Category: status

God, I am glad to see the back of that week. Today I need to finish prepping the newsletter for release tomorrow, and start pulling together the pages of scribbled notes I made during my phone conference yesterday, which may involve having to translate my own handwriting. But I need to get that done so I can start drafting a document next week. Next week is going to be nothing but outlining and document-structuring, I think. This means there will probably be more notes here, as I will seek to distract myself from the mind-destroying nature of that work.

All that said: we’re coming up on the middle of April, so I may just spend today sowing some seeds. The phone says it’s 17 C out there…

This is a Zitava pepper. I’ve managed to make two. This is the earliest I’ve been able to raise them. I almost got fruits on one two years ago. I think I have a shot at getting some this year. I’m going to try and germinate another round at the weekend, but according to the books that’ll be it, as they need a long growing season.

ON DECK: Newsletter, as I only have 300 words down as of this morning. Finishing out consult 2/2024.
INBOX: 74
OPERATIONS: I have a Zoom call with producers at 5pm. Need to do some light reconfiguration on a few things, but by 5pm, every day this week so far, I’ve been too fried to do much other than write down a few notes.
LISTENING:

READING: Still reading NUCLEAR WAR, A SCENARIO, which is fully fucking horrible now. I should not be reading about melting bodies and global doom before sleep probably
CONDITION: Frazzled. But we’re getting there.

So Jetpack has decided this is a commercial site, and now wants to charge me a tenner a month for access to site stats. Therefore, going forward, I will have no idea how many people are reading this notebook. That… actually might kind of suit me. It’s annoying in one sense, because I will lose sight of weirdness in traffic and various other things. On the other hand, it’s all one less thing to think about.

As is the project that blew up on me earlier this week, the new car I just had to buy, the various bills and expenses I had to pay this week, and everything else that happened – it was like three months’ worth of events crammed into three days.

The above shot from the new NOSFERATU is the new “this is fine.”

But I’m on the edge of finishing consult 2/2024 today, breaking ground on Sunday’s newsletter, and figuring things out.

Cold grey morning.

ON DECK: aiming for eight pages of script today, but if the first part goes well, I may just push hard and go for twelve. Broke ground on consult 3/2024 last night, which could probably run me into June all on its own, and we have a cover for PROJECT EXPLOITS RIVER.
INBOX: 50. I need to do another pass and reply to some stuff, but am open for business.
OPERATIONS: Yesterday was a clusterfuck in several ways, but it’s all getting taken care of
LISTENING:

READING: NUCLEAR WAR, A SCENARIO, which probably isn’t bedtime reading
CONDITION: 8hrs 42mins sleep after an exhausting day, could have used another hour frankly. Weirdly, the Fitbit claims a sleep score of 91, which may be my best ever. Certainly the best in many many weeks. I have lingering muscle pain and very bleary blurry eyes
THINKING ABOUT: the pot of fresh eggs in the kitchen, and wondering if I have any chives left. I got bought a pair of these for Xmas, and they are life changing:

Herb-cutting scissors! I had no idea such a thing existed

Blew off the weekend to do physical labour and woolgather. Today, all kinds of different parts of me hurt, and I have to shift gears into work mode. No more randomly streaming old tv shows while I noodle at structures and scene ideas. Eight typed finished pages every day this week or else. Probably eight typed finished pages every day this month. And then sowing seeds for an hour after work every evening.

And, while I was typing that, I was informed that we need to buy a new car. AND the coffee machine is starting to produce short shots, so I need to clean that. It’s going to be a day. Here we go.

Too much other stuff to do today to make any notes here, so here’s the mancub on the prowl earlier.

Spring rains this morning. Not ideal – I’m still dealing with a little back pain, but I was hoping to get out there today, plant a couple of trees and do some weeding. I have some eyestrain this morning, so getting away from screens for a while seemed like a good idea. But! I haven’t done enough scripting this week, so I need to push it some more.

There are plenty of worse things in the world than a bleary eye and a twinge of lower back ache. I turned a king-size mattress on my own yesterday, and I can still pull a twelve-foot tree out by its roots. Wrote something in the region of 70 pages of script last month, not counting other documents. I have a lot still to do, and that’s good.

Just discovered this via Night Tracks. It’s a good and lively start to the day.

Big physical pain day. I get these occasionally. No big deal, but they slow me down a bit. I’ve started work on Sunday’s newsletter, picking at script and peering at my email.

God, I don’t want to be in this chair today. I want to be outside cutting down and chipping stuff and digging out weeds and planting a couple of things while the mancub here stares at me disdainfully. But there’s stuff to do, and the weather is “changeable,” which in England means it was brilliant sun five minutes ago and it will be hailing five minutes from now, so I’m going to put up with the pain and start breaking more script down.

ON DECK: script breakdowns, some character sketches to look at, a few work emails to write. and a friend’s deck to process.
INBOX: 77, and a bunch of those are delivery notifications for things arriving today.
OPERATIONS: figuring out how to fit more physical media in my office. I have my eye on some blu-ray box sets.
LISTENING: Night Tracks in one early, Bloomberg Daybreak in the other, currently.