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Tuesday, Moving Forward on Big PLNs

I am stocking up on stuff and things today. I also PLN on finishing off the Promptcast thing, working on rewriting ADT, and the daily tale. Yay.

If I have the spoons, I have to also work on Weird Writer Wednesday, and put in some things for my Patreon patrons.

Yes, I know I have to space things out. No, I'm not sure how I can do that when I also need to traipse around Meatspace for hours and hours. Yes, I can post my Patreon stuff any time. I honestly should put things up there when they're fucking done.

That's the PLN henceforth. Catch up, post as necessary. Put in an update once a week... at some time. Probably Tuesdays.

I can, at minimum, drop my Patrons a note today. The rest of the stuff, I can squeeze in during spare moments before I mentally turn off and start playing games. Even if it's just one out of whatever backlog I have stored up.

Let's get going.

Monday, Bracing For Shopping

I need to get stuff and things, so I shall be braving the exterior and shopping centres during the Halloween/Christmas crush.

Yay.

On top of all my other physical BS, navigating the heat and the crazy crowds is not my number one thing to do. I'll survive it because I have to.

I'll be bitching the entire time and likely need a post-expedition nap, but I can do it.

Today's PLN includes 500 words into my Promptcast entry as well as

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Sunday, Stream Stuff and Nonsense

The Promptcast will be launching in a few short hours, and I shall be moderating the chat.

The PLNs today include the moderating, the daily tale, and whatever nonsense I can cook up for Weird Writer Wednesday.

Pondering my recovery and health is looking like it's going to be a process. Including a change of diet and some form of exercise to build up what I can of my body.

(Slight bit peeved that asking for help received minimal effort from Beloved,

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Saturday: Clambering Back Up

I can still feel the morbs clinging to my back, but I'm getting back up there.

I brushed my hair for the first time in three days. I did some of my stretchies. I made breakfast. I'm about to take my meds, which I missed yesterday.

This is progress. It is slow and steady.

Progress is not linear but I am feeling better. Today.

I do know something that can help but it's terrible for my weight control - sugar.

The Promptcast

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Friday: Bad Brain Day

My alarm goes off at 4:30AM. When I should get up, see to my self-maintenance, do my exercises, then enter the proper world and begin my daily tasks.

No such luck.

I woke up weary. Exhausted and in pain when I should have been fresh and ready to go about my daily tasks. So I flopped back in bed and tried to catch some extra rest.

It felt like gravity was doing double duty. It took as much effort to roll

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Thursday: RAIN

It is absolutely BUCKETING over here in Sunny Queensland. I was woken by the thundering blatter on our roof. Further investigation revealed that Whenitrains Creek is not only running, but it has a pal by the Eastern fence. And the news that the rain is going to continue for the foreseeable future.

I'm calling it now. We're getting a second once-a-century flood inside of 20 years.

And people say that climate change isn't real.

With the shitty weather comes the threat of

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Wednesday: The Search For Spoons

I'm... struggling.

My knees are nominally operational again, but my right hip has taken it's turn, with my back, to make functioning in meatspace more than a little difficult.

I'm doing what I can to improve the situation, but I'm still on low-batt/minimal spoons today.

I have 1K left worth of words to put into my Promptcast thing and I have yet to reach the prompt I want to use. Soon.

My PLN is to plug in the last 1K and

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Tuesday, SHENANIGANS!

Today is a fifty-steps-to-make-coffee day.

I did not rise from my bed before seven. I've been having emotional difficulty commencing my day by rising from my bed. Short version: Depression and Anxiety have synergised into making that my daily problem.

My steak, which I put in the fridge to thaw, had been shoved into a back area where it would remain partially frozen. Thus, I had to dawdle getting the rest of my breakfast and, long story short, It was HALF PAST

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Monday, Crowded Schedule

I got a promptcast to moderate, since the stories spilled over. I have shopping to do [fortunately a quick trip to the local shops] and a shrink meet today.

At some point, I will put in 500 words into the Promptcast entry for next week. And write the story du jour.

It's a busy day.

Now that my book is out, I can get back onto other money-scrimping shenanigans. Like working on the entire catalogue of comics I shall be selling off.

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Saturday, Whoopsy Doopsy

Don't expect a lot out of me, today.

  1. I managed to cut myself whilst futzing around with bread organisation, yesterday [Typos +5]
  2. After finishing my daily tale, I proceeded to play Dressmaker
  3. Until A QUARTER PAST MIDNIGHT
  4. For reasons unfathomable to me, I don't feel very well today.

I think I might write my tale and take a nap. [And probably play more Dressmaker when I wake up]

I might take a nap and then write the daily tale.

I might write

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Friday, Onwards?

I could have a book page from Ingram, but it costs $7USD a month and I don't have that reliable an income yet [Still paper-chasing for the Disability Pension] so that one has to wait. Nevertheless, Not With a Bang is available in all good e-bookstores everywhere Ingram Spark chooses to advertise.

[Shown here: The cover of Not With a Bang featuring a man looking over a ruined flatiron building while the rest of New York is covered in Kudzu]

Look for

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Thursday, Publish Maybe?

I just have a few more steps before putting Not With a Bang out there. A little bit of "thanks for reading" at the back of the book. Assigning an ISBN, and looking into the print version while I'm there.

Not a lot to do, and I should stop procrastinating on that.

The Promptcast is having an early stream today. I'm also treating my stupid fucking ankle and making some dough that I'll be baking tomorrow.

I never fucking stop, do I?

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Wednesday, Things Done Early

The Weird Writer Wednesday is out in the universe. I have completed the Promptcast thing, and sent it off.

I finally got the cover art ready to roll, so now it's a question of working around my various editor program's quirks to get a legible copy into LibreOffice. For example: Copying from Ellipsus directly into LibreOffice will give me GREEN TEXT where the italics are For Some Fucked Up Reason... so I had to copy it into GoogDocs, copy from Googdocs, and

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Tuesday, Early Start

I was up at 1AM with asthma so... fed the cats, plugged myself in, and started writing. I have derped and published my Weird Writer Wednesday a day early. Whoopsy doopsy.

I shall get rattling on today's tale and the Promptcast entry anon.

I'll definitely be treating my stupid fucking ankle today. I have no idea why I didn't do it yesterday other than inconvenience.

I can tell you right now that the pain from skipping treatment is worse than the inconvenience

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