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Day 3,990: I Love That

Another good day! I got stuff done. Not a ton—I want to actually push a little harder tomorrow—but I got what I needed to get done, done.

The book is back from the editor. I’ll need to get through that tomorrow. I finished my Author Note. I watched Wrexham get beat 1-0. That was annoying. But still a fun watch! We definitely have work to do as a squad, gel-ing together. But it’s still early!

Dishes are done. We watched Grand Designs. It’s my favorite TV show ever, I think. At the very leas...

Day 3,989: I Can Tell You Miss Me

Contented sigh. Today was a good day. Whew! Not to say the days haven’t been good lately. The opposite: they’ve been great. I guess I mean today was a good work day. I finally, FINALLY got some stuff done I’d tried to do last week and just failed miserably at. Did it today. Got up, did my writing. Intimidated by the amount of work I have to do for my next couple books, but I also know it will be a lot less intimidating if I just get my ass in there and start working. Got some Netflix work done t...

Day 3,988: Homes On Four

We picked up Grand Designs again. The last time we watched it, at least through our Channel 4 account, it was the day Coco died. We put it on after yoga while Coco was at the hospital to pass the time. We were waiting to get a phone call from the internist, to see how she was doing. We got the call, instead, from the ER doctor telling us we needed to come right away.

Ooof. That was a hard day. And, of course, I haven’t wanted to pull up that site again and pick up from where we left off becau...

Day 3,987: J’Door

iPad is at 5% battery! Gotta make it a quick one tonight, I guess, lol.

I write these journal entries on the same thing I write all my books on: my iPad pro from, like…2018, I think? Something like that. Maybe 2019 or 2020, I can’t remember. But I’ve written four books on this keyboard, I do know that. About to write many more.

I watched the movie Mr. Holmes today, which is about a 93-year-old Sherlock Holmes, played by Ian McKellan, who’s trying to solve one last mystery before his dement...

Day 3,986: Dumps

Busy day today! I had a good amount of work to get done, which I did, AND I got to go out to a wine store in Pasadena and get a couple bottles of wine I’d wanted to grab since coming back from our trip to wine country. They had them. And I got to listen to my audiobook on the way there and back, which made it all feel like an adventure.

Hung out with Bear in the evening and watched GBBO. Baking season is back! I’m excited. Going to try some new things this year.

That’s what I got for you t...

Day 3,985: Coliseum

Today was the last Oakland A’s game in Oakland, ever. That’s, man…that is a weird, very messed up thing to be typing.

The Oakland A’s have been a thing my entire life. They’ve been MY thing since…1989, or thereabouts, the year they won the World Series against the San Francisco Giants and became the biggest thing in NorCal sports aside only from the 49ers. I fell in love with them utterly and completely in 1992, the year I turned 10 years old, and Dennis Eckersley broke the all-time saves rec...

Day 3,984: Time Is Wild

Joy does this thing while I’m writing my journal entries for the night where she goes down onto the floor for a while, sniffs around for a while, and then comes to my side of the bed on her hind legs, ears back, and kinda of prances to ask me to lift her back up. We call is “papa elevator.” It’s…very cute. THEN she always tries to stop me from typing to lick my face—also very cute—before finally giving up and curling up in between my legs where she’ll stay while I finish this entry, read a bit o...

Day 3,983: Outage

It’s dark in the house tonight. We lost power a few hours ago. There was the popping sound of an explosion a little ways off, and the power went out a split second later. Pretty sure that means it was a transformer blowing or something like that, but the DWP says repair crews are doing their thing.

Gonna go read more of The Terror I think. Tired. It was a choppy, weird day, but not in a bad way. Just…not back into the routine yet, obviously. Glad to be home! So glad. It always feels nice to c...

Day 3,982: Ourson

A wonderful last day in Portland! Oh man, it was great. Quality time. Scott was even able to get home in time from work to join us on the trip over to the airport. The flight home was an adventure in the sense that there was a (very, very minor) issue with the plane that needed addressed before we could depart from the gate and it delayed us an HOUR…and we only had an hour between our flight landing in San Jose and our connecting flight taking off. They actually had to hold the connecting flight...

Day 3,981: A Quick

Had a great day today! Haircuts, fried chicken, walks, a soak in the Kennedy School pool, bike rides with my bro, and just the best best BEST weather ever. A really, really wonderful day.

Now, time for sleeps.