PLN

A 841-post collection

Friday - Day One and Bread

I'm making bread so that there's an oversupply and I will be free to nom on a household loaf whenever.

Alongside the PLNs to make bread, there's household unfuckening and the usual writing to do.

Over this week, I have been writing a guide to Whitekeep, the point of Origin for my Tiefling dude. Loads upon loads of worldbuilding into one solid document.

...which I believe may be finished, but I'm not certain. I need people to check it before I send it to my DM. And they really need to know I've been doing some worldbuilding while the game's been on hiatus.

In the news:

  • Muppet on the election: "Biden has to be cheating, because I cheated as hard as I could and I'm still losing." 9_9
  • Amazing how the Repugnicans want every vote counted when they're losing
  • Victoria easing restrictions again
  • TIL (1) Rhode Island is a state, (2) Its actual name is "Rhode Island and Providence Plantations", only, (3) Not any more, as the citizens have voted to remove the pointing finger at the history of slavery
  • Sydney bar worker stabbed for unreported reasons/excuses
  • One bloke defrauds the "Back to Work" grants and will be used as the "what if they're all doing it" example by the right wing 9_9
  • Adelaide man mistaken for a drug dealer was bashed and had his spouse threatened. I wonder if it would make the news if it was actually the drug dealer
  • China's sabre-rattling includes threatening to stop trade, ScoMo has an opinion
  • Kanye West, who went for the Presidency too late to be on the ticket, said "lol just kidding" and backed out, is now spitting the dummy about not winning? WAT
  • TikTok wants to adopt Barron Trump without any evidence to their claims about him
  • Idiots with guns threatened a vote counting center to the point where the reporter and crew there had to come up with an exit plan. No joke
  • Protestors everywhere fill the streets because close election. I predict riots
  • US gets one hundred thousand cases in one day
  • Teen marries 90YO dementia patient for the money she'll get by 30
  • One woman on this planet claims she likes being treated as an object. She will now be used as the "what if they all secretly..." example by incels everywhere. Thanks, Karen
  • If the Muppet wins, that could kill international travel. Well, dur. Of course. You can't ignore the plague away
  • Of course hotel quarantine doesn't have facilities for the neurodiverse or the disabled. The media's on the side of "the poor mother" without spending very much time on "the poor kid" 9_9
  • Tesla was apparently "a month away" from bankruptcy while making the Model 3
  • Thousands of anxious voters are liveblogging their watching of the US election results on Twitter
  • Mysterious signal detected in space is a star and not aliens. Boo
  • Banks cut interest on home loans in Aus
  • Billionaire deemed unsuitable for association with casino giants
  • Children's home arts and farts kits recalled because hazardous contents
  • Uncertainty in the stock market means bad things for wine?

I've had a good morning. I poured the exact amount of water needed for my bread today, and I got the bikkie done already [I'll cut it after I'm done blogging] and my only hope is that I can get my proofing basket liners CLEAN before I need them. Last wash left them with some... icky residue that I can only hope has soaked off.

Otherwise, I'll be using the ol' reliable non-fluffy tea towels for the proofing.

Here's hoping for better days.

Thursday - Day Zero - Even Mor Shenanigans

Two more cases. Overseas. Quarantine. Yet more for the One Arsehole Theory. I feel like yelling at visitors from overseas. You're infected. Rack off.

Ugh. I'm not normally this uncharitable. This is what the plague has done to me. I swear I'm not xenophobic, I just don't want an outbreak happening in my area.

The Muppet is continuing shenanigans by blocking the counting of early and postal votes before election night and then insisting that they're all tallied afterwards. Which he's going

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Monday - Day Zero

Another singular case from overseas and detected in quarantine. Another reset of my paranoia because of the One Arsehole Theory. Today's agenda calls for House Unfuckening plus Driving Mr Mayhem with a dash of writing on the side.

Yes, folks, Mayhem is actually doing something to... Get a JOB. The skies may bleed. Be warned.

We've cleaned the Maker Debris from the shed and now there is space for two cars only. So if hail cometh whilst the Tesla is away, I

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Saturday - Day Zero

Another case from overseas, and discovered in quarantine. So I'll be voting later today with FULL mask and gloves nonsense. Beloved will also be wearing a mask and gloves, because of the One Arsehole Theory:

"It only takes one arsehole to shit all over everything," -- Me

Also the gloves make it so I can use any hand sanitiser present without burning my skin off. Alcohol allergy makes for fun times in the year of the plague.

