Category: status

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.

Beautiful morning.

I forgot it was April the First, which is amateur’s day on the internet. So anything other than direct contact from verified humans is being turned off today, and I’ll have to waste time tomorrow locating and removing the april-fool fake posts from my RSS feed.

ON DECK: Script, and returning to consult 2/2024. I fell about 16pp short of my March target (technically only around 8pp, but I’m still moving stuff around in that script so none of the pages qualify as finished)
INBOX: 93. I have a bunch of stuff in there to process out as soon as I can see straight.
OPERATIONS: I need to check out early today, as some of the tomato plants in the indoor propagator are getting tall and need potting on and storing in one of the mini-greenhouses.
LISTENING: Added some US election-related podcasts to my list last night, going to listen through them today and decide which I want to keep: Americast, FiveThirtyEight Politics, Somebody’s Gotta Win
CONDITION: Mancub slapped me awake at 7am.

The clocks have gone forward, and I am groggy and not remotely with it. I have to figure out the back end of this script. Fresh start tomorrow.

There is life.

Landed episode one of a thing yesterday, going to see if I can land episode 2 this weekend, giving me a clean desk for Monday 1 April.

ON DECK: Right now, finishing the newsletter.
INBOX: 83, just about to start filing things away
OPERATIONS: from Monday, my days shift a little, and I can get back to making notes here – I have a bunch of material backed up. I also start a new Moleskine notebook on Monday.
LISTENING:

CONDITION: 8hrs on the dot, in two phases because the mancub felt the need to wake me for attention at 8am.
THINKING ABOUT: New material. Which is ridiculous, as I have 20 scripts to write in the next few months, but that’s how my brain works (or doesn’t)

Incredible windstorm last night, but this morning the blueberry started flowering.

I’m across the back half of a script and the final sections of the newsletter today, and the clock is ticking, so this is another single-post day in the notebook.