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Day 3,230: Perspective

I wrote 15 pages today kinda like it was nothing. That was pretty cool. Granted, the story is really moving at this point. Lots of action. Life and death and whatnot. But, still. Not long ago, fifteen pages in a day was a stretch. It was difficult. But, because I’ve recently figured out that 20 pages a day is more of the stretch goal that’s hard for me to hit…15 today felt easy. All about perspective…

Made more progress on the shed foundation today. I’m…wiped. I’m ready to be done with it. An...

Day 3,229: That’s Technically True

It was…so goddamn hot today.

And I worked outside. Like a BOSS. For a couple hours. Woke up early and shoveled gravel to clear the space where we’re putting our shed, and then I went to home depot, rented a truck, bought the lumber we needed to make a frame for the gravel base we’re putting this shed on, drove that home and dropped it off, returned the truck (thirty minutes early!), got the rest of the supplies that I needed in order to put the frame together…

Took a shower. Went with Bear...

Day 3,228: YOU ARE UP

K. It’s absolutely miserable outside. Hundred degrees today…and it just RAINED. It’s muggy as fuck. Hate it. Not a fan.

Wrists and whatnot were still a little sore today, so I didn’t push it. I wrote a little bit, I did my Netflix work, and then I went over to J’s and we podcasted.

Day went by so fast. Forearms feel great tonight. Left wrist is still sore where it sits on my lap desk. Sigh. Need to try my other lap desk that has a soft wrist-guard-spot-thing. See if that’s better.

Tomor...

Day 3,227: The Furnace

Well, I’ve officially made my forearms sore from writing so much. And weeding. Sigh.

I cut my writing short just to make sure I didn’t make it worse. It’s fine right now, it’s tolerable, but I have no desire to make it actually bad. Just realizing it’s not quite carpal tunnel; it’s just my forearms. I guess my wrists are a LITTLE sore on the top of them, but really it’s my forearms.

I did some stretches, took ibuprofen, and I rested them this evening rather than pushing through and getting...

Day 3,226: Striking Distance

Everything hurts…but it was a good day.

I recovered very nicely with the writing today. I wrote like a madman. A crazy amount of pages (for me). My wrists literally hurt from all the typing, which I don’t like, but I’m pretty sure it’s exacerbated by the weed pulling I’ve been doing.

It was…SO hot today. 110º. And that shit really just takes it out of you. Zaps everything. Body and brain shutdown. That’s the mode I’m in right now. I wanted to try and finish like the last page and a half of...

Day 3,225: PA

Sigh.

Not the writing day I need today. But…we’re letting it go. I had too much other stuff to do. And I’m glad I did it.

We’re doing an outdoor movie night for my birthday, and last time we used literally my crappy computer speakers, and it was fine. It worked. Not great, but it worked. Well…not this time. I didn’t want to use that. We have like three times the number of people. We live right in an airport flight path. We need a decent set of speakers.

Right as I was sitting down to do...

Day 3,224: Weedz

The weeds in the front of the house are done.

Well…almost. I ran out of daylight and my headlamp just wasn’t cutting it. But, what’s left is almost literally just cleanup. I’ve already pulled everything that needs to be pulled, the rest is scraping it all up with a shovel.

It looks SO MUCH BETTER out there. Holy shit. It looks transformed, actually. Already. And we haven’t even done anything with it yet, really. Oh, it’s so satisfying. I can’t wait to get it all actually finished. Irrigati...

Day 3,223: Knock Harder

Exhausting day, but damn kids . . . I did some shit.

It was all about weeding the front yard today. Didn’t finish it. Kinda knew that I wouldn’t, but the kind of progress was made that will keep me going towards the finish line. “Finish line” being that we’re having family and friends over for a birthday/housewarming party in two weeks. I’ve got one more weekend to get all this into shape, and it’s going to come down to the WIRE.

But, I can do it.

Same with writing. Same with work. Just...

Day 3,222: Uncle Ira

Got to see an old friend today. We lost touch about ten years ago, at least “lost touch” in the actually seeing each other face to face and hanging out kind of “touch”…and so we did that today. We hung out.

Maggiano’s at the Grove is closing. That’s where we met each other and talked Trek and started hanging out. I met a lot of really cool people at that place. I really did. It was such a big restaurant, there was so much turnover; always fresh faces. New people to meet. Easy to find communit...

Day 3,221: Solaris

Watched Solaris with Josh tonight. I freaking love that film. So. Much. I think it might be the only movie that does the 2001 thing…and might do it even better. Literally, I think it’s the only film I can say that about. It’s really, really good stuff.

Neither film is perfect — both can be accurately criticized as being slow, or actually boring in parts…but once you accept the pace at which they’re deliberately unfolding, what’s left is something truly deep, affecting, and genuinely important...