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January 15, 2024
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 ...
January 14, 2024
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 🙂
January 12, 2024
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...
January 11, 2024
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.
January 10, 2024
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 🙂
January 9, 2024
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...
January 8, 2024
Day 3,724: QUICK!
I’m supposed to be asleep in six minutes, so this is gonna be a quick one.
Didn’t get up on time, but I made my marketing meeting. Owe James an email about it. I got my Netflix work done. Almost finished the finances, budget edition. Took care of the pups. Went Costco shopping. Twas a good day…albeit writing-less. Sigh. A zero day in that regard. We look toward tomorrow!
January 7, 2024
Day 3,723: Frigid
It is COLD tonight in LA, at least for this town. Lower 40s right right with gusts up to 30ish miles per hour. It’s the wind, always the wind, that really makes it cold. If it were calm out, this would be nothing. But it just cuts right through you. Been windy all night and all day, too. Supposed to last through tonight as well, and be gone around midday tomorrow. At least it’s not super duper dry. I think the wind is coming from the north as opposed to from the East. These aren’t Santa Ana’s, I...
January 6, 2024
Day 3,722: Active!
I was surprisingly active today. Sigh. In a good way! The sigh is for tiredness. And soreness.
So, I did really good last year with yoga. Like…five months of it, I think? So, when you average that out, almost every other day for an entire year. Nuts. I’m going to continue and improve on that this year. It’s just so good for my body. BUT…no real cardio. Not doing my heart enough. So, the idea came from our France trip to bicycle more.
I’ve wanted to since I got my bike for Christmas a coup...


