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Friday, Bread baking and Catio cleaning

We're doing bread shaping experiments today. I need to sort out the catio, today. One of those is dependant on Mayhem being conscious. The other is waiting on my own impetus.

Inertia is my copilot.

Today, I also plan on learning ANOTHER editing program to make subtitles. May it not also need jiggery-pokery to do text boxes and the other things.

Here's my last method to make subtitles:

  1. Dial up the subtitle part of the Titles menu
  2. Copy in enough text to fill the screen
  3. Cut off the duration of that title when the words stop being said
  4. Return to step 1 until the video is firkin over.

It's just as exhausting as you can imagine. Druther not do that again. Hence the other program.

I'll get onto the catio, and then get on with my other things.

In other news, I've flicked B'Nar at a potential pack of agents. Fingers crossed, it does better than Clockwork Souls. When/if Adapting gets rejected from Agent Group Alpha, it'll have to wait for B'Nar to be done. And I can start flicking the other three at the Alpha group. I should go find a third mob to throw my things at before I surrender and get them all lined up for indie publication.

Once I've worked out the shorts, I can start reading chapters/segments from my indie published works. Who knows? I might be able to fund some limited edition prints of them. That'd be nice.

It'd be nicer if I got into proper book shops, but... eh. I'll take what I can get at this point.

Onwards to the tasks of the day.

Wednesday, Rant Due and Expectations

I started a chapter, yesterday, and I aim to finish it today. Not pushing myself, though. Just adding a sentence or a paragraph as the muse dictates.

I owe my readers a piece about something on my mind. Maybe a help to new writers, or a guide on how to focus with ASD/ADHD. I'm leaning towards the latter. All my little tricks that I've acquired over the many, many years of dealing with my own mental fog.

I'd much prefer to

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Tuesday, Patreon and Other Shenanigans

So the video editor is ludicrously easy to use. Hooray. So now I'm recording myself reading archive stories. One per day seems to be a decent limit. I'm still working out how to do subtitles without crashing the dingdang thing. Messing about in PeerTube first may make me look more professional in YouTube. When I have enough of a swing in motion to post daily.

I will be digging up my published novels for the long form reads. Eventually. I have LOADS

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Monday, Writer's Group and Video Plotting

My lovelies have now created a PeerTube instance. The moment I can make something and post it on there, it's joining my link hoard in the menu. There's a few technical hitches...

  1. I can't log in to the instance
  2. I currently lack a video editor
  3. I haven't made any videos.

Just a slight snag. I will be working on that as time goes by.

Further bulletins as events warrant.

I anticipate some hours of gassbagging with my fellow writers, before I move

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Saturday, Parkrun and PLNs

I did token sorting this week, so I'm testing myself next week by walking as far as I can before my heel starts to hate me.

We'll see how well that goes. Next week.

This week, I'm not running D&D so that I have time for Mother's Day stuff. She's getting more stash, some play time with my chainsaw, and a lift to acquire more stuff and things.

Meanwhile, an experiment in the Writer's Group has resulted in one of

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Friday, Back to Old Patterns

The instant I finish this blog entry, I'm cleaning the catio. Now fully functional and accessible to the household felines. Then I move onwards with the daily offerings and an attempt to do a thing.

And already my plns have crashed because a parcel has arrived with subscription meds. Yay. So now my plns include putting on clothes, going place, and fetching thing.

Yay.

I'll still have a go at kicking something. Briefly.

Offerings very soon.

But first... the meatspace stuff.

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Thursday, Appointment Day

For one glorious hour, I thought I had a solution to the Zrythm thing. The potential fix didn't work and I don't know what I did to make it not work. I mean, apart from having the Fickle Finger when it comes to tech.

I have faith that it will get unriddled in good time.

I have a shrink appointment, and physio happening today. At least I only have the minimal offerings to fret about today.

And I got out all the

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Tuesday, Patreon, Deliveries, Shopping, etc.

I owe some stuff to Patreon. I owe some offerings to y'all today. I should be recording five more chapters and that should be going up on Patreon too. I should be focussing on all of that but the allure of relax time is calling me.

I can resist. I hope.

On the plus side, Mum has her seasonal chocolate and a half-dozen eggs, a fix to her tech, and refreshes supplies. Yay.

I have no idea what I'm going to doodle

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Monday, Backup Reads and Back to Work

First week of not "working" during the weekend. This, in my case, means not working on the novel or any of my side projects for two days. Which, in turn, means encouraging myself to get back on to doing the thing. IF I can focus on doing half a chapter a day through the week, I can plausibly write up to two and a half chapters a week.

Which is likely to fall over tomorrow, because Mission to MeMum's. We'll see how

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Friday, Trying and Very Trying

I cannot comprehend the extant set of instructions for getting new instruments into Zrythm. I'm going to try some video tutorials and see how I go.

If it gets incredibly desperate, I'll sign on to the Discord and find someone who knows this shit to help.

I feel like a true thickie, trying to do all these things and failing at it.

On the other hand, I am teaching myself how to art all over again. With constant practice, I will get

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Thursday, An Attempt Was Made

I just wrote and published yesterday's Weird Writer Wednesday. Just so I can keep the feed and reputation going. It's still Wednesday somewhere.

I'm using that justification and nobody can stop me.

Today, my PLNs are to figure out how to import instruments into Zrythm and try doing that. So the daily doodle will likely be a diary cartoon. I can do those in less than a minute and the Zrythm-related stress will be enough.

I tried figuring out figure drawing yesterday

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Wednesday, Rant Due and Accelerating PLNs

I am spending this morning going through my archives for my most popular stories. All so I can read them to TubeTube at some point. My metric? Anything with 100 or more likes gets into the system.

There's more popular stories than I thought.

I have five years to sift through. That's going to be... interesting.

I'm still freaking out over it a little bit.

I can do this though. I know I can do this. Figuring out how to add video

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Saturday, Parkrun and PLNs For Later

Beloved and Adorable are unfucking servers, today. In order to get the Catio similarly unfucked, my mission tomorrow is to go forth, abduct Beloved, and haul her back to do the thing.

Tomorrow... all being well and sincerely unfucked... I also get material things unfucked over here. Yay.

Finally, the kitties can wander to the catio and enjoy the fresher air and the glimpses of the birds. And use the litter tray in a less constrained atmosphere.

My offerings are due and

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Friday, ANZAC Day and Commenced PLNs

Today's the day Australia and New Zealand remembers the fallen in war. Age shall not weary them and so forth.

This morning, after cats, self-maintenance, and foot stretchies, I started braiding jute twine for my new cane cord. I have figured out that I can leave it off my cane until it's nearly done.

I'm also reasonably sure I can braid the entire thing instead of braiding it partway and then making a thicker cord out of the extant cord. I know

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