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Day 1,964: A Quick One

Quick one tonight because it’s way past my bed time for no particular reason, which stresses me out a bit. Sigh.

But, tennis tomorrow. Had a *great* day today.

Night

Day 1,963: Health Is Number 1

Today reminded me that our health is really all we have. It’s number 1. Nothing else matters.

Poor Coco. She’s under the weather.

A couple days ago, she threw up her breakfast, and then had some stool issues later that morning…but then she was fine. Until last night.

Last night, she woke up three separate times to throw up and or have diarrhea. And there was (what looked like) blood in her stool. It was enough of a concern for us to take her to the emergency vet down the street.

They took her...

Day 1,962: It Takes A Little Time Sometimes

It takes a little time sometimes for things to sink in for me, for them to actually work.

I read this book last year when I was really struggling with anxiety and my writing called Getting Things Done. It’s been around for, like, 25 years or something like that, and there are a lot of people in the business world that use what they call the “GTD” system to run their day to day operations with as little stress and lost work as possible.

Well, I read it, and I got this app for my phone called “...

Day 1,961: Wiseguy

Heeeyyyyyy…

So. Today. I thought today was tomorrow. Damn it! I realized it in time, however, to avert disaster.

We were supposed to go to this screening tonight…or, rather, we’re actually going tomorrow to this screening, but I thought it was tonight. And both Liz and Josh were able to switch around their schedules, praise be…

And thus, Josh and I watched Goodfellas tonight. It was

Day 1,960: Near Disaster

Guys! Near disaster today: I left my headphones on the shuttle to work.

Liz got them for me for Christmas; Bose Quiet Comfort IIs. They’re dope. If you’ve never had noise-cancelling headphones before, they’re a gaaammmeee changer for focusing and getting work done. Particularly when you need to tune out the world.

Luckily, that shuttle runs on a loop, so I just waited for it to come back around, and they were right where I left them. Totally crapped out my morning work session, though. I was...

Day 1,959: Reviews

Film School continues to come together steadily. I sent out a call to my friends and family tonight to check the show out, and leave a review to help us launch this thing.

Reviews are the biggest factor when it comes to showing up on podcast searches, any of them, and most pull their review info straight from iTunes. We need to get 10 of them to get a “rating” with iTunes. That’s goal number one.

I want to get us to 50 next

Day 1,958: Time To Save Daylight!

Guys! It’s finally back to savings time, aka getting dark at 4 in the afternoon. Undoubtedly, this is the harder switch; getting used to going to bed early, getting up an hour earlier. That sucks. But the time itself does not

Day 1,957: Late

Man…it’s late again, so I’m (again!) going to make this rather quick.

I had another excellent day. Perhaps not quite as anxiety-free as my day yesterday or the day before, but I’m on a roll right now in terms of keeping my to-do lists under control and actually getting them done.

I’ve also now made sure I got my writing done every day for at least 5 minutes. I’ve written a chapter in three days. And I’m almost done with Starship Troopers. The book is so good. Like, there was an entire section...

Day 1,956: I’m Back…

I’m back.

I had a wonderful day today. Wonderful.

Got building stuff done pretty much first thing, beyond walking the pups and eating breakfast, both of which I was able to do on time.

Then I had time to edit down the Film School episode for this week, which is awesome. Two days ahead of schedule. And I got a bunch of errands done after that before I had to finally go into work. Dropped off good will stuff, gassed my car, parked in the new offsite parking for work and figured out how long it...

Day 1,955: Kleen

Y’all…it’s only one small step (for mankind), but the floors of my apartment are CLEAN. I scrubbed ’em down. Feels nice on my feets.

Had to leave for a hot minute there and get my writing done for the day and come back. I’m back. Got in nearly 500 words in like 10 minutes. Amaze. Stttillll not quite connecting with the actual prose a lot of the time…but that’s because I’m writing in the dark, I think.

I think.

It’s just been such a persistent feeling for so long. I worry.

But, I don’t want to...