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Day 2,881: He’s Here, He’s There

It’s good to be home.

I know we’ve been home for a good…well, I was about to say week, but that’s not actually true. We’ve only been home, now, for four days. No wonder I’m not fully back into my routine yet! Anyway…even though we’ve actually been home for several days, tonight felt like a normal night.

Odd, since today felt mostly anything but normal. And not for any major reason…I just felt “off” for most of the day. It was a good day! It started with a productive writing session. Then, ...

Day 2,880: Fit In

You know…not exactly sure why I’m thinking about it tonight, but I’ve never really felt like I fit in ANYWHERE.

I think the closest I feel to fitting in is with actors. Not all actors, for sure, but that’s never really what we mean when we say we feel like we fit in somewhere. I’m at ease with actors, in general, and most of my best friends are actors. I was an actor for a long time, myself.

But…not completely. Most actors I know HAVE to perform. It’s a compulsion. I’ve never really had th...

Day 2,879: Patience

I’m getting up tomorrow early. Or, rather, on time. Back to the writing. I have a gottdam book to finish!

Exhausted tonight. For no good reason.

Or, rather, I suppose it’s because I’ve traveled, stepped right back into working, I’m both excited and stressed about finishing my book, things are getting hairy with this project Liz and I are working on, and the real kicker: I realized our finances are a little tight at the moment. Nothing we can’t handle, truly, but tight. Tighter than I’d tho...

Day 2,878: Back in the Saddle

Back to work.

Spent most of the day exhausted, but it was good—genuinely good—to be back to work. Got done what I needed to. Netflix. Client work (great stuff today, Chris!). Big project work. Even helped Liz do a self tape. Been doing A LOT of those lately. She’s been crushing them, too.

Pups are good. Coco curled up next to me. Coops down on the end of the bed cleaning his paws. Liz is watching TikTok on the other side of Coco. All is right with the world.

Night night.

Day 2,877: Multilevel

MLMs should be illegal. Every single one of them. They’re all bullshit.

Any product that’s worth selling is worth selling it ON ITS OWN. No kickbacks. No recruitment. No uplines or downlines. No bonuses tied to anything other than SALES. And no buy-ins, or startup packages.

It’s all bullshit.

If that’s how they’re selling their product, by recruiting sellers, it’s a goddamn pyramid scheme. They make their money off of YOU, not their product.

All that said…watch LuLa Rich on Amazon Pr...

Day 2,876: Forest Dreams

So, I have this forest that I go to whenever I do a certain guided meditation. It’s a real forest. One from a memory.

Pre-teen. In Humboldt Redwoods State Park. We went on a walk one day out to a swimming hole and I guess it just stuck with me somehow.

I didn’t intend for this forest to come to mind, but it did. And it’s a really beautiful, very happy, safe, warm, calm place. The air is warm. It smells earthy and spicy like no other forest does. There’s a tang to the leaves that redwoods d...

Day 2,875: like that

I’m 39 years young today.

It’s an odd thing getting to these ages. I remember thinking when I was younger that someone who was 39 was SO OLD. Like, fully-formed kind of old. Life is set and tiresome kind of old.

Now that I’m here, I realize just how young 39 actually is. 39 is still early in the real meaty part of life. I’m not YOUNG anymore, really, but 39 is soooo far from old. 39 is still early in the prime.

So…it’s weird. It’s weird to be here and have that kind of perspective.

I...

Day 2,874: Eve

Birthday eve!

We did the family dinner tonight since Scaddie have to drive back home tomorrow. It was amaaaazing. Tri tip on the barbecue grill along with some Italian sausage, green beans from Scott and Addie’s garden, a dope ass salad and some home-prepped garlic bread a la Liz.

And then a Boston Cream Pie for birthday cake.

Tomorrow…the birthday for real.

Night night.

Day 2,873: Good Story

A truly wonderful day up home.

We went down to Humboldt Redwoods State park and walked around, had a picnic…we didn’t get to go over quite to the place I wanted to, but we’re going to go back on Monday I think. Something like that. We’ll see.

Then we took a nap at home, went and saw the sunset, and ate dinner over at Eel River Brewery. Then we grabbed blankets and sat out under the stars and argued over whether the brightest spot in the night sky was Neptune or Jupiter.

It was Jupiter. ...

Day 2,872: Hum

I’m home. And outside sleeping in a trailer! It’s very, very appropriate because my teenage bedroom was actually outside in an old airstream.

I loved it, to be clear. I loved having my own space out there. I had a double desk, one on each side of the trailer, and I could roll back and forth between them. Computer on one, and I’d do my homework on the other. The only thing about the trailer bedroom that was a bummer was that it had no insulation and the heater would go out when…it got too cold...