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Plague Diary

A 1823-post collection

Tuesday, Patreon, Deliveries, Shopping, etc.

I owe some stuff to Patreon. I owe some offerings to y'all today. I should be recording five more chapters and that should be going up on Patreon too. I should be focussing on all of that but the allure of relax time is calling me.

I can resist. I hope.

On the plus side, Mum has her seasonal chocolate and a half-dozen eggs, a fix to her tech, and refreshes supplies. Yay.

I have no idea what I'm going to doodle today. It might not even be about anything.

And now to juggle making things, watching things, and recording chapter reads. Wheeeee...

Monday, Backup Reads and Back to Work

First week of not "working" during the weekend. This, in my case, means not working on the novel or any of my side projects for two days. Which, in turn, means encouraging myself to get back on to doing the thing. IF I can focus on doing half a chapter a day through the week, I can plausibly write up to two and a half chapters a week.

Which is likely to fall over tomorrow, because Mission to MeMum's. We'll see how

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Sunday, Game Night and Further PLNs

I'm planning to get to sleep at 5PM today, all so I can be awake at the right time to run the VTTRPG. My keyboard is behaving itself again, but yesterday was entirely terrifying.

I will be keeping all beverage containers out of accidental knocking-down distance. Religeously.

One scare is PLENTY.

I'm listening to AMothintheArchive on Twitch as they go through some entries from last week. I know what the prompt should be for next week, but there's always room for a

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Saturday, Parkrun and Technical Difficulties

Parkrun was a huge success for me. I repeated my experiment of walking without my cane to the halfway point, and then walking with support on the way back. I now have confirmation of the end of Volume Five of ADT so now all I need to do is fill in all the chapters between where I am and the two chapters I wrote for the very, very end.

Seventy-four chapters to go.

Meanwhile, I spilled a teeny tiny drop of beverage

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Friday, Trying and Very Trying

I cannot comprehend the extant set of instructions for getting new instruments into Zrythm. I'm going to try some video tutorials and see how I go.

If it gets incredibly desperate, I'll sign on to the Discord and find someone who knows this shit to help.

I feel like a true thickie, trying to do all these things and failing at it.

On the other hand, I am teaching myself how to art all over again. With constant practice, I will get

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Thursday, An Attempt Was Made

I just wrote and published yesterday's Weird Writer Wednesday. Just so I can keep the feed and reputation going. It's still Wednesday somewhere.

I'm using that justification and nobody can stop me.

Today, my PLNs are to figure out how to import instruments into Zrythm and try doing that. So the daily doodle will likely be a diary cartoon. I can do those in less than a minute and the Zrythm-related stress will be enough.

I tried figuring out figure drawing yesterday

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Wednesday, Rant Due and Accelerating PLNs

I am spending this morning going through my archives for my most popular stories. All so I can read them to TubeTube at some point. My metric? Anything with 100 or more likes gets into the system.

There's more popular stories than I thought.

I have five years to sift through. That's going to be... interesting.

I'm still freaking out over it a little bit.

I can do this though. I know I can do this. Figuring out how to add video

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Tuesday, Patreon and Supply Run

I just finished the run-around for stuff and things. Overspent a little, but I won't need that much next week. I hope.

Or it could be the cost of living creeping slowly upwards. I hope not.

I have Patreon stuff to post, offerings to create, perhaps some time devoted to either (a) synopses or (b) Picking out flash fictions to read for the TubeTube shorts.

Best to get on with getting on with that.

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Monday, Backup Reads and Nefarious PLNs

The backup reads are going on, and I need to figure out various B-roll capture methods. Then figuring out what shorts I'm going to be reading for my PLN'd TubeTube shorts.

I can do this. I am going to do this.

The audio recording might have to be set aside for a time in which I can exile Chaos. Her zoomies and audio don't mix well for production values.

I will be using some time to figure out what I'm reading. I

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Sunday, Unfucked A Thing(tm)

So here's my day:

  1. Wait for Beloved to be awake
  2. Commence personal prep
  3. Get invited to morning markets for brekky
  4. Cart them all there for that thing and also get some noms
  5. Beloved drives here
  6. Adorable photographs the local mob [of kangaroos]
  7. The bad patch of the catio roof is removed as Adorable and I drag out the metal spandek
  8. Find out I got the wrong fucking size of spandek. I needed to get 2.4 meters, but I got 1.8
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Saturday, Parkrun and PLNs For Later

Beloved and Adorable are unfucking servers, today. In order to get the Catio similarly unfucked, my mission tomorrow is to go forth, abduct Beloved, and haul her back to do the thing.

Tomorrow... all being well and sincerely unfucked... I also get material things unfucked over here. Yay.

Finally, the kitties can wander to the catio and enjoy the fresher air and the glimpses of the birds. And use the litter tray in a less constrained atmosphere.

My offerings are due and

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Friday, ANZAC Day and Commenced PLNs

Today's the day Australia and New Zealand remembers the fallen in war. Age shall not weary them and so forth.

This morning, after cats, self-maintenance, and foot stretchies, I started braiding jute twine for my new cane cord. I have figured out that I can leave it off my cane until it's nearly done.

I'm also reasonably sure I can braid the entire thing instead of braiding it partway and then making a thicker cord out of the extant cord. I know

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Thursday, Bread and Physio

Here is my cunning PLN:

  1. Start one loaf off [X]
  2. Make offerings whilst loaf continues process
  3. Bake loaf
  4. Go to physio
  5. Go process the second loaf and do things for creativity purposes, huzzah

I can make a start on the new cord for my cane, but I can't get to the tricky part until I have the entire week to do it.

We'll see how I go.

Starting with today's offerings. Huzzah.

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Wednesday, Rant Due and Patreon Overdue

I got a notification this morning that a parcel had arrived at my AusPost locker. It was the cable I ordered sometime last week.

It's unriddled and plugged in before I turned my compy on and the tablet looks like it works. Huzzah! I shall be trying that out in the fullness of time.

Which will be much much much much much much later on today.

I have things to do first.

The daily offerings, the patreon stuff, and the rant that's

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Tuesday, Big Day About

I may not have the time to post Patreon stuff today. It's almost 5PM and I just now sat down to do my work. I mean, I technically did finish a chapter of A Devil's Tale while I was roaming, but that's background work y'all don't see. Not until after it's done.

Here's my day:

  • 3-4AM awaken and pry self from bed, get dressed
  • Make sure I know where MeMum's seasonal chocolate is, so I don't forget it
  • Get dressed and take
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