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As part of my efforts to get motivation to get back into a serious #writing, I'm watching videos. This interview with Harlan Coben is a must watch for fiction writers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpMXu2DwGs4&feature=youtu.be (clean link)
He's also written a memoir about his writing called Plot Twist: https://bookshop.org/a/95191/9781538784624 I put that on hold in my library.
Finally finished getting dressed and got some stuff done outside the house. My neighbor is having well issues and is not home; well repair guys told her to shut off her water heaters (she has two!) and she sent me over to do the job. While I was out I fetched the mail and my garbage pals. It's a gorgeous day and I should have spent most of it in the garden, putting the beds to bed. Tomorrow will be nice, too. I hope I have more energy in the morning. Friday is an art show day.
Little by little, I'm getting things done. I'm still half in my pajamas. Washing my sheets; I'll remake the bed with my winter comforter on it. Dishwasher has been emptied. Another box brought up from the truck. Bee food mixed and ready to go tomorrow morning; they must be needing food because they are all over my hummingbird feeders.
Watch a great video that gave me ideas for a new earring design. Confirmed my first day back at Pybus Market for Friday. Not sure how I feel about it.
Four excellent and simple #tips for #writers. I really need to focus on #4.
Passing it On (Part 1): Four Writing Lessons I Learned the Hard Way https://writerunboxed.com/2026/09/16/passing-it-on-part-1-four-writing-lessons-i-learned-the-hard-way/
My pups, who are sharing the sofa with me, don't seem to mind. #DogsofMastodon
Still having trouble getting started today. At least I'm mostly dressed and have moved from the bed to the sofa with a blanket over me. I had breakfast and soup. And coffee, of course. 4 ibuprofen + 2 Tylenol. Heat is cranked up to 72°F and I'm still a little chilly. Maybe I'm coming down with something? I feel so blah. At least my finger has stopped throbbing.
I have a robot vacuuming my bedroom, another robot vacuuming my studio, and a load of wash in the washer. That's something.
This is a long read, but absolutely worth every minute you spend in it. Esther has managed to say everything I wanted to say about "AI" far better and with more cross-references and authority than I ever could. In fact, I'll likely frame an upcoming blog post based around many of her observations. But don't wait for me. Read this. #AI
Why I Resist Generative “AI” – Esther Weidauer https://estherweidauer.com/articles/why-resist-generative-ai.html
I'm really having trouble getting out of bed this morning. I hate that feeling. Four ibuprofen are just kicking in. In an hour I'll take two Tylenol and I should be good to go.
I cannot tell you how much joy I feel in the morning when my dogs realize that I'm about to get up and feed them and they jump all over the king size bed and me and they jump down on the floor and then back on the bed if I don't come quick enough and they bounce around and they let me pet them. It's chaos and I love it!
Morning is off to a kind of crappy start. The pain in my finger in hand is pretty bad; I've got three ibuprofen in me now to fight back. Feeling exhausted after yesterday, but I'll definitely get the truck emptied out and put away somewhere in the garage. I think my big project today is going to be making a dolly for my dinghy so I can roll it around the garage as needed this winter. I'll need help from my neighbor to get it and its motor out of the back of my truck.
What a day! I got a ton done, delivered my boat to the ceramic coating place, and managed to get home before it got too dark.
I forgot that I had turned on notifications for this. My votes are in and have been counted!
If you haven't voted yet and you can vote early or by mail, get to it!
Whenever possible, drop off your ballot in a dropbox instead of mailing it. It speeds things up and gets one less government agency involved.😉
A friend of mine who I can't go help right now is experiencing #hallucinations after getting only 9 hours of sleep in the past 5 days. She reports that there's an old woman sitting next to her in her peripheral vision who disappears when she tries to see her clearly and that the dog toys are moving. Her husband will be home from a hunting trip in about 8 hours.
Does anyone have any advice/suggestions? #insomnia
The things that terrify me most about driving in the dark in urban areas: bicyclists, runners, and dog walkers. I passed a biker this morning with no lights or reflective gear. WTF is he thinking? How is a driver supposed to see him? The only reason I saw him was because I was looking for people like him and he was wearing a light colored hat.
PLEASE wear appropriate nighttime gear when #biking, #running, or #walking at night.
Is it the age of my truck or the sheer saturation of water in the air that is taking so long for my truck's defroster to clear the front window so I can drive?
It is 2 1/2 hours later and the coffee is still nice and warm. Almost done with it now. I am really liking this thermal mug. The difference between a crap thermal mug and a good one is the difference between night and day.
And no, it is not a Yeti. I'd like to think that I've got more brains than to throw money away on a brand.
Well, although I've been up since 3:30 AM, Rosie is now awake and telling me it's time to get my ass out of bed and take her for a walk. So I think I'll do that.
Today is haulout day and I need to run four errands with my truck before I hitch up the trailer and boat: breakfast at my favorite local place, Home Depot for some ratchet tiedown straps I forgot at home🙄, Trader Joe's, and an eye exam so I can order contacts. Restaurant opens at 6:30 AM and I'll be there.
But first, these dogs.
Unfortunately, the last person on the boat decided, for some reason, to shut off the water heater, so there was no hot water this morning. I used a pot on the stove to heat up some water and used that water to heat up my new metal travel mug. Then I made my coffee into that.
The result: my coffee is too hot to drink.🤣 (2/2)
One of the features of the single cup coffee maker I have on the boat is that it's designed for a tall travel mug, which it actually comes with. I don't like that crappy plastic mug so I usually make coffee directly into a ceramic mug that I preheat with hot water. This time, however, I bought along my new metal travel mug. (1/2)
I think the thing I hate most about my truck is that it never seems to FIT anywhere.
I have come to realize that conveyor belt sushi is one step BELOW supermarket-made sushi. #WhyAmIHere? #AtLeastTgeSakeIsGood.
This is the RAM mount used to mount a Starlink Mini to the mast on my boat. You can see that rust has gotten started under the paint. I'll probably just replace this piece instead of reinstalling it next year. The Starlink unit itself does not seem to be affected by the salt air.
Salt air and salt water are insidious.
Go home, Apple Card. You're drunk. Rio Grande is not a Mexican restaurant.
Charter guest #1: don't forget to coil the power cord up nice and neat and attach that excellent carrying strap to it.
Charter guest #2: Fuck no! Why should I waste two minutes of my time? We're getting off the boat anyway.
Person trying to protect the boat from a rough dock edge that the captain is steering into on the starboard side: "Quick! Get me the aft port side fender!"
Moronic charter guest who thought this was an appropriate way to secure a fender: "Uh... quick?"
Well, I promised myself that I would hit the ground running this morning and have failed to do so. Up at 4:30, coffee in bed as usual, catching up here, doing a few puzzles. But I really need to do is get my butt out of bed, hop in the shower, feed my pups, and prep my house and garage for a complete insect fogging. It's that time of year when the bugs come in and I won't tolerate it this year. It takes 3 foggers to do the garage and I'll use another 2 of them up here in the house. (1/2)
Fogging the garage also means confining my cat to the outdoors and my studio (already fogged; where the cat door is). That means getting his food and water in there and making sure he's in there (or outside) before I set the foggers off. Then it's off to Bellingham for a short trip to prep and move the boat. I'm looking forward to airing everything out when I get home and getting my robot vacuums going to clean up the dead bugs: mostly spiders, crickets, and a few mystery insects. (2/2)