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Day 4,037: SF

Another Friday night, another evening of movie watching and podcasting. We watched Vertigo tonight, for the second time. First time was for the AFI’s list. So. Damn. Good. Miiiight be my favorite of his? Especially learning that he didn’t want the letter scene in the final cut! It was forced upon him to put it in. It was written into the script, yes, and he filmed it, but actually putting the movie together, he didn’t want it in there. Really, really should have been given license to release the...

Day 4,036: Maybe ‘96

If I could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?

Right now? Right here in LA. This is where everything is for me, my friends, my work, the weather I like, my house…honestly, I love living in LA. But in the spirit of the question, or perhaps even to take it a step further: if I could move all of that anywhere? Hmm…

Maui comes to mind. It’s goddamn paradise, truly. The most beautiful place I’ve ever visited in the world. It is an island, though. Might be too confining.

Back home,...

Day 4,035: Coops

What’s the coolest thing I’ve ever found (and kept)?

The love of my life, Elizabeth Ho. Hands down. Also: my kitties. Snacks, Nugget, Chloe, Bruce, Bingo and Silky. They kind of found me, and I can’t really say that I kept them, since they live their own lives…but we found each other, and they are mine. I got them fixed. I give them their two square meals each day, and I think I might be the only human on the planet they trust enough to let pet them.

I think this question might have meant ...

Day 4,034: Klay

Klay Thompson. Easily one of my favorite athletes of all time. He should have played his entire career as a Warrior, but alas, it was not to be. This offseason, he opted to sign with Dallas. He didn’t even wait for the Warriors to make a matching offer. That kinda makes it sound like Klay moving was all on him, but that’s not true. He wanted the Warriors to want him, to prioritize keeping him…and they didn’t. Klay, much diminished by his two-and-a-half years of devastating leg injuries have made...

Day 4,033: Capture Card

Just doing a quick one tonight because I’m wiped. An actual full day of writing will do that, lol. But it was a really good day. I felt the drive today, thank ze gads. I felt the push to get this outline further along. I wish I’d felt this a month ago, but here we are. Better late than never, and it’s not toooo late.

The indie author conference is tomorrow. I’ve missed one of them before—at least the Vegas ones—when Coco needed her back surgery, but this is the first one I’ll be missing becau...

Day 4,032: The Greenest

What is good about having a pet?

Everything. Truly. It’s also the greenest of flags, because it demonstrates empathy and the ability/willingness to care for someone other than one’s self.

Pets are the gift God gave us to handle the darkness of the world. They’re pure light. Pure love. Pure joy. They adore us because they’re incapable of seeing our faults. They live to cuddle and play and protect us and get us outside and to sniff and pee and to take naps and make us laugh. The only single ...

Day 4,031: Moon

What is the most expensive purchase I’ve ever made that was not my car or my home?

Does the roof we bought last year count? lol. I don’t think so. I think this question means item. And…I think that’s actually pretty easy: my spec’d out Macbook Pro back in 2020. It was just over $4,000, offset a bit by the fact that I got $2K for my “old” macbook pro that was only two years old at that point, or something like that. But, still — that computer was not cheap.

A close second would be the TV we...

Day 4,030: And Loving It

Quick one tonight bc I podcasted and it’s late, but…got my ass up this morning. Wrote. It was pretty good. Not in the groove yet, but it’s close. Just need to push, and I will. Next week is going to be great.

Movie tonight was really good. It’s Vertigo next week, which is wild. A good day. More tomorrow 😎

Day 4,029: Happy Gale

What was your favorite subject in school?

It’s be easier to answer that question in terms of what subject I was best at, which was always reading and writing involved. Math and the Sciences were always harder for me, though I was still a good student. Bs instead of As. But what subject was my favorite…

Theater class, maybe? Especially my first one? I’d never had the chance to really do theater before that, and I was decent at it, right off the bat. I got respect from it. I made people laug...

Day 4,028: Set

Not doing a question again tonight, just because. It was a good day today, though. Better than I thought it was going to be. Had therapy, which was not even planned to be the day after the election. Good thing, that. Good session. Work was busy, which was nice. And I capped off the day by watching the Warriors beat the Celtics (!) and finding the final few tracks for a writing set that I’ve been putting together. It turned out so well!

And the Warriors…ARE we legit? I don’t know yet. It’s too...