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June 5, 2019
Day 2,044: New Habit
I want to start a writing habit.
Not writing this blog, which I’ve already accomplished…but for my creative writing. I’ve tried so many times to lock that in.
And it’s not because “it’s the way you have to do it if you want to be a professional writer.” Genuinely. It’s because *I* want that. I want to escape into my imagination once a day. Every day.
So, why don’t I…?
I write this blog every night right before I sleep. I have some strong external triggers for this habit. It helps me do it the...
June 4, 2019
Day 2,043: Powerful Creatures
I’ve often heard people say that dogs think they’re humans.
I understand what people mean when they say that; their dogs act less like animals than they do their human partners. And dogs do that. It’s what makes them dogs and not wild.
But dogs definitely don’t think they’re human.
You can see it just in the way they interact with us as opposed to their own kind. They treat us with an attention that’s special. We’re powerful, mysterious, weird, and wonderful creatures to them. Other dogs are...
June 3, 2019
Day 2,042: Building Life
The building consumed a lot of my time today. Le sigh. That’s the way it goes sometimes.
In much, much happier news…I am a CERTIFIED Story Grid Editor! Boooom 
June 2, 2019
Day 2,041: A quick one
Have to help the Panda with a scene before the sleeps, and I need to get up on time tomorrow morning, so it’s a quick one tonight.
Great Sunday.
A’s lost. Boo.
Warriors won. Yay.
Cleaned house. Check.
Published podcast. Also check. And check that one out, yo. It’s a really good one.
Panda is HOME. Yay!
Night
June 1, 2019
Day 2,040: P-Series
I’m a technology fanatic.
My podcasting partner Josh has observed many times coming over to my house that it’s like I live in the future (his words, not mine 
May 31, 2019
Day 2,039: let’s see
I had a busy day working from home today. Lots of personal and building tasks to get completed, and I got them done for the most part.
Thumbing this entry tonight. Coco just snuggled up against my leg with a big sigh, and Coops is giving himself a bath.
Liz is driving to the Oregon coast.
All is quiet. It’s cold out, too, but in the way that’s pleasantly cool, not cold.
I watched Margin Call tonight, that movie from (Jesus) almost ten years ago about the first bank to sell off their bad mortg...
May 30, 2019
Day 2,038: Go On…
Josh and I watched Titanic tonight for the Film School podcast.
Did we cry?
…you’ll have to listen to the podcast to find out.
I realized…I haven’t seen that movie since probably 1998. 21 years? Whenever it first came out on video, that’s probably when I last saw it, which means I was a CHILD when I last saw it. Very different perspective now…
It is quite the movie, man. 3 hours. Epic. We SINK the goddamn TITANIC.
Crazy movie.
Anyway…it’s late. Sigh. ‘Casting really takes it out of you. Espec...
May 29, 2019
Day 2,037: Coopey, come on up
Cooper always waits for permission to come up onto the bed. Every night. He’ll sit by the edge of where Liz sleeps and stare at me until I invite him up. And then he curls up right next to her pillow, and begins to give himself a bath.
This.
Dog.
It’s going to be a quick one tonight. I’m thumbing it with my phone and it’s time to be catching z’s anyway.
Work was good today. I was tired, but I pushed through and got a lot done. And I wrote. The beginning of a new scene, plus work on organizing...
May 28, 2019
Day 2,036: Blank 10
I’m going to be working with another author on Escape From Red Tower.
Not as a co-author. Traditionally, you’d consider the kind of work we’re going to do together as an author / developmental editor relationship, but this person doesn’t call himself that. He calls it mentoring, and damn if that’s what I need right now.
A mentor.
Granted, this will be of the paid variety…but I want to finish that book. I want to finish the series. I want to move forward. And I’ve recognized that I need help t...
May 27, 2019
Day 2,035: Double Yikes
Jesus. Chernobyl is intense.
We killed dogs this episode. Pet dogs.
Don’t get me wrong, the show is really, really good. It’s the right kind of horrifying, the kind of horrifying that exposes truth and changes policy…which that disaster did.
I worked today and finished a little bit early. Came home and watched the A’s beat the Angels to win their 10th game in a row (which might become their 11th game in a row when they finished the rain-suspended Detroit game in September).
We’re streaky earl...
