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Apr. 19th, 2023 08:47 pm1. Flirted with Alaska trips today. G Adventures actually has Alaska and National Parks trips. The National Parks excursions are tempting (they are Death Valley, Palm Springs/Joshua Tree, Monument Valley, Canyonlands, Vegas, Yosemite, San Fransico.
Also checked out Cruises. G Adventures trips to Alaska (which are by ground not cruise ship) are actually cheaper than the Anchorage to Vacouver cruises.
Maybe when I retire, I'll move to Seattle and spend my retirement traveling about by boat?
(I'm not serious about this - well not really).
2. The difficulty with self-help/pop psychology books - is well, the generalizing. I'm almost done listening to the Mel Robbins Take Control of Your Life - How to Face the Fear and Take Control of Your Life audiobook. By the way - self-help books are easier to listen to than to read. I've no clue why.
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Anyhow the book is motivating me to do something about my living room. I took care of the bedroom finally. Clothes are no longer piled up at the foot of the bed on the storage trunks. They are now inside storage containers (cloth baskets with lids). Now, I just have to find a way to get a storage unit and shelves for the living room - so I can get rid of some of the clutter. Get more space for my painting, and maybe buy a loveseat so I can have folks over? Then we can commiserate about the wave in my television together. Also, put pictures on the walls - I'm thinking of putting up some of my photos. (I have thousands on my phone...it's just a matter of figuring out which ones.)
3. I've gotten into the habit of drawing people I see each day on the subway and then watercoloring them. It's unconventional - since technically, most watercolorists don't draw it first or they lightly sketch it and then paint it. Although I know a few who do. I'm an unconventional artist - with an impressionistic style - I don't tend to draw things exact. I can, I just am not really that interested in doing so.
4. I've made progress on my novel revisions. I managed to chop the book down from 860 pages to 755. Go me. What was original page 222 is now 165. So basically took the word count down from 365450 words to 279,650 words.
Or thereabouts.
As you can see - verbosity has never been my issue, brevity on the other hand is. Much to the annoyance of many a boss, manager, editor, parent, and professor.
My father was always telling me to tighten it. I explained the novel to my mother..
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5. Soap Twitter had a kerfuffle - which I only got glimpses of - because I've only followed about five to six people on the app who are in soap twitter. (Being Twitter - I get to see all the people those six like or follow...in my feed at various points.)
Near as I can figure from the sidelines of this thing - some idiot decided to pretend to be someone else. Basically they set up a fake twitter account and used it to harass people and divide fans. They have an actual account, but they posed as someone else under the fake account to torment soap fans.
I think some people have too much time on their hands, and need to find better hobbies. Or at the very least more constructive ones.
( Read more... )
6. Did some research on Sentinel Island - turns out people were visiting it in the 1800s, the British checked it out, as did India. They even tried to take people off of it - only to have them die, so they put them back on the island.
There's nothing of any value on it. Except the inhabitants, who have chosen to self-isolate from the rest of humanity. And they did it rather peacefully until around 1997. Oh they would have ship wrecks from time to time, but the people got rescued without too much incident.
However since 1997, no one has gone on the island. And the inhabitants will let them monitor from distance - but too close and the arrows fly. If you come on the island - you are dead. To date three people have been killed, who came onto the island.
7. Work has ground to a halt. I've done everything I can do, outside of traveling into Manhattan and sitting in management's offices and screaming in their ear. (I work in Queens.)
So, to preserve my sanity, I've opted to revise my novel when I have nothing else to do or can't locate anything to do or make work for myself.
No one can tell that I'm doing it. So it's actually the perfect project. Others have done much the same thing over the years.
8. Renfeld Bombed at the Box Office. Good News? I can see it on streaming faster than expected. Bad News? Not in theaters. Not that I was planning on seeing it in the theater anyhow.
Here's a review - a very spoilery review
From a quick scan? It bombed due to too much plot.
Although why anyone in their right mind would waste money on Super Mario Brothers is beyond me. But I also don't get why people went to Avatar 2.
