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Day 2,901: Joe 4.0

Happy Birthday to one of my best friends. Joe.

He’s in town this week/weekend with Madhuri and Ashika in tow, and it’s so, sooo nice to have them. We went and had Korean Barbeque together and it was gd delicious. Then picked up cake from 85º just down the street. A chocolate mousse cake. It was sooooo good. Sang happy birthday and gave him our card and little gift, and then talked for a good long time about life and getting older and creativity.

I love Joe. He’s a good man. I love his fami...

Day 2,900: Singin

Coco is improving. Thank dog.

She had another episode this morning of really bad pain, BUT…it wasn’t as bad as I saw it happen yesterday evening, and it passed much faster. She relaxed and laid down after just a minute or two. And it didn’t happen again for the rest of the day!

In fact, she was feeling so much better, she wanted to walk around the house a bunch, which I was reading in the doctor’s notes that she’s not allowed to do for a few weeks, SO…

She’s now in a crate. Poor thing. ...

Day 2,899: Touch and Go

It was touch and go with poor Coco today.

She was fine when she had her meds in her. But, oh boy, when they started to wear off, she was really in pain. Exacerbated, I think, by me picking her up to take her outside to go to the bathroom, and then eat dinner.

That sequence—she was about 5 hours into her meds at that point—sent her into an acute pain episode where I think she was having back spasms. Her whole body was rigid and shaking, it would arch her head back, and she’d pace around fra...

Day 2,898: IVDD

It’s almost 3:30 right now as I right this.

Coco…suddenly was in acute pain tonight, right as we were getting ready for bed. Shivering. Hardly able to move. She would yelp whenever I would pick her up. I knew something was wrong.

I took her to the ER and the doc says it’s likely that she has IVDD, which essentially means that her spinal discs are degenerating, and one is causing an impingement on her spinal cord. To what degree, we don’t know for sure because the doctor didn’t think it was...

Day 2,897: Pistole

Whew.

Long day. But, I did it. Got my shit DONE. Need to do the same tomorrow.

Haven’t written a word in a week. Don’t like that. Going to fix that tomorrow morning, come hell or high water. You heard it here first. The task is outlining! And I need to get Author Notes and a blurb to Craig.

Did my A/V Club stuff, too. Wracking my brain to think of swag to give them for volunteering like they are. Thinking special lanyards and maybe I can VistaPrint an A/V Club logo or something to slip ...

Day 2,896: Someone To Love Me

Today I decided that I’m obsessed with Lil Nas X’s “THAT’S WHAT I WANT”

It’s so good. The whole album is sooooo good. And it’s so gratifying, man, because I really wondered if he was going to make it in the rap/black music scene as an openly gay man. Lotta homophobia there. But, at the end of the day, all that matters is that you’re dope. And Lil Nas X is DOPE. He’s undeniable.

I want to be that good some day. Undeniable.

Working on it, guys.

So damn good all I have to be is me. All ...

Day 2,895: It’s Hard

Storytelling is hard, yo.

Ted Lasso is a fun show. We’ve enjoyed much of season two, but man…they are MISSING on some stuff, and none more so, perhaps, than the character who is probably my favorite. Not even probably. He is. Or was.

“Was,” because they’re ruining him. And not in a fun, tragic, put him low in order to bring him back high kind of way. Ruining him in a way that makes me cringe, and dislike the writers that decided to do this. It’s bad. And mean. And it’s really changing the ...

Day 2,894: Share the Love

I love picking artwork for each of these blog entries each night. I find most of it on Tumblr.

It inspires me. Just like music, it makes me imagine far away places, adventure, drama, excitement. It really, really drives me to write.

I’m not always the best at crediting the artists. I really need to be more consistent with that. Tonight’s artwork is by Roger Dean, an artist from the 70s who I use images from a lot. It’s called “Floating Rocks.”

Some day I want to buy art like this. And, ...

Day 2,893: Entre’act

Doing a quick one here on my phone tonight because it is LATE. We watched a very long, very racist movie tonight, and while it was certainly worth it for the podcast, it is LATE.

I’ll post-date this back for 11pm earlier this evening, but it’s currently almost 2:30 😜

Again…totally worth it for the podcast. Got to see Josh’s new pad, give him our housewarming gift, catch up and just watch a movie together.

Glorious.

Night night.

Day 2,892: Back in Bed!

There is nothing like sleeping in your own damn bed, man. Nothing.

I haven’t been for the past couple days because Liz was feeling under the weather, and we’ve found that the sick person getting the bed and the other person taking the air mattress has a 100% success rate thus far of not getting the other person sick!

It’s held true thus far this time around, too. Huzzah!

But. I’m back baby.

It’s so comfy in here. We have a DOPE bed. King size. Just got it last year. Great mattress. T...