daily log

Got up today at 10 am. I’m pretty sure that’s about the same time I got up yesterday. Last night I foolishly started the install of the YouTube app on my phone because I missed being able to choose something to play while I went to sleep. I wasted a half hour this morning watching videos before finding the strength of will to uninstall the damn thing again.

YouTube is a serious timesink for me. Video of any kind just sucks me in. It’s way too easy for me to waste hours and hours with.

I don’t have Netflix or Amazon video installed on my phone either. I’ll never get anything done with that shit on my phone.

After that I made pretty much the same breakfast as yesterday, reviewed and published yesterday’s log and got to “writing”. In reality I spent 45 minutes touching up the 5 pages I wrote yesterday. It was hard to resist, especially since I really did need to make some edits for readability.

I finally started writing new words for about 15 minutes. Then Siarl got up and we talked for a bit. I’m about to make them breakfast and a bit of food for myself. Then I should probably work on the doe fence while it’s light and then finish up my writing time for the day.

I’ve feed and watered all the animals and added two more pallets to the doe’s pallet fence.

I haven’t written any more today. It’s 11:53 pm so I still have time. Actually I’m about to have a coffee and finish up my last half hour of writing time. But I can’t let this pass without comment. One of the leftist YouTubers I follow, hbomberguy, is live-streaming Donkey Kong for the N64 and fucking Alexandria Occasio Cortez showed up, along with Chuck Tingle and a bunch of folks. We’re through the looking glass here people. What the fuck is this universe.

I’ll be listening to the archive while I’m drawing and doing chores.

Seriously what the fuck.

Ok, time for coffee and writing.

Jesus Christ on a cracker…

I’ve only written for an hour total today but I have drawn for about 40 minutes and posted the page on this blog.

Siarl and I had an impromptu music session. They played viola and I played my old ukulele. Damn that was fun. I’m really tempted to add 15 minutes of ukulele to my daily commitments.

Back before I was going to school full time to become a software developer I used to work phine tech support. I got two 15 minute breaks and an hour lunch break every day. Near the end of that job I would draw in my sketchbook during my first break and play ukulele in my second.

I improved at art and music very quickly during that time.

I’m going to get ready for bed and see if I can’t bang out another half hour of writing before sleep. I need to get up early to make sure siarl makes an appointment tomorrow. Maybe I’ll take a nap later on tomorrow to make up the sleep I’m going to miss tonight.

I feel like I buried the lede on the whole hbomber streaming thing. Motherfucker raised 300k for a trans kid’s charity while playing a game for hours and hours and hours while live-streaming the whole thing.

Fuckin’ awesome.

I’m now in bed sitting cross legged with several layers of blankets over my knees. My phone is plugged in and playing The Arctic Monkeys. Spooky, our goat child, is under the covers right next to me. Only her head is visible. She’s chewing her cud.

I’m feeling pretty sleepy but I think I can do another 30 minutes of writing before I go to sleep. I’ve got to skip reading today.

I did write for 30 more minutes, though I kept nodding off as I was trying to write. My word count today is only 478 words. Ah well, I’ll do better tomorrow. Off I go to sleep. 😴