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Day 4,283: Atame

It was a … kind of a day of failure, I guess. Not about anything important, but failure nonetheless. I had the idea yesterday that maybe I could record some stuff I want to record from the PS5 instead of the Apple TV, but it wouldn’t work. No matter what I tried, no dice. Nothing would work. That was my first, like, two and a half hours of the day. It put me on edge which was even more frustrating because it was so inconsequential, you know? A hobby-type project. No stakes.

I floated a bit fo...

Day 4,282: Send Later

Had a Wolfie day today. We played volleyball. Couldn’t find a ball at his house, so we went and bought one from Big 5. Hit it around for a bit. Not very long. And then played Switch together for a little bit after that. And Liz picked lunch up for us. We had a grand old time.

Took a nap. Fiddled around on my computer. I have some Warriors games that I recorded, so I wanted to get them onto our new drive and see if I can get them to show up all perfectly. We’ll see. Still a work in progress. B...

Day 4,281: Privelege

I randomly remembered a post-restaurant-shift late night watch, today. It was this mockumentary film about a British pop star who was actually completely manufactured and controlled by the government to, in turn, control the youth of the country. I looked it up. It’s called Privilege (1967).

I don’t recall thinking it was all that good, but I do remember being rather struck by the premise, and the commentary it was making on how influential musicians had become in that time. It was a cool twi...

Day 4,280: I Am A Party

Late! We got talking for the podcast tonight. It happens. It was good discussion though. It’s why we do the ‘cast.

Got my writing done. Work was busy, but got that done too. PBeast finished his disk check and he’s good to go. Life is goooood baby.

Time for sleep.

Day 4,279: Joy I’m Going To Bed

I think I just broke Joy’s heart. She wanted to dig. To play blanket monster. But I just told her in a very final, stern, papa-like voice that I was going to bed.

She legit understood me, y’all. She knew exactly what I was trying to communicate to her, because she just laid down with a GIANT sigh and is now starting to fall asleep.

Dogs are the best. That’s the tweet.

Another successful day of writing. Got all my pages done. Getting cloooooser to the final act. The final 25% or so. Almo...

Day 4,278: Gobble

Andor: Season 2 was…meh. It wasn’t terrible. I truly mean that. But it was a far, far, cry from Season 1. To the point where I kinda wish they just hadn’t made it at all. After getting their four-season plan scrapped by the studio, I do actually wish they’d just have walked away rather than trying to do what they did, which was three or four seasons smashed into one (but, was it really? bc in the end, it hardly felt like anything happened until the final couple episodes).

Sigh.

Mediocre. P...

Day 4,277: Nine Twenty Three Plus

It’s gonna be a short entry tonight, but only because I want to do some reading before the sleeps and its already almost time.

Very productive day. Got all my writing done. Got all my Netflix work done, and it was a lot to get done today…but did it within normal hours. Whew! And took care of a few items on my anxiety list that I’d been putting off for no good reason.

Pups are good.

Liz is chuckling to herself in the bathroom listening to Dungeon Crawler Carl.

Life is good.

Day 4,276: Grit

A proper day off today. Whew. I needed it. I even got some work done out in the front yard. The hole is finally large enough for the entire parking space. Now, I have to level it, making sure it’s a consistent 4 inches deep everywhere. Then, I put down weed barrier and screw together the border. And then: it’s just the gravel. Get that delivered, compacted, and then the nice gravel on top and presto prango…I finally have a proper parking space. It will be soooooo nice. Can’t wait. Still lots of ...

Day 4,275: Pilcrow

It was…a wonky day off, somehow. I enjoyed it, don’t get me wrong. It was just…floaty, I guess. I did a bunch of random stuff including getting my car washed, buying a hand soil tiller and a pick axe so I can work on the front yard in the morning, I read Shakespeare, watched a movie, took care of the dogs all day, wrestled with the Film School footage before finally figuring out how actually to do it…but upstairs it was floaty.

Hope tomorrow is a grounded day off. We’ll see. Rest is necessary...

Day 4,274: Shane!

We watched Porco Rosso tonight for the ‘cast. It was…fun. Charming. Some beautiful art…but I think it might actually be Miyazaki’s first ever swing and a miss. It’s hard to figure out what he was going for, actually, like, thematically, which is interesting because each movie before it has been so clear what it has to say. Porco was muddled. Even the story is surprisingly thin and sometimes almost non-existent. But, it is fun. There’s still more to like than there isn’t, no doubt. It’s just, yea...