The ham is thawing and we have today and tomorrow to get the house nicer before visitors happen. Yay.
Procrastination has bit us all on the butt this time around.
BUT I do also believe in miracles in association with effort, so we should be able to pull through regardless.
It's a small enough crimbo this year.
We can do this.
When I'm done with this blog, I'll get on with the catio and The Bikkie and then dealing with the mess.
Offerings when I need to put my feet up.
Yoiks and away.
I forgot to do Wordpress Wednesday, so that's what I'm doing first thing. It'll help me wait for the butter to thaw.
Yeah the butter I got yesterday wound up in a freezer. Things happen.
I'm making my Decadent Bread and Butter Pudding today, with cinnamon in the custard.
Gotta switch it up. My mixed fruit came without glace cherry bits.
ANY way. I have offerings to make, a pudding to bake, and a house to clean. Inertia is my copilot. And
Read more »I'm getting the perishable stuff, cooking, and wrapping today. All for Crimbo Prep so I can get stuff out of the way. Nice and organised.
That's the PLN.
Mayhem's decided to buy some Crimbo treats instead of making a second pie. Handmade is labor-intensive, after all. It took him three days to do the first pie. Dude made the pastry and everything.
Other PLNs include writing another twofer, the meme, and maybe even recording some chapters for Adorable IF I have the
Read more »After eliminating all possible problems at home, we turned to the ISP. Who admitted that there's been an outage in the whole area.
As a side note, I joked that we'd get internet access back on the day when I'm due for intensive running around and... yeah. The dodge ball of Apollo smacked me good.
I shall be taking off in a few short hours to take Mayhem to APM. Which means that my offerings will be scattered.
Nevertheless, I shall be
Read more »We had one fuck of a storm last night and currently, our connection to the internet is limited to my phone.
Unless I can get everything fixed before bedtime, there's not going to be anything from me until further notice.
My phone data is limited, and I'm using some of it just too get this message out there.
Wish me luck. I am going to need it.
Plus side for my productivity - there's little else to do BUT write. Yay? IDK.
Read more »I have the BG3 brainworms making me write stuff again. I will ATTEMPT to retain focus on the important bits.
I did get some more written for my Beauties summary, but I decided against doing any programming jiggery-pokery. Emotional fortitude and all that.
Today, I get all the mail off the dining room table, in preparation for the upcoming holiday. Hooray. Alongside all the other unfucking processes and occupations I regularly do.
Speaking of, I really need to get to the catio.
Read more »Today, after I am done with my offerings, I shall try a few things I have remaining unfinished. Maps for another game I'm planning to run, more tooling around on Cheev Three of Stencyl's lessons, and recordings of at least one chapter for the rest of my PLNs.
And at least one paragraph into my summary of Beauties and the Beastly.
Somewhere in there, I should at least try to come up with a rough draft of a "Dear Employee" letter to
Read more »Today, I am writing my four thousandth story. I'm going to be spending some of my spondooly in getting that thing out to as many eyes as possible.
That will be happening later. For now, I do the minor tasks in waiting to go get all the things we need for the interim.
I managed to bork my wrists before I was done getting dressed. Mayhaps my morning routine needs to do the wrist stretchies before I put on my new knee
Read more »Patreon and all my other offerings will be LATE today. Because the instant I finish my morning routine, I'm offski to MeMum's for extended tech support and budget wrangling.
It's going to be interesting times, as Mum has just broken something else in her new TV.
And to top it all off, I have a cyclone headache this morning. Huzzah.
Of course I've taken my painkillers. I can drive with one of these bastard heads and have done so before. With good
Read more »My writing group is sharing their diverse tales today. A thing that will likely keep me until the afternoon.
In the meantime, I shall be doing my stretchies, working on the entry for next week, recording a chapter of Adapting, and maybe doing something for Chapter 353 of A Devil's Tale while I'm at it.
Perhaps even some minor tweaking to my work in Stencyl too.
Tomorrow is the day I don't have scheduled obligations, so that's the day I sally forth
Read more »I just finished the game stream, and am doing my pre-literature stretchies. Following Tale Foundry's stream, I shall get on with the daily tale.
Chapter Count: Finished Ch 352, about to commence 353. Getting closer and closer to my arbitrary limit where I believe I should wrap things up and finish up the dang STORY.
But I also have some plot to resolve in there as well, so I'm not going to rush too hard. And there's a lot of book 4
Read more »Beloved and Adorable are in foreign climes, so it was just Chaos and I for the parkrun. Mayhem doesn't want to join the cult the activity and that's his choice.
Sigh.
The good news is that APM is getting Mayhem some saleable work skills. I already put my hand up for anything he can teach me. You never know what might come in handy.
I'm doing my stretchies before moving on to my daily offerings. In between Jolie smudging for attention, because
Read more »I did one thing I've been planning to do for literal years and it's a Crimbo present. Yay. Not saying anything more about that because spoilers. I can only hope that it's welcome when received.
I've done my stretchies, cleaned out the catio, and fed the felines. In a few short minutes, I shall start with my regular nonsense. Including the Stencyl stuff and some chapter recordings. AND The Bikkie.
I am not going anywhere and doing very much but my work
Read more »I have until three this afternoon to get my shit together and present my offerings to the temple of notes.
THEN I poddle off and maybe get my tyre fixed. And perhaps work on another chapter of A Devil's Tale.
I just finished chapter 350 by the way.
I detailed my epic tyre shenanigans over on my Wordpress which was a frustrating fury at the time. Especially with the clock running out for Mayhem's appointment.
I should have the wherewithall to record
Read more »I'm going to pop up to the shops for a small couple of things. So it's ideal to get the tyre looked at.
Mayhem has a job-related appointment this afternoon. I can only hope that the tyre is set to rights before I need to go a-roving.
Cross your fingers. I am offski very soonish to go place and do thing.
With all good luck, the offerings should be arriving relatively close to what passes for "on time" with me.
Let's see
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