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Yesterday, for most of the day, I felt like only half of my brain was working and like that half was moving sluggishly. I managed to go along for the library trip because I wanted to let someone at the library know that some CDs in the sets I was returning wouldn't play. Scott won't do that part because it's too complicated and adds considerably to the time required for the trip.

After the library, Cordelia wanted to go to Espresso Royale, so Scott dropped her and me there while he went on to pick up a couple of things at Kroger (a few doors down). Cordelia had a chai latte which seems to have come out the way she expected it to. I had a ginger dragon which is normally gingery with lemon and a bit of sweetness. Yesterday, it might have been straight lemon juice.

I probably should have complained, but I didn't want to make more work for the barista who seemed to be alone in the place.

Last week, on my way out to Skyline, I walked by a park entrance sign that wasn't an Ingress portal. I submitted it as a potential, and it got approved. This was my third suggestion but the first accepted. I have no idea how it's possible that that wasn't a portal before. Park signs are pretty much always accepted, and this one was on a major street and part of a big park that has internal portals. Of course, there was another entrance I passed that wasn't a portal either. I didn't submit it because I was trying to hurry to catch my bus (which I missed).

I have my Yuletide assignment. I've dug out as much of the canon as I can reach. I'll have to wait for Cordelia to help me move things in the basement before I can get the rest. I think this one will be fairly straightforward once I find a way into the POV character's head.

There's a pinch hit I'm eying and hoping someone else takes before I can overcome my common sense. I'm looking at the other lingering ones and wondering how hard acquiring the canons would be. I'm mainly protected from that by having zero clue whether any of them are things I'd like or could write (not the same things).

I need to give some other things priority over writing the Yuletide story, however. I still have a big beta job to complete. The DC mini bang story is due Monday and still incomplete (maybe half done?). UCon starts on the 9th of November, and I need characters and a setting and a rough outline for my rpg scenario. I also need to review the rules for the board game I'm going to run. I keep forgetting nuances. (My best bet for this is to retype the rules. That seems to help me set the information in my head. It's not as good as copying by hand, but I can't actually do that any more, so... Typing.)

Right now, I'm thinking that I'll knock off the short daily chores and then try to use a timer to rotate through tasks. I'm not sure what a good length of time is for that. I'm pretty sure I could do some things with 20-30 minute stints, but I have trouble getting myself to focus on other things in that frame.

I also wrote a 4K Amber story over the weekend while I couldn't manage other things. It needs editing, and I probably won't get that done for a few days. Part of that is that I'm afraid that, if I dig into it, I'll look up and realize that I've spent a week on it and expanded it to 20K words that could become 100K. I enjoy those stories, but I have things I need to get done right now.

I'm way, way behind on my October daily challenge, but I'm not looking at that right now. I don't really have time to try to catch up. That would require starting 20 fics by the end of the day on Halloween. Not happening. But, hey, I wrote for 10 prompts and attempted one more.

My hands, elbow, and neck/shoulder are hurting a lot this morning. That last pops and crunches when I roll it (this is the bit between the joint and the neck rather than the joint). I'm not sure what to do about this. I'm trying to keep the Tylenol to only night time because 24/7 would be a risky thing for my liver. My other option is naproxen which I limit because my genotype doesn't metabolize it really well (other NSAID are worse).