Writing this courtesy of satellite internet, now attached to the side of our house. Woohoo! Faster intarwebs!
Work has been very much of the meh today; it’s not that anything in particular has gone so horribly wrong, but generally, what I’ve worked on today was unpleasant. Then again, maybe I’m the one that’s meh and unpleasant..? [...]

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I desperately wanted to call this version Saturnine, but unfortunately I’m not “dark-featured” and I’m not really “mysterious”. “Moody” however, I’ve got covered… (though I’m working to grind off that particular facet of myself.) The masthead for version 20 is Saturn; the full image features an electrical storm photographed by Cassini, shown in exaggerated color.
I’ve [...]

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I’ve spent the past few day settling in with my “new” computer, settling down to some new routines, and trying to change the way I approach the things I try to do during the day. I’ve been somewhat successful at working in some freewrite time during the day, and I’m slowly getting back into a [...]

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I have a terrible time with self-discipline. Very hard to make myself do anything, at times. Anything that stresses me out or intimidates me, anything I dread, gets pushed aside so I can procrastinate on something else. Mostly I fritter time away online (although I removed some of the larger time-frittering activities recently.)
I’ve been working [...]

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The problem with getting deep about my writing and choice of genres is that then — if you’re me — you have an incredibly strange week and spend what little time you have trying to catch up on work. And no time whatsoever on writing. And then feel lame because you haven’t written.
So the most [...]

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Last night the monitor heater started making a peculiar knocking noise, which led to the discovery that we were completely, utterly out of fuel. Since our water heater is also fuel-powered, this meant no heat AND no hot water. Fortunately I found a company delivering to our area today (as opposed to Thursday, Friday… lovely.) [...]

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No matter how gigantic my problems seem to me, my God is bigger than they are. Every single time, God is bigger. If I take one single step of faith, God will clear the way for victory. I needed to be reminded of that this morning. The problems, they seem slightly less large.

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