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August 4, 2020
Day 2,470: Evil
Had a great discussion with Josh tonight about villains and the nature of evil for next week’s podcast. It’s a corker.
Keeping it short tonight because I need to hit the hay, but today was hectic, but successful. I wrote. I worked. I did building stuff. More of that than I expected. But I did it all. Recorded with Josh. Took care of the pups. And the A’s won.
And…I just decided I need to have my hero go and recruit on person before I get him to the ship. The recruiting feels important. We’...
August 3, 2020
Day 2,469: A Quicks
Has to be a quick one tonight. Gotta get up on time tomorrow. I flubbed my alarm this morning and ended up oversleep a half hour, ugh.
Not tomorrow!
Hectic day. Didn’t get any of my normal routine done, and not much work either. I’ll be okay. I can catch up tomorrow.
Night 
“The Time Trap” (Star Trek: The Animated Series S1 Ep12)
Forget ion trails; just follow the trail of sandwiches. Ira hits a personal milestone this episode, we cast a new ensign on the ship that doesn’t know how to handle Kirk’s crazy commands, and the boys decide their version of the Enterprise would have eject buttons all over the ship for easy garbage disposal.
August 2, 2020
Day 2,468: Keeping It Simple
Really, really great therapy session today. Jillian helped me realize that my success comes not so much from the goals I set, but from demystifying the work itself that’s necessary to get there. Which is to say: focusing on the goal or the outcome doesn’t help me. Focusing on the work itself does help me.
Got to hang with Stephen and Thida today. We ate food. We talked. And we played some music together. They have a DJ controller, too, and we had some fun with it.
Then, I came home, did so...
August 1, 2020
Day 2,467: Hell Yes It Would
I just crunched numbers on what it would take me to write (and rewrite) a book in two months, which is still twice as long as some people I know can do…
It scares me. I think it would take me three hours a day, consistently, for 40 work days to do it.
But, goddamnit…I could do it. I could do it.
Still thinking about that post I saw yesterday, and it just hammered home once again the singular thing I need to do to go where I want to go: finish books. That’s it. It’s that simple. I need t...
July 31, 2020
Day 2,466: All That Is Difficult…
All this difficult can become easy.
The first word I thought of was ‘hard,’ but that’s not quite right. The opposite of ‘hard’ is ‘soft’ 
July 30, 2020
Day 2,465: Urinals
There was an EARTHQUAKE last night. Four-thirty in the morning, something like that. Woke us both up, and I ran and grabbed Cooper since Coco was already on the bed next to Liz if we had to run for it.
We didn’t. It was over in a second. Not really that bad after the first jolt
July 29, 2020
Day 2,464: Grump
Do you ever have those days where you just wake up grumpy?
I did this morning. For no real reason, except that I was a little behind on my work, and a little behind on my writing. Otherwise, I think it was just a mood I woke up with.
Sometimes those days are hard. Not today! Today…around mid afternoon, for whatever reason, I just felt better. Less tired. Less grumpy. Just…better.
Makes me think there’s something chemical there. It felt like it lifted, like a fog. It wasn’t super intense...
July 28, 2020
Day 2,463: Better
The writing was better today. Thank god. I needed a better day. It’s been rough since the end of last week. But, it was better today.
I love writing. I really do. That’s where I’m at with my writing tonight. I love it. I love the exploring and the editing and the getting it perfect and…really just finding the characters. I love all that. I feel very lucky I get to do it as much as I do.
Work was busy today. Didn’t quite finish everything, which means a little extra will need to be done tom...
July 27, 2020
Day 2,462: The Terror
The Terror.
It’s so good.
Dan Simmons. I’ve read him before. Hyperion is a masterful book (though, be warned—not a complete tale in and of itself!). This show on AMC from two years back, based on his book, is goddamn incredible. Thank you to Liz for recommending it so highly.
Watch it. It’s masterful.
Hectic day today, but I got my shit done. Need to sleep now. Night
