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Sunday, Plans Gang Aft Agley

I was going to take a leisurely morning and tune into AMothintheArchive's story-reading stream, do my wrist stretchies, and see if I could actually unriddle the workings of Zhrythm at last.

Then I tried to start my main compy and got an embuggerance.

So my plans to have an early night and run a game are shattered. My plans to make my offerings and tool around with things are also in shards. Now I have to get dressed, go place, and do thing. BLARGH.

I also need to take painkillers because firkin cyclone headache. Not helpful to my overall mood.

Very shortly, I shall bit the Archive farewell, then prepare for an emergency tech support trip. Drop off the compy tower, and then fuck off home for whatever offerings I can wrangle in between now and whenever the tower works again.

But not before I hear some responses to the mid-stream question.

Saturday, Parkrun and Bread

I don't have to get up early tomorrow, so I have time to bake. Yay. With all good fortune, I should have bread and be able to face tomorrow.

Beloved and I still haven't found the end of Book 5.

Whilst I wait for bread milestones, I am going to get brave and fling a thing at someone. And fiddle around with Zrhythm to see if I can make it go.

I can do this. I have the technology. I can at

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Friday, Can I be Brave?

There's a lot of emotional effort in sending a book off on a pitch. Not limited to the sheer anxiety surrounding sending it off. But I've got to throw it out there if I want someone to pick it up.

And I do want someone to pick it up.

This is the one thing I'm good at, and I should get paid to do it.

I'll get on with the offerings first. Then I try to get brave.

Wish me luck.

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Thursday, Finally at Rest

I don't have to go place and do thing, today.

Which means that I might have a chance to fool around with a thing. But it's more likely that I'll be spending some selfish time on entertainment.

Procrastination is my copilot.

And it really shouldn't be.

I should re-pitch Adapting and figure out what I'm doing next. By the time Adapting is ghosted by PS Literary, Clockwork Souls should be out of slush pile purgatory. I can flick Clockwork Souls at the

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Wednesday, Messed Up Morning

Here's my day so far:

1AM - Wake up despite my best efforts to remain asleep
2AM - text chat with Beloved as she was getting ready for bed
4-ish AM - return to slumber
6AM - panicked phone call from MeMum about the charging level in her laptop and how the power connection wasn't working. Immediate attempt to achieve cogniscence and preparation for hauling ass and solving said tech issue
7AM - Another urgent phone call from MeMum explaining that she'd

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Tuesday, Patreon Overdue, Shrink Day, and Shopping

I'm seeing my shrink in a couple of hours. I have stuff to post on Patreon and I need to take a couple of pictures for over there, too. And there's a supply run in the offing.

As well as the normal run of offerings unto the temple of notes.

Fun times ahead.

I can only launch after the Shrink Stuff(tm) but I can get a rattle on with my other contributions to the nonsense. And that's the PLN.

The good

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Monday, New Schedule For Game Night

To be more accurate, it's Game Morning... because the VTTRPG session goes through midnight.

Sunday evening, I get myself an early-early bedtime in the afternoon. All so I can catch enough Z's for the next bit. Which is waking up at 10 PM so I can get everything prepared for a session that stretches from 11PM Sunday to 3AM Monday.

I am understandably a bit of a wreck today.

Later on, after the backup readings, I shall call Mitre10 and ask

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Sunday, Schedule Change and Recovery

I have an early bedtime tonight. Because I'm waking up half an hour before midnight tonight so I can take some lunatics through a dungeon over the interwebs for four hours.

I will need a LOT of caffeine.

Might have to buy another slab of Monster if this keeps up. I already have PLNs to acquire meds, but they can wait until my consciousness is no longer part of the equation.

So until then, I make my minimum offerings until the wrist

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Saturday, No Parkrun, and Waiting For Spandek

I will bother Mitre 10 about the lack of Spandek sometime after the weekend. Parkrun is cancelled because flooding. We're still getting our hair did, all the same.

I forgot about that and washed my hair. Whoops. I will suffer the consequences with minimal complaint.

Offerings happening whenever. I'm trying to preserve my poor wrists, but it's not going well. I do have speech-to-text, but it's a minor pain in the butt.

Better a minor pain in the butt than a major

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Friday, In the Wars

I have to take it easy. Both my wrists hate me, despite my stretchies. I still have nerve janglies in my right thumb, and my left got bitten by a pen when I put the lid on it.

To help with my offerings, I am installing some speech/text software.

That might help rest my wrists.

Or so I hope.

I also have a cyclone headache so that's promising fun. And tomorrow, I go do the First Timer's Briefing for parkrun. Wheeee.

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Thursday, Physio, Spandek, and Ouchies

I have been reminded to do my wrist stretchies by a persistent pain in my right wrist. At least the container bite from packaging rice has healed. But I still need to wear the thumb splint because nerve janglies.

It's time to take off. BRB.

I return.

Even the physio can't figure out what the hell I did to myself. I shall continue with rest and being very careful with how I handle the household taps.

I also have to keep today's

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Wednesday, Tech Support Leyland's Tour

I am currently out with MeMum, one tech issue dealt with and awaiting a good breakfast. During the rush. Yay.

With all good luck, I should have at least a story for you this afternoon. I don't know about the rant. It might not occur tomorrow, either, because physio and incoming spandek. The receipt for which I forgot in my bag. Whoops.

I hope a photo will do.

I also hope that they come on the Thursday like they said.

Food is

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Tuesday, Patreon and Date Night

I have finished a chapter of ADT! Hooray. Since it's a number divisible by five, I now owe some recordings. BUT... because date plns, I'm trying to focus on the daily offerings first.

If I don't get to the nonsense today, I'll get to it... Thursday. Because I already have PLNs to go help MeMum with nonsense.

Whee fun.

I also need to find a time window to concoct something for the Archive. I have some ideas, but nothing's popped into my

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Monday, Backup Reads and Shopping PLNs

The cats need food, the fam needs protein, flavour, and little things. I have a bit of a Leyland's Tour ahead of me, which will commence as soon as the group's done with the backup reads. I have five stops this time and I can only hope I have enough money to cover our needs.

I'm good at juggling finances.

When I get back, that's when my offerings shall occur. Which means I can focus on being Prepared(tm) for social time

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Sunday, Game Nights and Interesting PLNs

I need to get more supplies for the fam. I actually left the house to get meds, today. Considering the backup reads, the plans with Beloved for Tuesday... and some in-fam tech issues... I'm going to be a busy bean this coming week.

Fun times.

I have my second loaf in the incubator and baking today. Yay. I forgot to turn on the incubator so I have to add another hour after the current timer runs out.

Whoops.

One more hour into

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