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Day 4,000: Dubs Win!

An off day today. I had work and got that done, but that was about it. I really wanted to watch the Niners game from last night, so I did. We won! I knew that, but it was still nice to see how it happened. And tonight, I really wanted to watch the Warriors play. We also won that game! It was a bit of a rollercoaster. We were up 11 early. Then down 12 late. Then won the fourth quarter pretty decisively with the baby Dubs. They played pretty dang well.

I really hope the Warriors are good this y...

Day 3,999: Short Hike

Happy birthday to Cat! Just got home from her birthday party and had a blast there. Wolfie and I hung out together most of the time, talking about when he was last over at our house playing A Short Hike. He’s so funny; crazy good memory for stuff like that. Reminds me of when he was super into pokémon, and he knew about all of them. He had an encyclopedia of them, in fact. Smart kid.

Cat was happy. She was having a blast, actually. We got greek food. Had cake. Played music. Talked about scary...

Day 3,998: Tobe

I’m writing this outside right now as Snacks and Joy are wrestling like they’re on Monday night raw. It’s dark. After bed time. Josh is gone from podcasting, the crickets are singing up a storm. But my office needed to be locked up, and Snacks was outside waiting to see Joy, so I let her out. They’re loving life.

It was a good day! I made good progress on the outline. Some ideas for Drake’s internal arc, the stuff he’s dealing with. Work was slow. Been slow this week so far, no question. But ...

Day 3,997: To Close Too The Sun

It was a floaty day today. Untethered. No reason for it I can really point to, it just was. Tomorrow’s going to be better.

I think that’s all I’ve got for you tonight. More tomorrow, promise 🙂

Day 3,996: Imma Peein’

Costco day is always a bit stressful. Not…no, not ‘stressful.’ It’s…disruptive. Always throws me for a loop in that regard. My day gets messed up. I mean, in a good way, because now my fridge, freezer, and pantry are all stocked up. But, it does kinda hijack the day. It was HOT today, too. Very warm.

Still…I got up for my writing this morning. I’ll do it again tomorrow. Progress needs to be made. It’s time. Let’s gooooo.

I think that’s all I have for you. Pups are great. Bear is great. She...

Day 3,995: Hoof

A pretty chill Sunday. I got up fairly early, just by default, and used those morning hours to get the podcast edited and posted. Ghostbusters! It’ll be up tomorrow. A delight.

So, that was nice. That was my bit of work to get done today, and I did it first thing. I got to relax after that and just watch football, really. That’s about all I did. I tried to take a nap, but I think I tried too late. No matter, it should mean I get a nice night’s sleep, and that’s more important, anyway.

Nine...

Day 3,994: Bork!

Joy is getting out her energy right now by dragging around Cooper’s bed, humping it, and barking super loud. She’s crazy. CRAZY! She keeps wanting me to join her, but nope. It’s sleepy time over here, babes.

We had a social day! Got to hang out with Liz and Ali and their friend Justin who was down in the southland for his nephew’s fourth birthday. We got coffee together over in a converted railway station in NoHo near where we used to live. And then this evening we went to Reed’s spoooooky bi...

Day 3,993: Drops

The manuscript is off to the beta readers. My co-writer doesn’t call them that, exactly, but they’re similar; a team of readers who go through each of the books he’s published to make sure everything makes sense, catch any straggling typos, give the thumbs up on whether or not it’s good to go. So, yeah. It’s the last step before publication. Hopefully they like it!

Work was slow this week, thank heavens. Needed it. Lots of extracurricular work to do, and I was mostly able to do it. Whew! Work...

Day 3,992: Right back

Making it a quick one tonight because it’s late, but I podcasted with Josh! We hadn’t hung out in a few weeks because of travel and busy-ness. We watched Ghostbusters, and it holds up! Rick Moranis, in particular, is an absolute delight.

Writing: good. Still work to be done tomorrow. Work: good. Got everything done I needed to and will have a few things tomorrow to tackle. Pups: great. Joy just jumped down to the bed on the floor. She might sleep down there, we’ll see. Bear is curled up aroun...

Day 3,991: Changes

It was a hot one today. This heatwave isn’t quite as bad as the last one, though. We’re triple digits, but just barely, as opposed to the two weeks in earlier that were pushing 112 on some days. That makes quite the difference for our AC, which literally couldn’t keep up. Today, it could. It would actually turn off for brief spells rather than run constantly, and actually got us down to temp. So, in that way, this heat spell feels much less intense, thank lawd.

Writing was…it was fine today. ...