In the News:

  • Sweden realises
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Thursday - Day Zero

Two new cases from overseas and detected in quarantine. Augh. Including the five active cases, that's me practicing paranoia for a further fortnight because of the One Arsehole Theory.

According to some email, I might be getting my replacement flour today, so part of my day will be watching my phone for the all-important AusPost text telling me that something is in my parcel locker.

IF that parcel arrives today, I shall also use the opportunity to grab some extra cream from

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Wednesday - Day Four

The Senate has confirmed a blatantly pro-life judge and "cruelty is the point" advocate for the supreme court, which is now 6-3 in favour of absolute evil. Two weeks before the election. They have all stated that they're going to let the Muppet do whatever he wants, throw out the postal votes, and ignore any tally that comes not-instantly after the polls close on the actual election day.

Fascism is real in America.

Today, rights formerly fought and won will erode.

I

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Tuesday - Day Three

I have posted my Patreon nonsense - lots of Tiefling Tales today. I have a PLN to go out shopping for some things, but not all the things, and I have words to yet pour into my novel-in-progress as well as an Instant to write.

Yay.

There's an election upcoming and I don't know if we're early voting to avoid the crowds or going in person and me in mask. Because I won't go anywhere without my mask when all it takes

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Sunday - Day One

I have to make Beloved cut my new loafs so we can wrap them and freeze them for the later on of great need. I have ordered new flour because we're almost out of the dang stuff.

Sourdough eats flour. Even keeping it alive at the rate of half a cup of flour a week gnaws away at the supplies. It took me a while to get through ten kilos, but it all goes away in the end.

I'm writing a story,

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Thursday - Day Zero

One new case found and staying in Quarantine... BUT I stand by my "one arsehole" paranoia.

Today, I shall be recording images of ALL the paperwork related to Miss Chaos and sending them to the case manager. Our scanner is currently out of commission because the one compy it talks to is slowly dying. I'm not sure if we can get it to scan things any more.

Ugh.

Let's look at the headlines:

  • Queensland is building a new north-south highway
  • Muppet cuts
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Wednesday - Day Four

I know what I'm doing with Wordpress Wednesday, and it's A Chapter Of... Not just a chapter of an unedited novel I have finished, but a chapter of a thing that I've written before and during the plague. A thing that, though it won't earn me a red cent [because Wizards of the Coast will probably sue me if I try lol], gave me immense joy to read and write in a very stressful time.

I would come back to it again

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Monday - Day 2

So KIABIL was gifted a mud cake and I was gifted a RAINBOW CAKE. We swapped because each much preferred the other. MeMum got to talk her head off. We all got to get some social time which we were all starved for.

Good times.

I also got to see Capt. S's kittens, which have just opened their eyes and are about to become Bumper Car Kittens(tm).

Today, I am completely solo and have the daunting task of attempting to unfuck

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Sunday! Day One

Shenanigans are afoot as the family are trekking out to Scenic Coominya. I'm also trucking MeMum there so I had to Very PLN for today.

Part of those PLNs will involve getting some sugar-free caffeine tubes for the trip. Whee.

MeMum is twice as paranoid as I am with this plague. I saw in the news that "covid particles" have been found in the sewer system. Given that this happened up North without an outbreak, I'd posit that this is a potential

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Saturday - Day Zero

Two new cases in quarantine, and that's twice as much as yesterday and now I am having a concern. One arsehole... The more cases there are, the more potential there is for a Karen to arise and cause a massive outbreak because restrictions are easing. Ugh.

We almost got there. We almost had freedom within our grasp. We almost had a completely clean Queensland... and then some fuckers had to think they were above the rules. Repeatedly. ARGH.

I'm getting back into

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Friday - Day Zero

One more case discovered in quarantined folks coming in from overseas. There's still no community transmission, but... it only takes one arsehole to shit all over everything for everyone.

I've fed my starters and they're a bit on the thick side, so I added cream and coconut milk to the harvests and got some extremely runny batter cooking slowly in the background.

Very slowly, as it happens. Whoopsidoodle. Too much additional liquid.

The cats are not eating all their food, even the

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Wednesday - Day Three

I woke up at half-past one this morning and more or less forced myself to get back to sleep so now my morning is extra sluggish. I have zero ideas for today's wordpress wednesday, so it's probably going to be another Chapter Of...

I tried to make a tutorial for MeMum to install the search engine to beat Bing and because I was recording in a relatively empty house, my brain went into "everyone is asleep" mode, and I pitched my voice

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