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Tuesday, Grand Tech Expedition

Today, I help MeMum fight the forces of enshittification by securing her Kindle collection. And finding a way to purchase more ebooks without giving Bezos any more money. This will include instructions about how to transfer said ebooks to the Kindle.

I expect it's going to be a long day.

So I therefore suspect that I may not have time to get any of my expected offerings out onto the interwebs. If that happens, I'll have a grand catch-up session on the morrow.

Which will include the Patreon stuff of course. I actually have a fuckload of chapters this time. Yay.

I might even make sure I have audio as well. For the rare few who can afford the dollarydoos for that.

Depending, of course, on how well I can organise at the time.

Monday, PLNs underway

Adorable doesn't have any ideas for helping me fix LMMS, but has recommended an alternate music maker. I'll be looking into that later in the day.

I now have 89 chapters until ADT is declared finished and I can take a firkin break.

Tomorrow, I'm offski to help MeMum back up her Kindle purchases, and find somewhere she can obtain ebooks for her Kindle without giving any more money to Amazon.

It has to be possible, and a lot of authors are

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Sunday, the Internet Returns

Despite getting plenty of sleep, last night, I am still tired. Most of it is a bout of depression surrounding (a) catching up, and (b) the assorted jiggery-pokery that needs must be done. All so I can get other things done.

And, as always, it depends on other people. I try looking for the answers, but I never find the ones that I can make work.

I feel so stupid.

Also, between the advertising round for yesterday's tale and writing the one

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Saturday, Parkrun and Shenanigans

Well. I just finished the chapter in which Kosh dies for realsies. There's aftermath to cover, and then I'm skipping ahead by centuries. Covering a few of the warped stories that become nursery tales or wild fantasy stories.

I think I might write chapter 600 in advance. Just to cheese it. When I get there, that's it. The end. Finito. Done and dusted.

And I will take an extended break before I even think of rewriting Rael or finishing off Kingdom of

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Friday, Return of Beloved?

I can't send a message to Beloved because our chat app is having server issues. Fun. But I did get a message saying that they were getting ready to travel so I can continue hoping for a return to hugs and together time.

...and a return to working out where Book 5 ends and Book 6 begins.

I might even get Adorable over to help me wrangle things so I can continue with my PLNs to make a better advertising video.

And

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Thursday, Catching Up Again

Good news: I found someone who can plausibly help me make Pseuducku be a thing. Bad news, I need to update GameMaker again so I can follow their steps properly.

Good news: I have downloaded the update. Bad news: I don't remember how to use it.

I currently have PLNs to help MeMum back up her Kindle, but that's happening tomorrow. My PLNs for today depend on what happens beforehand.

If I can install the GameMaker update successfully, I'll be working on

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Wednesday, Physio, Rant, and Maybe Shopping

Technical difficulties have been cleared, I have physio today, and some offerings due.

My marketing connection sent me the exact same video they sent me last time, so I sent them a clue.

As in, I know a few things about editing videos. So it could also be a callout.

Meanwhile, I'm going to be learning how to make a one-minute music piece in a GarageBand-like made specifically for Linux. I have to find my own loops, but that's okay.

I might

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Monday, Some Progress at Least

Miss Chaos is at least making an effort, so that's something. I need to figure out where she went wrong with a part of it. Get her to re-do that part and see if it works when she follows the instructions more precisely.

There's less garbage in the carport and there will be more space for her bike. In good time.

After I'm done with the backup reads, I'll supervise her practicing riding her bike up and down the road.

I have

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Sunday, Game Night and Chill

Fun was had with my international maniacs, early this AM, and I am much better for a nap afterwards. The PLN for today is to grab screencaps and seek help for the "brackets issue" in GameMaker.

After the usual offerings, of course.

I am starting to recognise that the physio is getting my painful heels to behave themselves, so now I'm invested in doing all the physio things.

The rest of my day is reserved for time to chillax. Which means that

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Saturday, Parkrun and Rest

I did parkrun with little impact on my poor old feet. Huzzah. What it did make an impact on was my energy levels. I needed a nap after I got home.

So the offerings will be going out as soon as I can get them out.

I need to seek help with a bracket issue in GameMaker, but I also have personal energy issues that means it all has to wait until likely Monday.

Miss Chaos has gifted me the final straw,

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Friday, Valentine's Day

I'm starting to wonder about the person I found to help me with market research. Everything that should be a minor tweaks turns out to be a whole new video. There's flaws that should be easily detected, errors allowed to pass. I'm starting to worry this person is using AI to put out low effort somethings.

I don't want to accuse, but I'm also thinking of transcribing the ad copy from the one that needed really minor tweaks and doing it over

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Thursday, Finally Some Twiddling

I'm baking today, and Mayhem has all the things he needs to make his own bread. Plus Chaos is probably going to have a share of that. I predict a lot of trips for flour and yeast.

But homemade bread is better for you than the alchemical experiments they're selling in the shops, so it's worth it.

Today, I shall be messing around with brackets in GameMaker. Fingers crossed, I get a single thing working today.

And speaking of working, I should

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Wednesday, I Owe Output

I owe Patreon posts, I owe a Weird Writer Wednesday. I also need to make bread and get meds.

I have the best timing [/sarcasm].

At least this time, I can walk without searing agony. That's something, I guess.

Mayhem wants to make his own bread on the same day that I'm planning my bread and this is just adding to the fun. Yay.

I am going to make myself mess around with brackets in GameMaker at some point. But I also

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Monday, Backup Reads and Mistakes Were Made

After a pack of weeks that hammered the 10th of this month into my head, it took one blog entry for the crossed wires there to be revealed. So I have everything lined up, but I don't have to take off before tomorrow.

Gotta love having ideals nailed in and having them ripped out next to last minute. Fun times.

Speaking of fun times, my first test of the latest version came up with an error, so now I'm messing around with

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