Fri. Feb. 7, 2025: More Snow, and More Snow Incoming

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Friday, February 7, 2025

Waxing Moon

Mars Retrograde

Snowing and cold

That was intense snow yesterday. Beautiful, though, especially since we were tucked in to the apartment. And snowing again this morning, with high winds. About another 8” of snow is expected Saturday night into Sunday.

Tessa taught Bea the joy of playing with the plastic milk rings, so Bea has something new to keep her interest. Yes, she’s smart enough not to try and eat it. She also managed to get one of the balls out of her interactive toy, and was quite annoyed with me when I put it back in.

Yesterday’s meditation leader was the computer-terminology one, so I ducked out.

I printed out our vaccine records, in case they vanish (we still have the original cards, too). I printed out our IRS forms. We have never filed electronically, nor do we plan to, for as long as possible. We work in tangibles.

I did a bunch of admin. I figured out the next bit of the anthology story, so I think I can finish the draft this weekend, polish it, and get it out the door next week. A medium-sized coverage came in, paying decently, which I will turn around this afternoon. It’s the only coverage that’s come in so far this pay period, which is disturbing.

I find it unbelievable that a cadre of grown-ass humans can’t stop a handful of teenage pissants down in D.C.

I gave myself the afternoon off, reading and re-reading Elizabeth George’s work, again, starting from the beginning. I’d read the first few when they came out, back in the 80’s. I’d forgotten how gruesome they can be. At the same time, her character work is excellent. And she doesn’t loathe her female characters the way Grimes does. I mean, personally? I still dislike the character of Helen Clyde in the series, but George develops her with an eye to complexity and as a fully-rounded individual. And this time around, I’m learning a lot about structure and pacing.

The weather was too nasty to walk down to Open Studios, so I skipped it.

I heard back from my editor on the ghostwriting project that there’s a delay in getting the notes back to me. So I need to point out that, if I’m not getting the notes back until sometime next week, the Feb. 12 deadline in the contract to have 20K done based on those notes is unrealistic, and we need to amend that.

It’s snowy and very windy today. I’m hoping it will calm down in the late morning, so I can do a post office and maybe a library run, but it’s looking doubtful. I am, however, going down to Eagle Street, because several friends/acquaintances/colleagues are all involved in openings on the same street, and I want to turn out to support them.

Over the weekend, I will work on the anthology story and books for review/contest entries. Maybe the play sample for the commission proposal, although I’ll probably leave it for next week. I need to get some LOIs out today, too. Next week, the For the People cohort starts, I have to attend a Public Art Commission meeting, and a library board meeting. And we’ll see where we are with the ghostwriting. Somewhere in all of that, I want to get out a couple of grant proposals and work on the ANGEL HUNT adaptation. But a lot of that depends on the deadline for the ghostwriting project.

Fingers crossed I can make it all work. The internet’s flickering in the wind, so we’ll see how much I can actually get done online today.

Have a great weekend!