/11oct2021

After a few days of post-fall recovery and continued mending, K returns to work today, wristbrace in tow, rocking the pro-bowler look. Instructions / desires relayed to her as she exited: be careful, stay vertical. Please.

In The Work: a title for The Main Thing found and no I'm not going to reveal it anytime soon. Also, slowly working my way towards a solution to my main issue with zettel / Obsidian method: because of all the sheets, figuring out where to start each morning is a bit of a chore. A fix is coming together / becoming apparent: work from a single sheet broken into dates, but with deeper, separate offshoots. Efforts to walk the line between chaos and too much control.

Finished Viet Thanh Nguyen's THE COMMITTED last night: haven't decided if I loved it. Something never clicked with me though I don't have a clue as to what that something is; that said, I'll read anything he writes because of the briliance of his rhythm and voice but this one nonethless left me a bit cold, so far. Retrospection might change that.

ICYMI: released, Marionette, the first of my Etudes – microfiction conceived, written, and published on a single weekend. Will defnitely do more of these, but only when I feel like it. A pleasant palette-cleanser and a worthwhile experiment.

Squarespace still broken: while I have my workarounds that they must exist at all is more than a bit annoying.

Morning catch/fetch, then back to work.

New Etude: MARIONETTE

Unveiling the first of my Etudes, a new experiment / challenge I started this weekend to cleanse my narrative palette in the throes of Main Thing work: microfictions written, from chickenscratch to consumption public, on a single weekend, accompanied by a piece of featured “art” (as it’s “art” by my hand, I’m using the term in the loosest, most charitable form possible), shared above. 

Here’s the first effort, MARIONETTE, written from Saturday morning through just now. (I seem to be using my music notation again.) My part is done – hope you enjoy.

/10oct2021

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Weird morning, temperature and color palette-wise, but such is whatever passes for Fall in this slice of heartlandia, "Welcome Friends!" on the porch, "Tumor2024: Fuck Your Feelings" in the half-opened garage (yes this is a nearby house – and, yes, I'm continuing my Tumor naming because I wont denigrate my thoughtspace with its name).

In other news: the in-lawn is mowed, BLACK WIDOW is, so far, so-so – but Malia J's SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT is stunning – and I've returned to Kamurocho in YAKUZA 3 because THE AVENGERS finally repeated its way into monotony and deletion.

The new thing is about to launch / watch this space.

Back to work.

/09oct2021

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New maybe thing mentioned yesterday will be a real, definite, in-the-wild thing tomorrow: a fun little experiment, a weekend diversion – a way to get my brain to fiddle with something different, unclog, push myself to make a single-spoon meal quickly and share it publicly before diving back into the Main Thing(s) at hand.

(Could the single-spoon become larger parts of the Main Things later or Main Things themselves? Sure – but for now, tomorrow will be all that they will be.)

Other items: still trying to figure out a comment system but peculiarities that I can't reconcile with Squarespace's templates are causing much head-scratching and consternation (probably over nothing)... wrapped up the first season of OZARK last night: Ruth is one of the best characters to come around in ages... and, while I still enjoy Square Enix's THE AVENGERS, it's becoming overly-complex, repetitive, and more fuel for my fire that says I wish they'd done a third DEUS EX game instead – but Disney money so there you go.

Workday is done; the day's run and the in-lawn await. Let the games begin.

/08oct2021

More dense fog has lifted.

The morning's hope: that Squarespace updates their now-fucked-beyond-all-recognition iPadOS app: can't add links to posts, can't re-order the nav menu... timing of these upfucks more than a bit frustrating as I've a.) paid for another year and b.) have started pushing forward with new things, all of which revolved around the stability and utility of this space.

But, other pleasantries:

I love STAR WARS: VISIONS: the first episode was a spectacular Kurosawa/Leone/Hammett RED HARVEST tribute and the second, "Tatooine Rhapsody," was SCOTT PILGRIM-meets-STAR WARS remix genius. (That they're 15 minutes each makes them even more wonderful: perfect pre-bed watches.)

K's doing better. A few days of rest seems to be helping; the weekend should help more.

Speaking of "new things" being pushed forward: came up with something this morning that I want to try over the weekend: if it works, it'll be a fun new thing; if it fails, I've only lost a weekend and might have the starts for something longer-term. Breakfast blood sugar was 140 so I'm reasonably certain that this thing isn't a byproduct of hyperglycemic mental haranguings.

Oh, and THE GROUND LOOP has returned. Now, if only I could update my nav menu pages. Ahem, Squarespace...