Steven Harper Piziks

Stuff going on:
-- I am now prepping to start on the Decline and Fall project once more, though I still need to work on actually starting in the first place. I've put some index cards in my satchel to work on ideas and whatnot.
-- Congestion has been getting the best of me at night, blocking my ears and waking me up. Must remind myself to take some Benadryl before going to bed tonight. It's all been making me tired and sleepy.
-- Ants! Dang ants have decided to pop in under the kitchen window. Baits have been put out and temporary tape has been put over where they're coming in.

Stuff done:
-- That one shift at my old shop has come and gone with little incident, and yet it laid bare the reasons why I requested a transfer. I have my thoughts about that shift that I'll keep to myself, but I'll just say once again that I am much happier and calmer at the shop I'm at now.
-- Somewhat of a half-lazy Sunday here, in which we did our grocery shopping, followed by a walk to the community garden plot to water and fix a few things, walk over to 9th and Irving for lunch, and enjoy some coffee on the way back. 
-- Laundry completed, shredding caught up. Blog updating as we speak.

Stuff in the future:
-- I have this Thursday off, which will give me a break after two opens and a midshift, though that's also the day when I'm getting the permanent crown put on for that tooth. The good thing is that we'll probably decide what else needs to be fixed.
-- Speaking of taping windows to block ants, I really need to get around to caulking those frames. I've just been too distracted. Now that I've caught up on several other household fixes (did the shower tiles a while back), this should be next.

Stuff going on:
-- The one midshift for the week has been completed and I have today off, which means that the next three days will be opens. One 8:30am start and two store opens (4am on Friday, and 5:30am on Saturday in which I'm opening my old shop). 
-- Said day off includes laundry and giving the cats more attention than necessary.
-- Finally submitted the request to get reimbursed for the dental stuff, and got an email today saying it was authorized. Yay! This makes further dental work worth the aggravation and pain. I've got another appointment on the 28th to get that one temp crown replaced with a permanent one. We'll see where it goes from there.
-- Making a concerted effort to read more of the physical books gathering dust near my bed. Current reading: Bill Janovitz's Let the Stories Be Told, about the band The Cars.

Stuff done:
-- The garage storage room has been slightly reorganized, as it seems most of it was in pretty good shape to begin with. I merely needed to move a few things such as: the old side table we aren't using towards the door (for Storage of Small Things); the holiday and wrapping stuff in one area, all artwork that isn't currently on walls safely in a box; various boxes of collectibles, tchotchkes and desk cluttering toys placed in one central office box; the remaining boxes of books stacked all together for future sorting. Empty boxes have been broken down and placed in the Empty Box Box elsewhere in the garage. The floor is now a little easier to navigate.
-- Watered the garden and front plots the other day as we've had a warm spell in the city the last few days. Might need to do it again in the next day or so.
-- I finally finished up a few new mixtapes! Woohoo! And I've even got a few more going! I miss making them, as I didn't have the spoons to do so last year. I haven't decided on any titles (series or stand-alone) just yet, as I want them to be just different enough from their forebears.

Stuff in the future:
-- I'll have to find time to go through those last remaining boxes of books to see if I want to save any. I probably don't need them, but it's worth looking through.
-- Restart the Great Longhand Writing Scan Project again. Probably in a few weeks. I think the best idea is to bring up a little at a time instead of a big honking storage bin; that is, go project by project. Finish scanning The Phoenix Effect and start in on the poetry composition books.
-- There's a good chance I might pick up the Walk in Silence (book) project again, in tandem with the more fictional The Decline and Fall of Western Massachusetts. One of the mixtapes I've made recently was for the fiction book, which carries on from its 2024 first volume with several songs from the 1984-1989 era.
-- Semi-related: I've been toying with the idea of working on the latter by waking up the 750 Words site again. No solid plans on that yet, though.

Things done:

-- Watered our plot at the community garden and the two sidewalk squares in front of our building. Meant to do that last week but ran out of time and spoons. 
-- Bedsheets washed and a new set put on. Juli 'helped' in her own cattish way.
-- Gave Juli far too many pettins already, as she is now begging for even more.
-- Watered the house plants as they were all looking a bit shrivelly. 
-- Blogging and journaling kept up. Yay!

Things to do:

-- I still need to reorganize the garage storage room, but that should not take more than an hour at most. I just want to make it a little more accessible, and to put the stuff I don't need right away further in the back. As for the books that are in there, I'll do a quick save-or-donate. I think most of them are manga titles so I'll see if I still want them.
-- Still need to reorganize my writing bins in the garage. That could take longer so I'll have to do that on one of my days off during the week.
-- Restart the longhand scan project. This is going to take some time, and it's a little noisy so it'll be a weekend/evening thing when A isn't in the office working. I'd already started on scanning The Phoenix Effect before we moved, so I'll continue on that, then work on whatever might be next. I was thinking perhaps the poem/lyric notebooks, as I know those would be relatively quick and easy to do.

Things going on:

-- On the 23rd I will be the opening bookkeeper at my old shop, due to a slight scheduling hiccup (the main BK on vacation, the backup taking a day off, with no one filling in). No problem by me other than it would have been nice to let me and my current main BK know this before this past Monday. It'll be a bit weird to be back there, but I am curious as to how things are in my absence, and who will be my openers, heh. Am also hoping that it won't be another case of BK work with a pinch of twelve other responsibilities for flavor.
-- Work on Theadia is still eluding me, though I think I'm starting to figure out why. I'm not entirely happy about it, but it is what it is, and I'll have to deal with it how I can. I'll post something about it on Friday at the writing blog.