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Day 2,631: Werd

K. Making tonight a quick entry because it’s already time for the sleeps…

…but I’m killin it. Writing today was excellent. The scene is done. For now. 100% chance there will be some rewriting once the book is finished and I do a full round of revisions. But, it’s done for now. Moving on.

Writing lately has been like that. Fix it. Move on. Feels like I used to feel, back in the days when I realized I could do this, that writing prose was something I was good at and loved to do. Feels nice.

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Day 2,630: Professional

Today, I was a professional.

It was up early, and some extra shenanigans throughout the day that could have really interrupted the workflow…but it didn’t. I got my shit done today. All of it.

Writing was great. I wrote what I needed to write and I moved on. It works. It’s not perfect, maybe, but it works and that’s all that freaking matters with this draft. All it needs now is a polish and a shine. Damn that felt good.

Work was great too. A few things outside of my control at the very e...

Day 2,629: Busy Weekend!

It was a pretty busy weekend!

I liked it, though. It felt good to be outside and working, which is where I was today and yesterday. Got lots done. Also went on a bike ride this afternoon/early evening, which was really nice. And I just sat down to organize my week. Lots of projects that got pushed last week…but kind of for obvious reasons, you know? The world was on fire.

I hope this week the world is less on fire. At the very least, Donald Trump seems to have shut the fuck up. I hope that...

Day 2,628: Rest

Rested today. At least in the second half. The first half was spent running around town a bit, and working on the “project.” I got my tires balanced and rotated and HOPEFULLY a little leak taken care of. We’ll see. I told them about it, but it wasn’t mentioned in the notes they gave back to me.

Then came home and spent a rather lazy day here. I needed the rest.

Night night.

Day 2,627: Silence

Today, a great vacuum formed on Twitter as a voice was swallowed up forever. Donald Trump received a lifetime ban from the platform. And finally, blessedly, there was silence.

I rejoiced. Removing a toxic person’s platform can work. It has countless times. I hope it does in this case. The world will be better to never hear from Trump again. I hope it stays this way.

Not all viewpoints deserve attention. Not all people should have a platform given to them. It’s irresponsible. It’s DANGEROUS...

Day 2,626: Disinformation

Yesterday was chaos. Today…disinformation.

It’s a scary world, one in which facts go unheeded and cast aside. That is the world we live in. The conspiracy theorists are winning in large swaths of this country. It started in earnest today over what happened yesterday. And it will only get worse.

Work was hard today. Harder than yesterday. No writing, either.

I’d like to fix that tomorrow, so I’m going to bid you adieu and go to sleep.

But, not before mentioning that podcasting with Jo...

Day 2,625: Stupid Coup

Trump supporters tried to take over the capitol today. It was kinda close to working? They got inside. The cops did nothing, of course, because it was all white people. Then finally, hours after they’d been requested, the National Guard and riot squad came in and removed everyone.

Four people died.

All because of lies.

January 20th cannot come soon enough. And when it does, I guarantee you, Trump will refuse to leave the white house.

Fucking disgrace.

Day 2,624: No Regerts

I wrote today! It was a good session, too. I like my story. I really do. My opening is solid. Probably better than the opening of my first book. Almost certainly better.

Work was also damn solid today. I cruised through what I needed to do, I got my massive downloads going…it was a good day. Oh, man…and Liz and I went downtown and got pizza, too. Gawdam it was sooooo goooood. Detroit-style pizza, apparently, is a pan pizza with cheese lined around the crust so that it gets all nice and crispy...

Day 2,623: Not Perfect

Not a perfect start to the 2021 work year

Day 2,622: Intentions

Buzzing off watching Stephen Curry drop a career-high 62 points on the Blazers tonight. It was glorious. Insanity. His last shot of the night, in particular, was a circus shot.

He gets like that. He catches fire and just sinks everything. Shots (almost) nobody else makes. It’s a beautiful, inspiring thing to watch him play. The best shooter of all time, I think.

I want to set some intentions for the year.

I separated those out last year in the following three categories, and I want to d...