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Oct. 30th, 2018 07:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI slept better last night. I threw everything I could think of at the headache and turned out the light as early as I could. It wasn't as early as I wanted-- Scott and Cordelia watch Legends of Tomorrow at 9 p.m. on Mondays, and Cordelia wants me awake after that.
I took Tylenol, Amerge at about 9:00 and Sudafed and naproxen about 7:00. I was aiming the naproxen at my headache, but it actually helped with the sinus itching a bit. Possibly the anti-inflammatory part helped? I used my electric heating pad on my shoulders and neck, and that helped some, too.
I think about all I managed to do yesterday was my PT. I tried to nap but couldn't quite get there. I turned off the ringer on my cell phone because I get frequent spam calls, but having it off stressed me because it meant not knowing if Cordelia was trying to reach me.
I just checked the status of my absentee ballot online. It's marked as received, so I can stop worrying about that. I've also found out that the USPS will deliver absentee ballots even with no/insufficient postage. Voters are expected to pay postage, but if they fail to, the USPS will charge the postage shortfall to a fund that the municipality has to have available for that purpose.
I finally added up my writing numbers for the month to date. I'm at 14365 words for October. That's above my lowest monthly word count this year but still not what I hoped for. For most of the prompts, I wrote about 150 words, just barely starting much longer stories. I'm interested in finishing all of those but not sure what will happen.
I have not finished my DC mini bang story. That was supposed to be posted yesterday. It's currently about 9K and not near done. There are a couple of amnesty posting days; I'll have to look them up and see if I can manage by then. I need to put it on a back burner, though, because I will be running my UCon games on the 9th and 10th of November. I have to actually have everything prepared and printed and organized by the evening of the 8th.
Right now, I'm thinking that I may go with Cowboy Bebop for setting details. Rewatching that and taking notes won't be a huge burden. I can tweak as needed and steal things from Firefly and from The Expanse. I just don't much want to (re)watch either of those.
I may crowdsource some of the character creation work. I know the roles I need the characters to fill. I'm just kind of blanking on appropriate skills. Also, real people should have a couple of things they're knowledgeable about or moderately good at that have nothing to do with their jobs or that only relate tangentially. Since I want the players to buy in, maybe I should just offer them those skill slots as fill in the blank things with numbers already assigned?
Part of me thinks that we should cancel our hotel room and just drive back and forth, but me running games so early in the mornings and Scott running well into the night makes that less feasible. I'm mainly looking at the expense of the hotel room. We have about four necessary to pay bills that would be better uses for the money. Scott put the quarterly car insurance payment last month on his credit card and put off paying a medical bill (which has now doubled because it's an ongoing thing, roughly the same cost every damned month. I'm not sure why he was surprised by that).
I'm not sure where Christmas gift money will come from this year. I think I've already spent what we might reasonably budget for me. Scott didn't tell me how tight things were, and I ended up buying some things from sock dreams, all on sale, because I needed to buy more sock glue. Wearing pretty socks is a psychological boost for me, and I don't regret having them. I just wouldn't have spent the money if I'd realized.
I need to buy some new trousers. The ones I currently have are still wearable but only marginally. Some have small holes (they're cotton blend knit fabric. Small round holes are the usual failure mode for that fabric) while others have elastic so weak that I don't dare carry my cell phone in my pocket when I go outside. I'll put them on my Christmas wishlist, but Scott's parents won't buy them because they can't get them on Amazon, and Scott won't buy them because they're no fun and because I already spent that money.
Cordelia pretty certainly needs glasses. She passed the eye exam for getting her learner's permit, but she's noticing that she has trouble seeing certain things on the board in math and science. We won't have vision coverage until January, so I'm hoping she can manage somehow. I pulled out my distance glasses, and she says they help but give her a headache if she wears them for too long. I suggested that she take them to school and just wear them when she really, really needs them. She's already getting headaches from straining to make out what's on the board.
After UCon, I'll start looking into getting her an appointment for her eyes. Ideally, an appointment in early January. I need to get my eyes checked around then and then bite the bullet to get progressives. I'm concerned that I'll have problems using progressives because I shift position and, thus, reading angle/distance about every ten minutes. Not doing that isn't an option for the rest of my body. Last year, the ophthalmologist told me that there's no way to get progressives that will work with that, and that's a big reason I haven't bothered.
I'm also very hesitant to mail order progressives based on the measurements Scott and I figured out for me when I bought reading glasses. The pupil distance being a millimeter or two off for glasses I use a couple of times a week doesn't matter so much. Also $20 glasses. Progressives cost more, and I'd be wearing them most of the time.
Writing to do list (in order of urgency):
Character sheets for UCon - I need at least 5 characters but would like to have 6-8.
I want a captain/pilot, a doctor, some sort of chaplain, a space rescue engineer, a ship's engineer, and a ship's steward. Possibly duplication on the doctor and space rescue engineer characters? Or some sort of apprentice to either?
Background write up for UCon - I need to make some decisions about the ship's affiliation and how the crew came together. That's more important than the bigger solar system setting, but the politics of different parts of the system will affect the ship's affiliation and source of funding. That, in turn, will affect how well the characters know each other to begin with.
Ship layouts for UCon - The player who designed the ship for Scott's Firefly game has given me permission to use that for the player characters' ship. He suggested some resources for designing the other ship. I haven't looked at those yet because that's a lower priority thing than getting the characters done.
Canon review for Yuletide. This is going to require extensive note taking because I need descriptive elements.
Finish DC mini bang
Write Yuletide
When Cordelia leaves, I'll move into the living room and put some Cowboy Bebop in and start taking notes.
