Category: status

We tend to get a false spring out here on the Thames Delta. It’s come a little earlier than usual this year, and will last for another few days before the temperature drops again. Everything in the garden is very confused, and I will have to wait another week before I do the late winter pruning.

ON DECK: All the things. Need to mark up the boards with a bunch of changes and new things. As soon as I can see properly, I’m going into two different scripts, to clear the weekend for a pitch document I need to write following yestetday’s phone conference. And also buying herself’s large and expensive birthday present. Argh.
INBOX: 61. Processing email now.
LISTENING:

I roast my own coffee beans now. These have been off-gassing for 36 hours and are good to go today. And just in time.

ON DECK: All The Things, including a phone conference tonight. Consult job, WRITTLE 2, two tv things, post-AUTHORITY news business, prepping for polish pass on DEPT MIDNIGHT scripts, and a delivery incoming from the wonderfully named Whispering Trees Nursery.
INBOX: 52. I’ll have an eye on email all day, dropping off for an hour tonight during the phoner.

SHIPPING FORECAST: Back in a bit.

ON DECK: structure document, lots of email
INBOX: 67, which I’m getting to right now
SHIPPING FORECAST: also have to go out and buy garden supplies, and the things I have to do are high-communication and high-mentation, so likely to be quiet here

ON DECK: consulting job. Figured out most of the up-front difficult stuff over the weekend, now it’s just getting the stuff done. Full focus there this week.
INBOX: 57.
READING: GUNMETAL GRAY, Mark Greaney
LAST WATCHED: JACK RYAN season 3.

SHIPPING FORECAST: I got paid, so I bought myself some dormant fruit trees.

Dougald Hine’s new book arrived from the publisher and I can’t wait to dig into it.

Newsletter went out yesterday.

SHIPPING FORECAST: This is today’s only post here, and I’m actually scheduling it in advance, because Monday is a full-stack work day.

Selecting a very specific soundtrack for today’s work.

ON DECK: big time-sensitive consulting job dropped on the deck yesterday. Did about half of the research reading yesterday, today I finish up the reading and start breaking the job down.
INBOX: 47.
READING: the London Review Of Books because I’m fancy. One of the things I like about the 21st Century is that every issue of the LRB has, for many years, been automatically sent to my Kindle on release. Long may it last.
SHIPPING FORECAST: There’s a scheduled post in the hopper for late afternoon. Otherwise, closing up for the week. Newsletter is out on Sunday. Back here Monday.

Today, I start going back into my CD library.

Turns out that people I work with do actually use the status notes to check on me!

ON DECK: I wrote most of the Sunday newsletter earlier in the week, need to go back into that and polish it off and amend the scheduler. I have two sticking points in the script in front of me that need two or three set-piece moments of invention, and I need to figure that out today.
INBOX: 39. Non-work emails being kicked to tonight/tomorrow, probably.

SHIPPING FORECAST: I read the recently updated blogs list on ooh.directory and boy are people expending a lot of energy on trying to make Mastodon work like Twitter, the Twitter they hate and want to leave but need to replicate the experience of. And then some people do, and don’t like it. (I do feel bad for him, by the way.) Off to do the things.

Achieved absolutely nothing of note yesterday other than roasting a new batch of beans.

ON DECK: probably finishing a script. Brain still feels a little AWOL – probably just powered down at a temporary lessening of the stress that’s informed the last six weeks.
INBOX: 41
LISTENING: Hypnagogue 374
LAST WATCHED: HANS ZIMMER: HOLLYWOOD REBEL

SHIPPING FORECAST: my big prodco meeting at the end of the week got pushed into next week. I have to check in on the kids later to see what’s next, but right now it looks like I have a clear run through till Sunday to focus on work and finish the notes I have in draft here. Good morning, reader.

Started three different kinds of tomato and Mignonette alpine strawberries in the propagator. 2023 is begun.

ON DECK: Honestly not sure. I think I might just see where today takes me.
INBOX: 40
LISTENING: Today, I’m just listening through my podcast queue and seeing where that takes me, too. It’s that kind of day. Every now and then, I need to just let the universe and my subconscious take the wheel.

STATUS: I cannot feel my bloody fingers

ON DECK: Not sure. I have some paperwork to do to get paid on things, I have a script half-written that needs some thinking
INBOX: 85, and I need to deal with that. So I will be available by email for a lot of the day.
LISTENING:

READING: Back to THE OLD WAYS by Robert Macfarlane
LAST WATCHED: rewatched DUNE – being a member of the WGA means I got a DVD screener of it, and I’m pretty sure I’m wearing it out, just studying Villeneuve, Spaihts and Roth’s decision-making.

SHIPPING FORECAST: I’ve already banked a bunch of pieces for this week, and I’m hoping to bring LTD properly up to speed.