly. I aim to finish one chapter of ADT this week, and I want to make some significant progress on Pseuducku.

Then there's the usual daily offerings, the video production, and maybe even some time for myself.

I also have a catio to clean, which I will be getting to the instant this blog is

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Thursday, Further Experimentation

Yesterday was pretty much a wash. Most of my time was exhausted in spinning my wheels. I have a lot more time today now that I've got an idea of where I'm going.

Fingers crossed, I have something of a prototype by tomorrow. Because tomorrow... I have to start bread again.

Yes, my lovely readers, both the kids have discovered the wonders of fried toast. So it looks like I'll be making bread once a week.

Not a bad thing, to be

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Wednesday, SHENANIGANS!

Today... I am learning a thing with the help of the QPP. I am learning to use a program that does the programming for me. My absolute dream since I was always pants at programming.

I'd follow the instructions, do everything by the book... and end up with a dev/null error in line zero. Or some other fatal error.

It's been that way since I tried learning to program in the beginning.

Part of today's experiment is seeing how my fickle

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Tuesday, Patreon and Shopping PLNs

I have offerings to present to the big temple of notes. The ones that have the potential for earning me an income.

Because videos, my offerings are a bit more scant. But I do have a finished story for the dollar tier. My ability to write chapters is slow at the moment, and I know I'll eventually get back into the swing of things.

Eventually I will find a way to streamline my processes. It's just not happening right now.

I did

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Monday, Crappy Time Ahead

I could not get to sleep last night. ALL. Fucking. NIGHT.

Today is going to SUUUUUUCK...

I'll be recording a story for the videos, editing and posting an older story for TubeTube, and talking to my fellow writers in the Archives.

According to my internet investigations, the best place to get Rona jabs is Priceline Pharmacy, so that's where I'll be calling tomorrow before I stop by. I'll even ask the kids to get their refresher needle too.

My primary focus is

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Sunday, Bread and Nonsense

My time manglement skills are in full "flower" today. I did get the dough prepped with the help of Mayhem for the last fold and tucking away in the fridge.

I have calculated that it takes me around 20 hours to make bread from 'go' to 'whoah'. That's not counting the prep and bumbling about time so it probably is closer to 22 hours. No wonder it takes me two freaking days to have lovely golden butt loaves.

I should be able

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Saturday, Parkrun and Learning Journey

I have to admit, AI is here to stay. But that doesn't mean I'm going to use it very much. It's never doing my writing or art for me.

Beloved uses it for coding and I've been shown how terrifyingly good it is at doing that. And if I want Pseuducku to be playable this decade... I'll have to do that.

I still don't know how ethical it is, but... it's here to stay. If Beloved trusts it to write code, I

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Thursday, Physio and Proceeding Apace

I almost forgot to finish off the video I made myself have due, last night. But I made myself get up and finish it, and then post it. Which means that I am free and clear to start sharing on my socials.

Next week, I record a little outro advertising my Peertube posts earlier than whenever they find them on TubeTube.

Maybe it'll work. It's worth a shot.

But my lovely followers get the Peertube video before TubeTube does.

I have to

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Wednesday, Rant Due, and Other Things

I don't know what I'm going talk about this week. Maybe state of the WIP, maybe state of the Author. Maybe a little bit of both. Maybe something about my new video editing work.

I dunno, but I'm doing it first.

It's the only way I can be certain it gets done at all. I can't do a "Reasons to Love" on Murderbot: The Series because I'm still evaluating it on its own merits. I'm running out of stuff that can be

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Monday, Backup Reads, Fetch Quest, and Compromise

I have to wear clothes, go place, and do thing today. Because there's mail I need to get from the post office. BLARGH.

Going place and doing thing on a Monday is not my favourite idea. But Tuesday is too late to do it.

Bothery.

I have a vague idea for a future schedule for my story reads. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday seems like a reasonable spacing to keep both PeerTube and TubeTube satisfied.

It's going to be "fun" keeping that schedule,

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Sunday, Taking it Easy

I am sticking to the bare minimum offerings and only thinking about doing anything else. I've been told I might overwhelm my audience if I post story videos every day.

I might slow down when I get close to the stories I've written this year. There are a LOT of stories to read. And a lot more past entries to the Writer's Group that I could stitch into one reading sesh.

Not that I have an audience yet. It's early days on

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Saturday, Parkrun and Hairdo Stuff

I got my roots recoloured, and the whole QPP got their hair extravagandized. Miss Chaos just decided on a trim rather than more purple.

In parkrun news, I've managed another 5K without needing my cane. The physio is really effective.

I managed to finish a chapter whilst waiting for my colour process to finish, so there's another win.

I've decided to use PeerTube as backup for my VTTRPG VODs, and I can only hope that it works because those files are firkin

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Friday, Proceeding Apace

Working out the routine for the storytime videos, I think I have a rhythm now.

  1. Record story
  2. Send to Adorable
  3. Receive Subbie file
  4. Edit the final nonsense

Huzzah.

This time, I'm going to try making my preferred subbie format before I get going on the video project. Maybe I can get the format to stay this time around. Nevertheless, I have NOTES so I can replicate them at will.

By hook or by crook, I will get this WORKING.

I can do

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