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Day 4,057: Cackle

Watching Warriors play the Rockets right now, thumbing this on my phone watching on the couch. I want to see the end of the game, but I also want to go to bed on time, ha. We’ve had such a hard time closing games lately. Hopefully we can pull this one out. We’re up six. 2:20 left. No Steph, no Draymond. It’d be a huge win in that Houston is good and we’ve lost five in a row. We’ll see what happens.

Writing today was a dud. So. Frustrating. But…tomorrow, reset and back at it. Four hours tomorr...

Day 4,056: Puppy Cuts

Share five things I’m good at.

I’m good at meeting people. I’m sure it’s not 100-percent, and there definitely times I know I’ve gotten off on the wrong foot…but I’m usually pretty good at making a first impression.

I’m decent at DJing electronic dance music. I just played a set, in fact. Now, I’m not great at it, there are so many skills these days that I don’t have, but I can beat match (by ear! old school style), I can pick tracks that go well together, and I can blend them.

I’m pre...

Day 4,055: Le Quick

Already bed time, so this one goes out quick:

Work: did it. Busy at first, then a slow day.

Painting: done! Except for these random spots where the tape pulled up paint and didn’t set a good edge. Ugh.

Writing: did it! Four whole ass hours. Not the most scenes, but not bad. I’m in a better place with the Smith stuff I’m planning out.

Wrexham: won! On a super late goal, too.

Warriors: lost. I’m officially worried about this team, now. The haters were right: we’re flawed. Gotta work...

Day 4,054: Rodeo

Am I a morning person or a night person?

Naturally, I’ve always been a night person. Never so bad as staying up till 3 in the morning or having a hard time sleeping, but I’ve always been most creative at night, liked staying up, and REALLY loved sleeping in. But here’s the thing: as an adult, the daytime gets filled with lots of other worries and concerns, so much so that even in the evening, I’m usually pretty wiped out and not feeling energized or creative. This especially became true when ...

Day 4,053: Fish Butt

So…we have the type of dogs that need their butt glands expressed every now and then. And by ‘expressed,’ I mean that they need to be squeezed empty, lol. It’s not as bad as it sounds. I put a glove on, step into the bathroom where its easily cleanable, then pinch right below the booty hole and squeeze. That’s it. Nothing crazy. Well, Joy needed that tonight. Right before bed! Sigh. Happy to oblige her, I guess. I am content in the knowledge that she must feel so much better. Pressure relieved! ...

Day 4,052: Smile!

Making it a quick one tonight because I’m tiiiirreeedd…but we went over to Derrick and Gary’s and watched Smile 2. Liz and I have never seen the first one, actually, but it didn’t really matter. It was surprisingly good. Like…that movie brings the noise. Loved it, actually. One of the best scary movies I’ve seen in a bit. It was really, really good.

That was fun. Got some reading/editing done. Need to crank that shit out tomorrow, though. Night night.

Day 4,051: Anajack

What technology would I be better off without, and why?

Social media. Because it’s a net-negative. A timely question, this, because I’ve been thinking about it ever since the election. For all of social media’s benefits—and there are, objectively, so many! I’ve been addicted to social media, in fact, to varying degrees, for the past, like, fifteen years of my life…in the end, I do think its negatives outweigh them. I think it’s made our society worse, not better. We’re more divided, less-info...

Day 4,050: Thanks

What’s the hardest decision I’ve ever had to make?

An interesting question for WordPress to feed me on Thanksgiving, but let’s do it: putting down Coco. For a moment, I really didn’t think I could do it. I remember saying that as we walked to the room where they were going to take her to us to do it, ‘I don’t know if I can do this.’ But…I could. I did. I held her as she went. I’m glad I did, as dark as that moment was and will always be. She calmed just before it happened. I don’t know if tha...

Day 4,049: Loud Purr

Do I or my family make any special dishes for the holidays?

Liz has a turkey that’s freaking delicious. We haven’t done Thanksgiving at our place for the past few years, we’ve done it over at the King’s instead. But her turkey is legit. She puts butter under the skin, and that does the trick.

My mom really loved making cookies for the holidays. Chocolate chip, oatmeal butterscotch, and persimmon cookies were the ones she made most often. Oh, those always make me think about Christmas. She’...

Day 4,048: More Drip!

I don’t know where my iPad is…I think I may have left it out in my office, or set it down out in the living room. In any event, I’m in bed now and I’m not getting out to get it, ha! So, on the phone it is. I don’t have the same WordPress app here as I do on my iPad, and this version doesn’t have the question of the day feature so, alas, you’re stuck with a summary of my day.

Woke up. Writing was the struggle bus, but I tried. Incidentally feeling decent about how tomorrow will go. Can’t say w...