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Day 3,737: My Side

Time for bed! Another good mix today of being productive and rest. But dang, it’s almost 10:30 which is SLEEP time, not just in-bed time, so gonna make this super short.

night night kids

Day 3,736: Whew

Niners beat the Packers to advance to the conference championship. Whew. It was a close one. We played like sh*t for long stretches of the game…but we pulled it out. Just barely. And hopefully it was just the back-and-forth, gritty win that we needed to get through in order to have what it takes to win it all. We’ll see. It’s either the Bucs or the Lions next Sunday.

Got some extra rest. Watched football. Edited the podcasts. Went out to dinner with Nicole and Alex. It was a very good day. Lo...

Day 2,735: Denna

Happy Friday, everyone! The weekend has arrived. Who else is looking forward to a well-earned rest?

It was an up and down week for me, work-wise, for sure. And I do mean the creative work, not the work-work. Work-work was fine. Great, even. But the writing was hard. Specifically getting my ass up on time. Sigh. But I caaaannn do it, and the days I did were good ones. This story seems to be pretty straightforward so far. At least in terms of this is the main chunk of what we’re doing. Not supe...

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...