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Day 4,125: Infernal

So, there’s these Hong Kong cop thriller called Infernal Affairs about a crime boss who sends in a bunch of teenagers to train to become police officers and thus his moles…and a cadet who’s enlisted to become an undercover cop inside that same criminal organization. As things progress, the two of them become aware of each other, though they don’t know each other’s identities. Fun premise, right? Yeah…they adapted it here in the US as The Departed. This is the original. I started it tonight, didn...

Day 4,124: Steady

Amazing what can get done at a nice steady pace man. Do less more often. I’m reminded of that over and over and over again. Resistance has nothing on consistency. If you find consistency, resistance is out of tricks. Hard to get consistent, no doubt, but not impossible.

My reading. My writing. This wine spreadsheet. Yard work. It’s all conquerable with a nice steady pace.

That’s all I got tonight. Hope you had a killer Monday. I did. Night night.

Day 4,123: Blue Eye

Did you know that a shower in the afternoon is a top-notch indulgence? Apparently it is, because I took one today in the afternoon, as the sun was hitting our thin, little transom window that seemed like quite the indulgence itself when we added it to our renovation blueprints, but has turned out to be absolutely indispensable—it poured light into the shower with me, the yellow kind of late afternoon, just as we’re slipping into evening…and it was glorious. Good it felt good! Helped by the cooln...

Day 4,122: Kirb

Snacks is outside right now singing for Joy. Or me. Both of us, probably. He’s like “this is the time to get rowdy! Why aren’t you out here with me???” People with inside cats, I feel for you. Cats be crrraazzyyyy at night. All hyped up and whatnot. Dogs are great in that way: they sleep at night. Lucky us.

Coops’ eye is hurting him, poor bud. But he’s already been to the Doc yesterday and he’s got the meds he needs to be on the mend. An infection they said, which just happens with dogs who h...

Day 4,121: Bees?

A good writing day. Whew. Up on time, just like I thought I would. Wasn’t easy, getting out of bed, but it wasn’t hard, either. Just did it. And the writing was good. I can get this outline done soon. Couple weeks I think. Doesn’t matter how long, really. It’ll get done.

Work was slow. Slow week. I needed it though after being sick over the weekend. Hopefully it picks up a bit next week tho. We’ll see.

Podcasted with Josh. We watched Marnie, which isn’t very good. Couple crucial elements t...

Day 4,120: Hot Honey

A zero day on writing…but I found something instead. I’ll be up on time tomorrow, and I can feel the action plan ready to execute on getting this outline done. I don’t know why I feel the shift, but I do. Which is a relief. Don’t get me wrong—lots of work ahead. But I can get this outline done by the end of this month, and get to writing it starting March 1st, which, man. That will be dope. That will be everything.

Work was slow again today. I think that’s helped a bit. I’m a little over half...

Day 4,119: Spence

Went to a friend’s birthday get-together tonight. It was so nice. Good friends. Several fun conversations, which is a rarity at the stand-around-and-talk party variety, you know? But these were good people. A testament to our friends. Good people attract good people.

Tired today. More so than normal. But I chalk it up to still recovering from being sick. It rained most of the day, this super fine drizzle. Loved it. Snacks came into my office and hung out with me for most of the day, which is ...

Day 4,118: Enclave Conclave

The rain is coming. It’s not quite here yet, but it’s close. The clouds are thick and the air is cool.

It was another recovery day today in the sense that I didn’t push anything. But I’m back at it tomorrow. Looking forward to it. It’ll be hard getting up in the morning I’m sure, but I can handle it.

Night night.

Day 4,117: Druid Peak

On the mend! For real this time. Actually feeling better.

I have two obsessions at the moment:

The first is the song God Yu Tekem Laef Blong Mi, the Hans Zimmer version from The Thin Red Line. It’s a pidgin english gospel hymn from the Melanesian Solomon islands, and man. Really got me today. I’ve probably listened to the song a hundred times. It’s that perfect mix for me of beautiful and sad, the type of song we sing when our hearts are breaking. We don’t sing sad songs in times like that...

Day 4,116: Gram

Feeling a little better! I felt worse for most of the day, so that’s a pleasant surprise. I felt legit sick today. Blech. Slept most of the day after watching some TV. I haven’t been in the mood to watch hardly anything these days, which is odd. The only thing, really, that’s floated my boat have been documentaries. Watched one today on the Shackleton antarctic expedition. Quite the harrowing story. And then because that got me in the mood, I watched one of the Nova episodes on the Franklin expe...