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July 20, 2020
“Mudd’s Passion” (Star Trek: The Animated Series S1 Ep10)
Harry Mudd is BACK with a love potion! Josh confesses his undying affection for this rapscallion of a con-man, we appreciate the show getting off the ship, and we veer off into sharing our love for Wallace & Gromit.
July 19, 2020
Day 2,454: It’s late
It’s late.
Decided to stay up a little past bed time to watch this week’s episode of I’ll be Gone in the Dark, which is the Michelle Macnamara/Golden State Killer documentary on HBO Max right now. Might be HBO proper, in fact I’d be surprised if it isn’t, but we’re watching it on the streaming platform 
July 18, 2020
Day 2,453: Coming Together
The opening to this new novel is coming together, damnit.
It’s a slow process for me right now. Which I…I was going to say “hate.” But, that’s not true. I don’t hate it. I love it, actually, spending all this time on these scenes, getting them right. Or, at least half of me feels that way. The half of me that’s like ‘no, get this shit right. Get it to the point that you love it.’ The other half of me freaks the fuck out about how long it takes. The other half of me wishes I could do it all fa...
July 17, 2020
Day 2,452: And, Scene
I wrote a scene today. Top to bottom. And it’s a solid one, I think. We’ll see how it reads. But, I think it works.
This opening sequence is still longer than I want it to be, or I thought I wanted it to be, I suppose. But…I like it now. It’s exciting. As long as that remains true, I think we’re in good shape, right? We’ll see.
Today was a solid day. Got everything done I needed to. Writing was great. Workout was great. I’m up to 143 pushups and sit-ups, though I really did crunches today ...
July 16, 2020
Day 2,451: Caught Up
Coco is sitting upright on the edge of the bed tonight waiting for Liz to come to bed and give her a second nighttime treat. I say “second,” because she already had one from me.
I finally caught up today at work. I’m caught up. Finally!
It feels good. I’m all set up for my day tomorrow…I just had a great thought for the writing in the morning. Podcasted with Josh tonight and we had a great discussion about a hot-button topic in the industry.
Damn.
It was a good day today.
I’m wipe...
July 15, 2020
Day 2,450: Le Quick
It’s a half hour past bed time! Ye gads!
I’ll make this one quick:
Writing was great. Finished the scene I was working on! It’s close! I think…we’ll see 
July 14, 2020
Day 2,449: Booker
We watched The Old Guard tonight on Netflix. It was good! Clunky towards the end, but good. Thumbs up from me, it’s worth watching.
I’m still not quite caught up with my work. I thought I was going to fly through this new workflow, but it’s a little more involved than I expected. Le sigh. Whatever, I know I’ll speed up with it soon once I get it down, and in the meantime, I’m not even technically “behind.”
Oof.
I’m tired. I didn’t take a nap today. Catching up to me right now.
Writin...
July 13, 2020
Day 2,448: Behind
I did some catching up today on my work. Last week, I spent most of the time behind because of some extra stuff that was thrown my way, and I just never really managed to catch up.
Did that today. Most of the way, anyway. Hopefully I can make up the rest of the small gap tomorrow.
It came at the expense of me-time. I didn’t get my afternoon writing session in, and I didn’t get to play music. Or spend the rest of my night relaxing. BUT…
I did catch up.
That’s all I got for you guys to...
“Once Upon a Planet” (Star Trek: The Animated Series S1 Ep9)
Bones completely forgets that he hated the Shore Leave planet the first time they visited it (they’re back), the Enterprise loses gravity for the first time in history which Josh is super psyched about, and we go down memory lane on how long we’ve been working together.
July 12, 2020
Day 2,447:
There was a pile of stuff I wanted to get through this weekend, but it just didn’t work out that way. I was too tired. Or, at least, I just wanted to rest.
I get like that sometimes. The motivation isn’t there to keep the nose to the grindstone and get the shit done. The extra shit. The shit I don’t have to get done.
I think a lot of that comes from my mom. She really liked to just sit and relax in her off time. Sometimes. Not all the time. She’d have bursts of energy during her off-time, ...
