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mdlbearToday I am thankful for...
NO thanks for getting old. Sure, it beats the alternative. But it still sucks.
mdlbearA couple of good things happened, but I also procrastinated way too much, which increases the stress level for this week. So does that make it a good week or a bad week? Maybe not.
So let's start with the good stuff for a change: N's book, The World as It Ought To
Be, has been published! The eBook can be had right now from
Smashwords,
which has a free
sample you can read online. My signal boost post
from yesterday lists more sellers. Go take a look -- it's hopepunk,
solarpunk, protopian gentle fiction, and if you're a fan of ysabetwordsmith's Terramagne poems, you'll probably like it.
Also, according to pv magazine International, Solar tops [the] EU power mix in June with [a] record 22% share. And I got my flu and pneumonia jabs, to go with CCOVID last week.
Somewhere in between, I had a gastroscopy Wednesday -- I'll find out the results this coming Friday. I don't expect really bad news, but they sent me away with a prescription for a proton pump inhibitor.
On the down side, I've procrastinated a whole lot, with the result that the HyperSpace Express website needed some fast work, and needs more this week. So do my US federal income taxes. Our plans for the Kaleidofolk studio album are slightly up in the air at this point, only in part because I haven't been practicing enough. And I still don't have a medical alarm pendant.
If time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once, it's not working! And I'm not helping.
And on the way down side, of course, the US is still in the hands of a fascist regime led by a convicted felon and his gang of thugs and unindicted traitors, and I'm extremely worried about my friends and family members who are still there. Not to mention the planet.
mdlbearIf you've been following this blog for the last year you will have run across references to our little publishing business, HyperSpace Express (often abbreviated HSX). And you may have noticed that my housemate N has been writing a book. IT'S FINISHED!
Go take a look at The World as It Ought to Be -- Stories from a protopian future, by Naomi Rivkis.
It's protopian rather than utopian -- sixteen linked short stories about ordinary people building a world that doesn't suck.
Protopia (n.) A world that is not perfect, but is getting better; one that is on the long arc toward justice, carried by human hands.
( Come visit for a while in The World As It Ought to Be: )
Buy it now from Smashwords (which has a free sample you can read online). It's also available at Kobo, Apple, and Barnes&Noble. Kindle and dead tree editions are coming in a few weeks.
mdlbearToday I am thankful for...
mdlbearMixed, as usual. Four walks (which sounds good except that the total was only 2.9km), a little work on the HSX website (fixing a busted link counts, right?), and a little work in the recording studio (with disappointingly little to show for it). Pretty sure I'm not getting enough sleep, either, although it's been somewhat better now that I'm using the duvet and duvet cover (a bit of a weighted blanket effect?), and going to bed a little later.
Lots of difficulty with motivation. Nothing new there, either.
N and G are going to be gone for two weeks (plus a bit) at the end of the month. I have been looking into "personal alarm" buttons/pendants, in case I need emergency help. Somewhat problematic.
Here, have an amusing link: Portlanders mock Trump by posting pics of peaceful weekend activities in ‘War ravaged’ city | The Independent.
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