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Day 3,734: Lemonade!

It is not the time of year for lemonade AND YET…it is because lemon trees are giving up their fruit this time of year down here in LA.

We don’t have a lemon tree, but our neighbor does, and he dropped by a MASSIVE bag of lemons at our house over the weekend, so it’s been sitting in our fridge. Well, today I decided to actually use them for something. They seem to be really good lemons! So, I thought: why not lemonade. Looked up a recipe, juiced the lemons, muddled some rinds and flesh with th...

Day 3,733: Blue Heeler

Wiped! Going to bed early tonight just ‘cause. I feel like the extra sleep will do me good. Not to say I haven’t been sleeping well. I have! But, I’ve been tiiiired this week. I know why, too, it’s very simple: I’m doing a lot! lol. Exercising, taking care of all these tasks and projects I’ve put off, working, AND pushing through the hardest part of the novel-writing process for me: the outlining. Particularly the early outlining, where the ideas are all so fuzzy.

So, yeah… not a surprise th...

Day 3,732: Full On

These days where I do all the things. Man. It is FULL. ON. Up at the buhcrack. Nonstop including doing yoga with lunch from 6:30 to essentially 6…and then a collapse onto the couch for some potato time.

Right now, it’s exhausting. I’m out of shape, mentally. The short daylight hours really don’t help. But, you know what? I feels soooooo gooooooood to have a day like I did today, even through the exhaustion. Just need to keep going. And I don’t do this every day. Just the work days.

I final...

Day 3,731: Bearrier

Very grateful for my wife tonight. And my friends. I’ve worked really hard to surround myself with happy, healthy people, and today was a day over and over that reminded me I have them in my life. They love me, and they support me, and I’m happy and able to offer the same in return. It’s a cycle that renews rather than depletes me.

It’s been a good three-day weekend. Really good. I made a dent in this list of stuff to do that’s been haunting me for several months now, a ball and chain around ...

Day 3,730: Kinzua

I love derelicts, liminal spaces, abandoned…the grander, the more impressive it used to be, the busier or more important, the more fascinating is to see now that it’s abandoned. Like, deeply fascinates me.

I don’t really know why. Not exactly. I just know it does. And it always has. Where I grew up, there are abandoned logging sites everywhere. Massive equipment left to rot in the woods, buildings, entire towns in some places, abandoned and just left. In particular, when I was a kid, I was fa...

Day 3,729: Duper

It is super DUPER late right now…so we’re making this one super duper quick:

Finished uploading and scheduling all the podcasts we’ve recorded.

Put my new office chair together and broke down the old one to dispose of.

Watched a little wildcard weekend football.

Took care of the pups.

Had a great podcast session with Josh.

Now…sleeeep. Night night 🙂

Day 3,728: Real Progress

Joy…halfway passed out, but just now realized that one of her toys was out in the open on the bed kinda close to Coops, so she got up, grabbed it, and just took it into her little nest spot in the bed and is currently sleeping with her head on it, lol. She literally just snatched it to make sure Cooper wouldn’t get it. Sassy pants.

I made some genuine progress today on some tasks that I’d been struggling with all week. Got Netflix work in a really good spot, and had some time, particularly in...

Day 3,727: Again

Another quick one. It’s actually PAST bed time.

Liz is helping our friends with a little family thing. Hopefully not too serious. We’ll see. But…just me and the pups tonight. Freezing outside. Windy. We’re cozy and snuggled up inside tho. Ready for a snooze.

Night night.

Day 3,726: A Quick!

It’s already bed time so, alas, it’s going to be a quick entry tonight.

Still struggling with the outline writing. Tomorrow will be a better day, I can feel it. Gonna get up when I’m supposed to. Work was busy. Did some errands to get cat food, check our business P.o. box and grab some different brand of mic stand boom arms. Helped Liz with audition stuff.

A solid day! Night night 🙂

Day 3,725: Buhner

The area I grew up in…it’s so small. It wasn’t when I was a kid. It felt vast back then. But now that I’m older, I really know: it was tiny. Remote, even. Not as remote as some places, of course—though you could be incredibly remote in the area I grew up in. Some people really lived out in the woods all by themselves, so there are areas of my roots that push the edge of “remote.” But, we didn’t. We never lived in town, but we weren’t remote.

Eureka was the city, and guys: Eureka was a town of...