Sadly, I can’t talk about a lot that happened this week.  Work was crazy busy, which left me exhausted nearly every day.  The energy I had at the start of the week was used to do Pokémon Go with my son after homework.  Once I got over the hump, I constantly dragged myself through my afternoons.  Glad I didn’t make many goals that weren’t automatic.

I’m finally getting to Darwin & the Halfling Hunt today.  With me being so tired and distracted, I knew I couldn’t tackle it during the week.  My hope is to get through at least 4 chapters by the end of the weekend.  I have stuff to do this morning, so I’ll probably only make it to 3, but I have hope.  Since I’ve never edited this book beyond checking after I finish and random section edits, I know I need time and focus.  This is always the big one where I pay attention to continuity and making sure the scenes aren’t bloated or bare bones.  All of the books going forward are going to be hefty editing projects, so 2024 might end up being the year of editing.  Nothing wrong with that since I crossed the midway mark with Darwin & the Beast Collector.  Looking forward to this project too and hope to tinker with it throughout the week.

Work was busy and it ended with me doing a supervision for a big event called Showdown.  It’s where the grades compete against each other and I went to support a student.  After a rough week, it was great to spend a few hours with this student who is full of energy and excitement.  Another student joined us, so we were a fun trio enjoying the event.  Definitely the pick-me-up that I needed to start off a weekend of editing.  I sure these times are the memories I’m going to hold onto instead of the stuff that happens every day.  I mean, that’s how cherished memories work, right?

The only other success of the week was finishing the April blog posts and starting in on the May ones.  Not exciting, but I like to get things set up far enough ahead that I don’t have to create blog posts every day.  I managed to do this because I kept ending my day with only 30 minutes before I had to crawl into bed.  Didn’t feel like enough to settle down and watch an episode.  Since Crunchyroll was giving me trouble, I started ‘Resident Alien’ on Netflix.  Those are longer episodes, so I couldn’t get further than the second episode before the weekend.  Saw that one of my favorite anime was coming to Netflix on April 1st too.  ‘Great Teacher Onizuka’ was fun and I think I’ll jump over to it as soon as it’s live.

This coming week is going to be as crazy as the last one.  Need to take a day off for medical stuff, which is improving.  Maybe I’ll get more editing done on that day too.  Beyond all of that, I don’t have much else planned.  Pokemon Go with my son as usual when homework is done.  March always seems to be this long slog to Easter/Spring Break.  Even when it isn’t 6 weeks or more long.  Probably the weather not making up its mind if it wants to be the 30’s or 70’s.  That could be what’s giving me some health issues too, so it’s on the list to check.

Can’t think of anything else to talk about.  I would mention the nightmarish puzzle I’m working on, but . . . Ugh.  It’s 500 pieces with a fuzzy picture on the box and pieces.  A bunch of sections are pure white with pieces that all fit together.  I had to flip the thing upside down to match of the letters on the back in the hopes of getting it right.  Took me ALL week to get those white sections set up.  Now, I’m struggling to figure out if I’m looking at one character’s arm or another character’s face.  Can’t wait for this one to be done, glued, and put in the pile.

Oh, my ‘Best of Prince’ CD came in too.  Didn’t realize ‘Purple Rain’ was over 8 minutes long, but it’s nice to have playing on the commute into work.

Goals of the week?

1. Start editing Darwin & the Halfling Hunt.
2. Help son with homework.
3. Pokemon Go outings.
4. May blog post work when time allows.
5. Prepare lunches, which might just be rice bowls.  (Tofu and pineapple were great, but I’m trying tofu and broccoli this time.)
6. Vacu . . . Eh, that one can wait.
7. Sleep, biking, and laundry.  Not at same time if possible.
8. Finish watching ‘Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles’ and continue watching ‘Resident Alien’.
9. Continue improving my health.