Friday, October 27, 2023: Preparations
image courtesy of Andreas Lischka via pixabay.comFriday, October 27, 2023
First Day of Full Moon
Saturn, Neptune, Chiron, Uranus, Jupiter Retrograde
Cloudy and cool
I’m finally sort of feeling human again. Not 100%, but more functional.
Tomorrow is the full moon AND a lunar eclipse – just a few days before Samhain!
Today’s serial episode is from ANGEL HUNT:
Episode 80: Scrying with Gaston
Lianna and Gaston search for the demon through a crystal ball.
Tomorrow’s serial episode is from DEADLY DRAMATICS:
Episode 30: Club Night
Nina goes out dancing with some friends and finds out some interesting information that doesn’t add up.
A lot of yesterday morning was spent in tense waiting, due to the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine. The extended family doesn’t live too far away, and some of them often hang out at that bowling alley.
After 9/11, a system was put in place as far as who contacts whom after a disaster, so everyone isn’t clogging up each other’s lines. So we had to wait for the system to work, and then checked in with the person we usually check in with/report to. Everyone was okay, alive, unhurt, but also locked down, even though they were 30-ish miles away. Since this guy is in the wind, and has the skills and resources to stay that way for a while, while committing more guerilla attacks, people are worried.
It’s the guns.
The lack of political will to do anything about it is unacceptable.
Meditation was built around coping with the shooting. Which is all well and good, but metta isn’t going to get guns off the streets. It makes people feeling helpless feel temporarily better, but then there has to be more action on the part of those people to solve the problems, instead of them retreating into these various practices in avoidance.
Drafted an episode of Legerdemain. Uploaded and scheduled two episodes. I was going to upload four, but I did two, and I will do two more this weekend, because they need some more work. I’m trying to get a few weeks ahead, and it’s certainly easier when I’m building a stockpile of episodes. Did the paperwork around the episodes.
Did a grocery run. I needed coffee anyway, so I got in the groceries for my mom’s 99th birthday weekend, and picked up her cake (there is no way that cake won’t be started before Sunday). It’s cheesecake, her favorite.
Home, feeling like I’d been rolled over by one of the large construction trucks.
Four more episodes of ANGEL HUNT revised (and there was a good bit of revision), polished, uploaded, and scheduled, and that paperwork. I have about 16 more episodes to get up, provided I don’t split any more of them. We’re in the home stretch. I’m scheduled to mid-April right now, so I figure the serial will complete its season sometime in June. Or July, if I split more episodes. That gives me the loose framework for when LIGHTHOUSE LADY has to be ready to upload (May).
Played with ideas for the poem. Played with ideas for the radio play. The most pressing need for the radio play is to find a new title. I will work on both this weekend.
My friend Deborah’s book arrived in the afternoon. It was so lovely on the porch that I spent a few hours sitting out there, reading. Enjoy the porch while we can, right?
I got an email from someone looking for a steamy romance writer for her “client.” She wants to “jump on the phone.” Um, no. FIRST, you will answer, IN WRITING, questions about the parameters, the turnaround time, and, more importantly, the PAY. I’m not wasting my time on the phone if it’s one of those 15K/week for pennies gigs. So I will send her a pleasant email with my list of questions this morning.
Yoga was excellent. I’m glad I hauled my butt out of the house to the studio.
I have a couple of scoring sheets to turn around this afternoon, and I hope that some coverages will come in. I need to work on Legerdemain, Angel Hunt, the poem, and the radio play today and over the weekend. Maybe get a solid outline for THE LIGHTHOUSE LADY done in there, too. I also have to read the book for review, and get that review out early next week. I need to look at the requirements for a grant proposal so I can get to work writing it up. I’d like to get started on the next draft of CAST IRON MURDER, but that might have to wait until next week.
There’s also putting the treat bags together for the trick or treaters (I remembered to pick up candy yesterday), celebrating the full moon, celebrating my mom’s 99th birthday. I have a couple more decorations to set out, and then I’ll run the lights up the stair rail.
Have a great weekend, and a great Halloween/Samhain, and I’ll catch you on the other side!
