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Plague Diary

A 1823-post collection

Monday, Backup Reads

I got read on stream, so my goal is to get the group to fix what went wrong with my story for that week. I frequently describe my writing process of, "Chronicling what the voices in my head are doing." Learning how to make a better second draft might be a start on improving myself.

There is still chocolate so I am technically off the Keto wagon. Yum num num num :D

I shall be researching how to add instruments and loops to Zrythm now that I know how to use the piano roll and I can hear what I'm doing. Yay.

That might take a while.

Tomorrow I'm offski on other adventures. Today, I rest.

Sort of.

Story soon enough.

Sunday, Egg-shaped Chocolate Day

Happy Easter to those who celebrate, Erastide for those in the northern hemisphere, and Samhain in those here with me in the south. I am taking my time with business today. But as a plus point, I have successfully made something work in Zrythm. Now all I need do is find and add a whole bunch of instruments and loops to play with.

I will get this thing to work. Bit by excruciating bit.

I shall get on with my offerings, add

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Saturday, Parkrun and Holy Days

I set out with the PLN to walk 2.5 kilometers without the use of my cane. Alas, my food quit somewhere along the 1.25-2 K mark, and I spent the rest of it limping along with support.

Better that than paying for it tomorrow.

Today marks the second week that I've been attempting to fix my messed up shoulder on my only. Heat and Deep Heat hasn't worked, possibly because nobody's available to do a good job on the dingdang

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Friday, Erastide Commence

It's Good Friday today, and I have vague PLNs to get fish and chips at some point. Before that, though, I shall render my offerings for all of you, my dear readers.

The weather looks nice enough to maybe finally make the repairs to the catio. Fingers crossed that Beloved is able to be whisked away for the process. Powers only know if there's going to be clusterfucks on her end to put the kybosh on those PLNs.

There will be parkrun

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Wednesday, Unfuckening in Progress

I went and fetched Adorable before I even had my coffee this morrow. As I write, she's currently trying to unriddle the Wacom screen tablet. Task one of four:

  1. Unriddle the Wacom
  2. Whack OBS so the cam behaves its-fucking-self when I'm streaming
  3. Get Zrythm to play some GD sound
  4. Attach basket and rack to Chaos' bike

And because only one of us can fart around on my compy at a time, I'm doing my offerings from the Lappy. Yay.

I shall do

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Tuesday, Technical Nonsense Ahoy

I have parcels to pick up, Adorable to fetch, and an interesting day ahead because unriddling whatever the fuck is going on with my software and hardware.

Adorable has tradies coming, so juggling the minutes promises to be some degree of fun.

I'm going to finish this blog entry, don some clothings, and then launch to get the stuff and then get Adorable.

Offerings when and if I can manage to do them. Maybe even including Patreon.

Update:

The Tradies turned into

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Monday, Backup Reads and Unfucking PLNs

The writing group didn't have much to discuss this week. I am wrangling a technofix sesh with Adorable, and given my messed up tech situation, I'm hoping I can bring her up to me rather than hauling my tech down to her.

Today, I shall attempt to focus on my offerings and then attempt to gain a logical bedtime.

Attempt.

And I shall see what the PLN is for tomorrow. Depending entirely on what Adorable opts for. I have all day for

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Sunday, Another Embuggerance

I have been drooling over art tablets with draw-on screens since I learned they existed. It was recent kismet that allowed the fam to be able to afford one for me.

My dream come true! Except...

It doesn't like working with my OS (:

We have to find the proper drivers to make it behave like it would if I was running a Windoze machine or a Mac. Which probably means that I need to wait for a far more experienced grackle to

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Saturday, Parkrun Volunteers Soaked

It was a VERY wet parkrun, this week. I spent a majority of my volunteer time holding up my Bunnings Brolly for all the people coming in with their tokens. Yes folks, I signed myself up for token sorting.

I want to get my exercise next week, but if they need folks to help, I shall see what I can do.

In other news, I have a new toy to play with. So I'll be messing around with that at a later

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Friday, A Day at Home

For four days, I at least tried to get dressed, go place, and do thing. For one of them, I gave up because feeling awful. Even on that day, I got as far as getting dressed before crawling back to bed.

Tomorrow, I have to get dressed, go place, and do thing. Again. But today? I am taking it easy. Well. Relatively easy.

I still have no idea what to put into my rant for this week. I'm feeling weary so I

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Wednesday, Feeling Much Better

Good sleep and lots of hydration helped me shake off the lurgi nonsense. So today is going to include shopping as well as my general offerings.

I'm trying to branch out, get my works seen - or heard - by other audiences. It took me a while, but I've found some arenas that might welcome my short stories and I'm trying them out one by one. I might dig up one of the older ones I'm proud of for a scifi podcast

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Tuesday, Patreon, PLNs and Embuggerances

I started this morning with trip-hammer sneezing and an asthma attack that the preventer is only just now dealing with. Then I had to confirm that a chair in our house really had to be thrown out because it had mould.

It did, and it did have to be thrown out. I enlisted Mayhem for help, had to clear a path [it's a big chair], and bent my thumbnail backwards in the process. Ow.

And I have PLNs to go shopping today.

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Monday, Back in Business!

I have my compy back at last and now I can focus on the offerings. The backup reads went well and I got props for a "female gaze" moment in one of the reserve stories I had for the event.

Now that the compy is back in place, I have to defend my keyboard from the cats. Because removal and restoration stirred up my desk debris.

This is only slowing me down. I'll be getting on to the offerings shortly. Of the

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