What's Going On With Me Right Now
Aug. 17th, 2024 12:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nyykiI'm about 18k words into the story I'm working on, and I don't think I'm going to be able to get this to 40k -- there's not enough story there unless I conclude the first part and move on to another story with the same main character. The first novel in this series is about a character getting introduced into a subculture and bringing great change to it because the character is introducing the values and concepts of the larger culture to the subculture. The second one is about eight people either mentioned in the first novel or with smaller parts, and how they seek community in the different culture evolved in the first novel. This one is about an outsider who isn't as dynamic as the first main character, and who has significant social and self-image issues, getting introduced to the subculture while trying to find a lost sibling. I don't know if this one can go the distance -- the first one is 1045 pages, the second is a scant 452. There'll be an anthology of much shorter stuff somewhere in all of this too.
It's that time again, doctor visits. Monday will start early, because my appointment is for 7:30am, and since it's an annual visit it'll take all morning. On the plus side, we'll be in the neck of the woods near the social security office, and I need to file my name change with them, so my roommate, who doesn't do sit and wait well at all, will pop in there to get the right form and maybe while waiting for the different phases of the visit we can get it filled out. Maybe we can even file it on the way back home. It'll be something off the list of things needed to get done -- the DMV is so backed up it'll be months before I can get an updated state ID, and by then I hope my passport is here, which will mean I don't have to get a state ID anyway.
The solar array seems to be doing a great job for me. What people in other parts of the world call a heat advisory we refer to as August, so my friends' electrical bills are crazy high. Mine, on the other hand, is not, and I didn't get a bill for June because my solar cells covered not only the wattage charges but also the fees. My new solar plan is giving me more payback (the company seems dedicated to this, because all of their plans have solar buyback), so I might get way ahead on the power bills. It's also nice to know that when everyone else is under power shortfalls I'm ahead of the game.
In case anyone was wondering, Dixie remains a dog. She doesn't mind that at all, and I think she looks down her long nose at us a bit because we lack tails to show our moods.
I'm working on a few different pieces of music, and still working on the idea for an Opera, "Fate of the Damned", about the Egyptian Book of the Dead. I'm also starting to get a bit interested in working on the Beltane Mass, and maybe some work on the Samhain Mass too. One of the pieces I'm revamping is going to include a string of text in Morse code, along with a lot of other textural elements. Textural is kind of easy to do at lower tempi, but faster stuff takes a lot more attention to detail.
Other than that, not much is changing. I'm still single and hating it, but with no hope of any resolution for that condition. Other than that, not much else going on.
It's that time again, doctor visits. Monday will start early, because my appointment is for 7:30am, and since it's an annual visit it'll take all morning. On the plus side, we'll be in the neck of the woods near the social security office, and I need to file my name change with them, so my roommate, who doesn't do sit and wait well at all, will pop in there to get the right form and maybe while waiting for the different phases of the visit we can get it filled out. Maybe we can even file it on the way back home. It'll be something off the list of things needed to get done -- the DMV is so backed up it'll be months before I can get an updated state ID, and by then I hope my passport is here, which will mean I don't have to get a state ID anyway.
The solar array seems to be doing a great job for me. What people in other parts of the world call a heat advisory we refer to as August, so my friends' electrical bills are crazy high. Mine, on the other hand, is not, and I didn't get a bill for June because my solar cells covered not only the wattage charges but also the fees. My new solar plan is giving me more payback (the company seems dedicated to this, because all of their plans have solar buyback), so I might get way ahead on the power bills. It's also nice to know that when everyone else is under power shortfalls I'm ahead of the game.
In case anyone was wondering, Dixie remains a dog. She doesn't mind that at all, and I think she looks down her long nose at us a bit because we lack tails to show our moods.
I'm working on a few different pieces of music, and still working on the idea for an Opera, "Fate of the Damned", about the Egyptian Book of the Dead. I'm also starting to get a bit interested in working on the Beltane Mass, and maybe some work on the Samhain Mass too. One of the pieces I'm revamping is going to include a string of text in Morse code, along with a lot of other textural elements. Textural is kind of easy to do at lower tempi, but faster stuff takes a lot more attention to detail.
Other than that, not much is changing. I'm still single and hating it, but with no hope of any resolution for that condition. Other than that, not much else going on.
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Date: 2024-08-19 03:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-08-19 03:46 am (UTC)Correction -- Tuesday. I was hoping to do some other business after the clinic visit, but not in 100+ weather in a vehicle with nonfunctional air conditioning.
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Date: 2024-08-19 03:54 am (UTC)