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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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Day 2,034: Yikes

Watching Chernobyl and…yikes.

I mean, I’ve read about the disaster. Can’t remember why I read about it, but it wasn’t that long ago. I learned about the test gone wrong, how the firefighters could taste metal in their mouths and how they died excruciating deaths just a few days and weeks later, how from that point on, it was a race against time to bury the reactor…

But, damn. Watching it play out in cinematic fashion, it’s much more horrifying than just reading about it. And there is SO MUCH...

Day 2,033: The Reality

I’m so glad I’m going to therapy. For reals. That shit is the shit.

I was doing a self check-in on my way there this morning and in the waiting room, and I realized, really realized how many stress triggers I’d gone through over the past two weeks.

Finishing Story Grid submission stuff; good event, but even good stress is still stress.

That made me think a lot about getting back into writing my next book…

…which made me think about who to hire as an editor/coach.

Which led to me fucking up an...

Day 2,032: There It Is

I had a much more productive day at home today. AND, I got to go see Liz at work with her new cast and crew. Merry Happy Whatever is the name of the show. Coming to Netflix this…holiday season? Not sure about that last part. We’ll see.

Cooper’s been feeling under the weather lately. Yesterday, he threw up both his breakfast and his dinner. Today, he was much better, though. We still have cans of the special easy-to-digest wet food from the vet back when Coco was having the tummy troublems and...