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A 2028-post collection

Saturday, No Stream Slug Day

The Archhive is not reading anything today. Neither is the Promptcast. Because it's Halloween in the US. Where they are.

So I don't have a 4-6 hour distraction from my normal offerings.

I've signed up for QueryTracker at long blipping last, and I now have a fresh PLN for pitching my books. I can seek out agents willing to look at my stuff and go through them alphabetically. I can even use it to pitch.

Starting tomorrow.

I now have new glasses, so the only things left to worry about are the blood test I have to do... and the fact that my phone and laptop are lining up to disintegrate.

I will take care of the blood first because the glasses cost four figures. I need to wait a while before spending another four figures on new tech.

Again... not today.

Today I am finishing off the bread baking, writing the offerings, and slacking off.

Friday, Bread and New Eyes

I'm paying for the other half of my new glasses, today. As soon as the place is open. I'm also wrangling a double batch, today. Baking one set of dough, and making the next.

My videos are back in my work cycle, so that's going to be interesting to work back in to what passes for my routine.

The ankle needs a brace, today. My bad for pushing it too far after Physio. On the other hand, I had to test it

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Thursday, Bread and Bothered

I have bread on, today. Can't really delay it without consequences. Alas for my plans, we are also out of cordial and that's going to need a dash up to the shops to get more.

Which means I have to wait until I have money 'cause I've currently run out. The joys of feeding a household when everything runs dry.

I think I shall wait until the account fills up before I sally forth. It'll give me time to get the bread

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Wednesday, Change of PLNs

I have finished working on the Promptcast thing. Or finished to my satisfaction about it. And it has occurred to me that the Promptcast stuff is exactly what Scrivener was made for. So I might transfer my extant shit from the GoogDoc to that and buy the damn program.

I'll try playing with that anyway. It's a small file so far. And I think I still have the free trial on.

Temporal awareness is my achilles' heel.

Turns out I can move

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Tuesday, Patreon, Rain, and Shenanigans

We got blacked out, yesterday. Fun. Then we got rain. We still have rain now, and my internet might get cut off at any moment. Now I also have bread to arrange tomorrow and that promises to be exciting if blackouts continueth.

So does today. I have things to deliver unto Patreon. I have a story to create, the meme to participate in... and so many shiny projects to work on.

I think I'll give the Patreon Patrons a page at a

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Monday, Backup Reads and Over-involved

I am once again tripping lightly into my usual bad habit of picking up too many things to do. "I can fit that in"-itis.

I got the novel, of course, chugging slowly along towards the final chapters. The very shiny fanfic that is having an editing day today[too many typos]. The entry for the Archive, of course. And now I got myself involved in the Hold My Pen Promptcast. Or "Promptcast" for short.

I know not if there is a

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Saturday, Easy PLNs

Yesterday, I had a PLN to take the afternoon off. Then I was called upon to help a writer in the group trim their story down from nearly one thousand words. For a reminder, the upper limit is three hundred and fifty words.

Then I got wrapped up in a collab idea.

And just when I was actually nearly finished with the day's tale, Mayhem needed an emergency shopping run. Sigh.

I'm HOPING to have an afternoon off today. And maybe tomorrow.

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Friday, Results of a Sort

Well I FA'd and FO'd, but the results I found out are not that great.

Other folks have had the problem with Kdenlive, but there's no fix for it yet. Boo and hiss. I might have to find the dev's Discord and ask there.

That's going to take more digging. [tikka tikka noises] Digging done, made a post. Not holding my breath. They did have a Discord, but it looks like it's defunct.

Sigh.

The struggle continueth.

I shall get on with

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Thursday, Unbuggering Kdenlive

The PLN as it was was:

  1. Update everything
  2. Reload the saved video
  3. Hope it works

That didn't do buggerall.

I'm going to try rebuilding the video from extant files and see if that works. Then I go searching for solutions if that fails to do the thing.

But first, I go make my offerings. Then I do all the FAFO to try and get my videos back into operation.

Crossing my fingers and hoping for the best.

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Wednesday, Rant Due and STUFF

I gotta think up something to say this week. I gotta hit Kdenlive with a hammer. I gotta write a story and I gotta stay aware enough to catch Mayhem's Get-Me-Home message because I am totally daft at paying attention to that flavour of thing.

I'm trying something, and I shall see if it works.

I need to get more supplies, but I also need to wait for payday because all kinds of expensive shit has happened. Not-yay.

BUT at least I

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Tuesday, Optometrist, Patreon, and So On

I'm getting my eyes checked today, and I've already packed an old set of frames in case my lenses need an upgrade. Huzzah.

I owe some stuff to Patreon, though I still don't have a terrible lot. I should throw myself at making Kdenlive work again.

The experiment with the videos should get back online. It's just a matter of having the emotional and intellectual wherewithall to hit that shit with a hammer.

The current chapter of ADT is fighting me a

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Monday, Leyland's Embuggerance

I have Extra Shenanigans today. (sparkles manifest with the announcement)

Because just as I was settling to bed, there's an urgent phone call from MeMum. Her power's out and she's hyper-panicking about it. She needs the number for a specific electrical mob. Which I find and give to her.

Then she says, "If I don't call back, come get me."

That... is a very strange instruction. Normal people would say something like, "I'll call if I need you to come get me.

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Sunday, Archive Reads and Alternate PLNs

As I type, I am listening to Antihero go through the chosen ones on stream. Soon enough, I shall have a story for y'all and I shall have the spare time to engage in chosen nonsense.

In between baking the second batch of bread. And icing my ankle.

I made it all the way through yesterday without needing a break. Today, I only made it a couple of hours.

Roses are red
Extinct is Opabinia
I must remind myself
Progress is not

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Saturday, Some Improvement

I made it half the day without needing a bracer on my left ankle. My right ankle has decided to spit the dummy and demand a little coddling. So I put it in the lace-up brace and I'm hoping a day of babying makes it calm the fuck down.

Meanwhile, I have bread going on. Which involves a lot of walking back and forth. Not great for the rebellious legs.

Story very soon, followed by my freedom to slack off. Yay.

Well.

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