Non-writing to do list (not in order of urgency):
Review rules for UCon board game
Fill out and mail insurance claim
Pack up an item to ship and get it to post office
Put away laundry
Wash a load of laundry
Take out trash and recycling
Cook chicken liver
Dishes
Start making packing list for UCon
I took Tylenol, Amerge at about 9:00 and Sudafed and naproxen about 7:00. I was aiming the naproxen at my headache, but it actually helped with the sinus itching a bit. Possibly the anti-inflammatory part helped? I used my electric heating pad on my shoulders and neck, and that helped some, too.
I think about all I managed to do yesterday was my PT. I tried to nap but couldn't quite get there. I turned off the ringer on my cell phone because I get frequent spam calls, but having it off stressed me because it meant not knowing if Cordelia was trying to reach me.
I just checked the status of my absentee ballot online. It's marked as received, so I can stop worrying about that. I've also found out that the USPS will deliver absentee ballots even with no/insufficient postage. Voters are expected to pay postage, but if they fail to, the USPS will charge the postage shortfall to a fund that the municipality has to have available for that purpose.
I finally added up my writing numbers for the month to date. I'm at 14365 words for October. That's above my lowest monthly word count this year but still not what I hoped for. For most of the prompts, I wrote about 150 words, just barely starting much longer stories. I'm interested in finishing all of those but not sure what will happen.
I have not finished my DC mini bang story. That was supposed to be posted yesterday. It's currently about 9K and not near done. There are a couple of amnesty posting days; I'll have to look them up and see if I can manage by then. I need to put it on a back burner, though, because I will be running my UCon games on the 9th and 10th of November. I have to actually have everything prepared and printed and organized by the evening of the 8th.
Right now, I'm thinking that I may go with Cowboy Bebop for setting details. Rewatching that and taking notes won't be a huge burden. I can tweak as needed and steal things from Firefly and from The Expanse. I just don't much want to (re)watch either of those.
I may crowdsource some of the character creation work. I know the roles I need the characters to fill. I'm just kind of blanking on appropriate skills. Also, real people should have a couple of things they're knowledgeable about or moderately good at that have nothing to do with their jobs or that only relate tangentially. Since I want the players to buy in, maybe I should just offer them those skill slots as fill in the blank things with numbers already assigned?
Part of me thinks that we should cancel our hotel room and just drive back and forth, but me running games so early in the mornings and Scott running well into the night makes that less feasible. I'm mainly looking at the expense of the hotel room. We have about four necessary to pay bills that would be better uses for the money. Scott put the quarterly car insurance payment last month on his credit card and put off paying a medical bill (which has now doubled because it's an ongoing thing, roughly the same cost every damned month. I'm not sure why he was surprised by that).
I'm not sure where Christmas gift money will come from this year. I think I've already spent what we might reasonably budget for me. Scott didn't tell me how tight things were, and I ended up buying some things from sock dreams, all on sale, because I needed to buy more sock glue. Wearing pretty socks is a psychological boost for me, and I don't regret having them. I just wouldn't have spent the money if I'd realized.
I need to buy some new trousers. The ones I currently have are still wearable but only marginally. Some have small holes (they're cotton blend knit fabric. Small round holes are the usual failure mode for that fabric) while others have elastic so weak that I don't dare carry my cell phone in my pocket when I go outside. I'll put them on my Christmas wishlist, but Scott's parents won't buy them because they can't get them on Amazon, and Scott won't buy them because they're no fun and because I already spent that money.
Cordelia pretty certainly needs glasses. She passed the eye exam for getting her learner's permit, but she's noticing that she has trouble seeing certain things on the board in math and science. We won't have vision coverage until January, so I'm hoping she can manage somehow. I pulled out my distance glasses, and she says they help but give her a headache if she wears them for too long. I suggested that she take them to school and just wear them when she really, really needs them. She's already getting headaches from straining to make out what's on the board.
After UCon, I'll start looking into getting her an appointment for her eyes. Ideally, an appointment in early January. I need to get my eyes checked around then and then bite the bullet to get progressives. I'm concerned that I'll have problems using progressives because I shift position and, thus, reading angle/distance about every ten minutes. Not doing that isn't an option for the rest of my body. Last year, the ophthalmologist told me that there's no way to get progressives that will work with that, and that's a big reason I haven't bothered.
I'm also very hesitant to mail order progressives based on the measurements Scott and I figured out for me when I bought reading glasses. The pupil distance being a millimeter or two off for glasses I use a couple of times a week doesn't matter so much. Also $20 glasses. Progressives cost more, and I'd be wearing them most of the time.
Writing to do list (in order of urgency):
Character sheets for UCon - I need at least 5 characters but would like to have 6-8.
I want a captain/pilot, a doctor, some sort of chaplain, a space rescue engineer, a ship's engineer, and a ship's steward. Possibly duplication on the doctor and space rescue engineer characters? Or some sort of apprentice to either?
Background write up for UCon - I need to make some decisions about the ship's affiliation and how the crew came together. That's more important than the bigger solar system setting, but the politics of different parts of the system will affect the ship's affiliation and source of funding. That, in turn, will affect how well the characters know each other to begin with.
Ship layouts for UCon - The player who designed the ship for Scott's Firefly game has given me permission to use that for the player characters' ship. He suggested some resources for designing the other ship. I haven't looked at those yet because that's a lower priority thing than getting the characters done.
Canon review for Yuletide. This is going to require extensive note taking because I need descriptive elements.
Finish DC mini bang
Write Yuletide
When Cordelia leaves, I'll move into the living room and put some Cowboy Bebop in and start taking notes.
Non-writing to do list (not in order of urgency):
Review rules for UCon board game
Fill out and mail insurance claim
Pack up an item to ship and get it to post office
Put away laundry
Wash a load of laundry
Take out trash and recycling
Cook chicken liver
Dishes
Start making packing list for UCon
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Date: 2018-11-04 05:02 am (UTC)