Wed. Oct. 30, 2024: You Mean I Have to be a Functioning Human Being Today?
image courtesy of StockSnap via Pixabay.comWednesday, October 30, 2024
Day Before Dark Moon
Saturn, Neptune, Chiron, Uranus, Jupiter Retrograde
Sunny and cool
Phew! Yesterday was the best possible kind of whirlwind. Cards and calls and flowers delivered and presents. I’m very glad that my mom’s 100th birthday was a happy day for her.
The Clark Art Institute is expanding. A rich guy, former Trustee, left over 300 pieces in his collection AND enough money to build a new wing for it AND an endowment for the museum to employ people to care for it. So that will be interesting, over the coming years.
Got STRANGERS IN THE SNOW revised, proofed, and off for final edits/copy editing/formatting. This weekend, I will have to do some Nina Bell videos and a STRANGERS video. Time to get all that ready to launch.
Only managed to get 2 scripts turned around, not 4. That means I have 6 to turn around today, since they are due first thing tomorrow morning.
The Kindle Vella authors I talked to are mostly resigned (and a little angry) about the way the division is being shut down. The way they kept changing the payment structure indicated they were in trouble. Then in September, they cut the bonus pool by 50%, which meant even authors with high numbers were getting a pittance. It didn’t affect me, because I already got my final payment for the platform.
I’m glad I didn’t just “stick it out” the way some authors decided, way back last spring, when the changes were more and more anti-author, and there were more and more obstacles to authors promoting. I would have lost months’ worth of work time, and be scrambling now.
In the late afternoon, I went out to pick up my mom’s favorite cheesecake. We had a favorite roast chicken dish for dinner, and then I made stock.
Rehearsal began at 11:30 PM my time, and ran until a little after 1. The rewrites work, and the actors put in a lot of good work. It’s more about finessing and the details now. We may have another rehearsal next week (they hope to rehearse in person, not on ZOOM). And then, November 12 is our recording date. I have some production-oriented material I have to get to the producer today or tomorrow, and then just be on hand for whatever’s necessary in the final rehearsal and on the recording day.
I finally got to sleep a little after 2. I’d been up for 21 hours by then, and it was time to wind down. I woke up 6-ish, when I heard my mom feeding the cats, and then dozed off again, until just before 7, when the crows woke me up. There were hundreds of crows cawing in the area. It was like something out of Hitchcock movie. I looked up the street, toward the mountain behind Church Street, and it looked like the mountain heaved because there were so many crows in the trees. No idea what that was about, but I was awake.
When the RMV opens, I’m off to see if I can sort out renewing the car registration. That’s first on today’s agenda. Then, it’s mostly digging in to get the coverages done. I will probably nap on and off. I doubt I’ll make it to tarot this afternoon, but we’ll see how I feel and how much I’ve gotten done later this afternoon. I’m afraid the days of my operating on 4 hours of sleep a night regularly are over.
Tomorrow morning, I HAVE to get myself to the laundromat. Too much laundry has piled up.
I keep thinking it’s already November, but Samhain isn’t until tomorrow – so there’s still a lot to do over the next few days.
Have a good one!