9. Still trying to figure out what bookshelves and storage cubes to get. Too many choices. Also I keep losing the one I liked and looked possible.
There are days that I wish I could get my handyman brother on loan.
Also checked out Cruises. G Adventures trips to Alaska (which are by ground not cruise ship) are actually cheaper than the Anchorage to Vacouver cruises.
Maybe when I retire, I'll move to Seattle and spend my retirement traveling about by boat?
(I'm not serious about this - well not really).
2. The difficulty with self-help/pop psychology books - is well, the generalizing. I'm almost done listening to the Mel Robbins Take Control of Your Life - How to Face the Fear and Take Control of Your Life audiobook. By the way - self-help books are easier to listen to than to read. I've no clue why.
( Read more... )
Anyhow the book is motivating me to do something about my living room. I took care of the bedroom finally. Clothes are no longer piled up at the foot of the bed on the storage trunks. They are now inside storage containers (cloth baskets with lids). Now, I just have to find a way to get a storage unit and shelves for the living room - so I can get rid of some of the clutter. Get more space for my painting, and maybe buy a loveseat so I can have folks over? Then we can commiserate about the wave in my television together. Also, put pictures on the walls - I'm thinking of putting up some of my photos. (I have thousands on my phone...it's just a matter of figuring out which ones.)
3. I've gotten into the habit of drawing people I see each day on the subway and then watercoloring them. It's unconventional - since technically, most watercolorists don't draw it first or they lightly sketch it and then paint it. Although I know a few who do. I'm an unconventional artist - with an impressionistic style - I don't tend to draw things exact. I can, I just am not really that interested in doing so.
4. I've made progress on my novel revisions. I managed to chop the book down from 860 pages to 755. Go me. What was original page 222 is now 165. So basically took the word count down from 365450 words to 279,650 words.
Or thereabouts.
As you can see - verbosity has never been my issue, brevity on the other hand is. Much to the annoyance of many a boss, manager, editor, parent, and professor.
My father was always telling me to tighten it. I explained the novel to my mother..
( Read more... )
5. Soap Twitter had a kerfuffle - which I only got glimpses of - because I've only followed about five to six people on the app who are in soap twitter. (Being Twitter - I get to see all the people those six like or follow...in my feed at various points.)
Near as I can figure from the sidelines of this thing - some idiot decided to pretend to be someone else. Basically they set up a fake twitter account and used it to harass people and divide fans. They have an actual account, but they posed as someone else under the fake account to torment soap fans.
I think some people have too much time on their hands, and need to find better hobbies. Or at the very least more constructive ones.
( Read more... )
6. Did some research on Sentinel Island - turns out people were visiting it in the 1800s, the British checked it out, as did India. They even tried to take people off of it - only to have them die, so they put them back on the island.
There's nothing of any value on it. Except the inhabitants, who have chosen to self-isolate from the rest of humanity. And they did it rather peacefully until around 1997. Oh they would have ship wrecks from time to time, but the people got rescued without too much incident.
However since 1997, no one has gone on the island. And the inhabitants will let them monitor from distance - but too close and the arrows fly. If you come on the island - you are dead. To date three people have been killed, who came onto the island.
7. Work has ground to a halt. I've done everything I can do, outside of traveling into Manhattan and sitting in management's offices and screaming in their ear. (I work in Queens.)
So, to preserve my sanity, I've opted to revise my novel when I have nothing else to do or can't locate anything to do or make work for myself.
No one can tell that I'm doing it. So it's actually the perfect project. Others have done much the same thing over the years.
8. Renfeld Bombed at the Box Office. Good News? I can see it on streaming faster than expected. Bad News? Not in theaters. Not that I was planning on seeing it in the theater anyhow.
Here's a review - a very spoilery review
From a quick scan? It bombed due to too much plot.
Although why anyone in their right mind would waste money on Super Mario Brothers is beyond me. But I also don't get why people went to Avatar 2.
9. Still trying to figure out what bookshelves and storage cubes to get. Too many choices. Also I keep losing the one I liked and looked possible.
There are days that I wish I could get my handyman brother on loan.