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Aug. 30th, 2020 10:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI'm still not reading here regularly. I'm reading more library books, both ebooks and paper, and finding other ways to fill my time. I get a bit overwhelmed when I think about trying to catch up.
I'm also still having a lot of hand/wrist issues. I've figured out how to minimize the pain and numbness, but I'm still prone to misjudging how long I can afford to keep typing. It doesn't usually hit me until hours later, sometimes, even a day later. The problems accumulate.
Cordelia took part two of drivers' training last week. It was several hours of lecture followed by a test. The class was held in the parking lot with each student bringing their own chair. They skipped the films they'd normally have shown.
We haven't tried to schedule the actual licensing test. Cordelia wants more time to practice parallel parking since she's not comfortable with that yet.
I've written a couple of exchange stories that haven't yet been revealed, and I'm working on three different writing projects and trying to figure out how I want to deal with UCon. That last requires some experimentation with platforms and with what our WiFi can handle in terms of me and Scott running games at the same time. I've asked Scott for help, but this is the worst time of year for scheduling anything that needs his participation.
The two probable options are him running in BlueJeans while I run in Discord or both of us running in BlueJeans. He's spending a lot of time working on investigating other platforms so that UCon can give their potential GMs some solid information about their options. I could probably get by with audio only and maybe some stuff on Gdocs, but I'd like to have video, too.
My body has reset the clock on menopause again. This period has been going for two weeks now.
I've got two completed stories in exchange collections that haven't yet revealed. I'll be able to claim one of those stories in slightly more than a week. The other will remain a mystery work for several weeks longer.
The Sky High fic I just posted is one of my projects for FEARbuddies. I still have two or three things for that. Small FEAR ends 30 September, and I'd like to complete at least one more short story. Big FEAR ends 11 December; I haven't started really working on that one yet.
I've got about 25% of the word count I need for FFFex, but that's not due until January, so I'm not concerned about hurrying the story along. Also, my recipient's prompts gave me an abundance of options; I could have written for four of their requests. I didn't offer all of those, but they're all things I'd have fun with.
I'm waiting for my assignment for Fic in a Box which is another high word count exchange that will be due in mid-October. We're supposed to have those some time early this week, and I'm eager to see what I matched on.
Tonight's Zoom call with Scott's family revealed that his father is under the weather. Scott's father insists that there's zero chance it could be COVID, but Scott's mother didn't support him. They were both on screen at once, and she didn't look at him at all while he was saying it. She also didn't look at the screen or react at all, so I'm concerned.
Scott's father seemed to view the question of whether or not he might have it as a political gotcha! that he wasn't going to fall for. We haven't had any luck convincing him to stay home. He's been working an assortment of delivery jobs simply because he can't stand being 'useless.' I think he's still invested in the idea that he's one of the people who supports his community as opposed to someone who needs (or accepts) community support.
If he admits to the latter, he admits that he's getting old, but... He's closer to 80 than he is to 70.
I'm having trouble managing my library holds. The decontamination delays and low staffing levels make it difficult to judge how long something will take. I've been trying to request only things that are actually on the shelf at the branch where we pick up holds, but it still sometimes takes two weeks for those to be available. I don't think there are good options in that direction in terms of predictability.
I want 4-8 CDs, 1-3 DVDs, and about 10 books (counting comics/graphic novels) a week. I'll only ever finish about half of those books, but it's usually not due to running out of time as much as there being a lot of things that I get a little way into and just don't want to finish.
I'm also still having a lot of hand/wrist issues. I've figured out how to minimize the pain and numbness, but I'm still prone to misjudging how long I can afford to keep typing. It doesn't usually hit me until hours later, sometimes, even a day later. The problems accumulate.
Cordelia took part two of drivers' training last week. It was several hours of lecture followed by a test. The class was held in the parking lot with each student bringing their own chair. They skipped the films they'd normally have shown.
We haven't tried to schedule the actual licensing test. Cordelia wants more time to practice parallel parking since she's not comfortable with that yet.
I've written a couple of exchange stories that haven't yet been revealed, and I'm working on three different writing projects and trying to figure out how I want to deal with UCon. That last requires some experimentation with platforms and with what our WiFi can handle in terms of me and Scott running games at the same time. I've asked Scott for help, but this is the worst time of year for scheduling anything that needs his participation.
The two probable options are him running in BlueJeans while I run in Discord or both of us running in BlueJeans. He's spending a lot of time working on investigating other platforms so that UCon can give their potential GMs some solid information about their options. I could probably get by with audio only and maybe some stuff on Gdocs, but I'd like to have video, too.
My body has reset the clock on menopause again. This period has been going for two weeks now.
I've got two completed stories in exchange collections that haven't yet revealed. I'll be able to claim one of those stories in slightly more than a week. The other will remain a mystery work for several weeks longer.
The Sky High fic I just posted is one of my projects for FEARbuddies. I still have two or three things for that. Small FEAR ends 30 September, and I'd like to complete at least one more short story. Big FEAR ends 11 December; I haven't started really working on that one yet.
I've got about 25% of the word count I need for FFFex, but that's not due until January, so I'm not concerned about hurrying the story along. Also, my recipient's prompts gave me an abundance of options; I could have written for four of their requests. I didn't offer all of those, but they're all things I'd have fun with.
I'm waiting for my assignment for Fic in a Box which is another high word count exchange that will be due in mid-October. We're supposed to have those some time early this week, and I'm eager to see what I matched on.
Tonight's Zoom call with Scott's family revealed that his father is under the weather. Scott's father insists that there's zero chance it could be COVID, but Scott's mother didn't support him. They were both on screen at once, and she didn't look at him at all while he was saying it. She also didn't look at the screen or react at all, so I'm concerned.
Scott's father seemed to view the question of whether or not he might have it as a political gotcha! that he wasn't going to fall for. We haven't had any luck convincing him to stay home. He's been working an assortment of delivery jobs simply because he can't stand being 'useless.' I think he's still invested in the idea that he's one of the people who supports his community as opposed to someone who needs (or accepts) community support.
If he admits to the latter, he admits that he's getting old, but... He's closer to 80 than he is to 70.
I'm having trouble managing my library holds. The decontamination delays and low staffing levels make it difficult to judge how long something will take. I've been trying to request only things that are actually on the shelf at the branch where we pick up holds, but it still sometimes takes two weeks for those to be available. I don't think there are good options in that direction in terms of predictability.
I want 4-8 CDs, 1-3 DVDs, and about 10 books (counting comics/graphic novels) a week. I'll only ever finish about half of those books, but it's usually not due to running out of time as much as there being a lot of things that I get a little way into and just don't want to finish.
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Date: 2020-08-31 12:18 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2020-08-31 03:07 pm (UTC)I hope Scott's parents are okay!