Ira Heinichen's Blog, page 23

Day 4,180: Wild Child

If I could be a character from a book or a film, who would I be?

My childhood answer was an easy one: I’d be a Starfleet officer on Picard’s Enterprise. The D. From the show. Never really fell in love with the next one, the E, from the films.

These days? Yeah…honestly, probably the same. Especially in these times with live in, with so many examples of terrible leadership. I’d ship with Picard, please and thank you.

The future Star Trek presents is audacious. I never appreciated that as ...

Day 4,179: Ararat

Watched a great documentary film today called Somm: Cup of Salvation. I don’t think the title is all that great, now that I’ve typed it out, but the movie is—truly—phenomenal. I’ve seen the other Somm films and this one is BY FAR the best one. Like, another league of documentary film entirely. It’s intense! And emotional. And beautiful. Highly, highly, highly recommend.

Still sick. Still have a fever. This is day five, now, which definitely puts whatever this is in the category of not-just-a-...

Day 4,178: Routine

What job would I do for free?

I think this question might mean “what job do I love so much, I’d still do it even if I wasn’t paid to?” But, the first thing it made me think was: you mean “volunteer?” For the latter, anything the benefits those in my life or my community who need it. I’ve picked up trash, I’ve taken care of my mom after she had a big surgery, I’ve helped animals, made food, childcare…that kind of payless work.

For the former, two things came to mind: animal care and teachin...

Day 4,177: Quali

It is…so hard to breathe carefully and not cough before going to bed. That’s what I’m laying here struggling with at the moment. Just took some cough meds that will hopefully aid that struggle but damn. All my chest wants to do is cough. But if I start, it’s a vicious cycle: the more I cough, the more inflamed it all gets, and the more I will continue to cough.

I hope it goes away soon. We’ll see.

Still very much under the weather. I suspect I will be for at least the rest of the weekend. ...

Day 4,176: Dry & Tickly

Sick, day three. A bit better than the first two, I’ll say. Not a ton, but a little. Took a covid test and that was negative, so that’s good. Still have never tested positive for that one (though I suspect I actually had it in that super early very first wave of 2020, around this time five years ago, before there was even a test I could take for it; lost my sense of smell/taste and everything).

I worked today, though. Had to. Shit needed to get done. Sigh. Wiped.

Warriors beat the Lakers. ...

Day 4,175: Enzo

Took a sick day today. Woof. But the fever is gone now, I think, so the worst should be over. Coops is doing okay—when he’s been, like, sleeping for a little bit, when you first pick him up and put him on the floor, he’s wobbly and seems to take a minute to remember how to walk. But once he does, it’s like a switch has been flipped and he’s pretty much back to normal. He was able to go on two walks like normal, do his three legged pee like normal, he even hopped onto the deck to my office and th...

Day 4,174: Back From The Dead

So…I have an apple pencil. I bought it with this iPad Pro, but I hardly ever have any use for it. I use it to fill out worksheets when I was doing that for my writing, I used it very briefly to color—someday I’d like to get back into that—and I’ve used it to sketch out stuff for my books. Well, I needed to do the latter today…but I haven’t done that since the pandemic, probably. Five years. I knew my pencil would be dead. No matter, right? Just charge it. WRONG.

I clicked it on, charged it ov...

Day 4,173: No Quit

Le sigh. I really really wanted to finish my outline today. I even started work early because there was stuff that had to be done asap today, trying to clear myself some time at the latter half of the day…but it was not to be. Work was legit insane aaaallllll day. No writing was done. I will miss my 3/31 deadline.

But that’s okay. I’m close enough. Tomorrow. Let’s get it tomorrow.

Night night.

Day 4,172: Seester

My oh my what a busy week, and a busy weekend. BUT…I am literally a day or two away from finishing my outline. If I can manage to get all my Netflix work done in time tomorrow, maybe I’ll finish right when I wanted to: March 31st. No matter if it’s the following day either, or beyond…this will by by far the earliest I have ever finished an outline for one of my books, and that’s very, very exciting. To start writing the actual book when the skies outside are still wet, the hills green, and the c...

Day 4,171: Ma’am

Joy is trying so hard to play with me right now, she just tromped all over my keyboard. Toy in her mouth. Growling. I told her no, so she just dove in under the covers, curled up, and snorted. Good god I love her so much.

Coops has a little bit of eye irritation. We took him to the doc today to look at it and the good news was that there’s no new injury. So that’s good. But it was super duper dry, so we’re upping the eye lubes to several times a day rather than only before bed. Hope that help...