Okay, so we came up to Portland for, like, the first decent weather in FOREVER according to our siblings. So, that's nice 🙂 It was foggy and misty this morning, which I totally miss from growing up in NorCal, and then for the whole second half of the day, it was...

Sigh. I did not get my words written today. Dammit. Or is it damnit? How do you spell it? It was a very hectic day. A travel day. We're up in Portland, and I really wanted to write in the morning, but there just wasn't enough time. I thought I was going to have the...

Man, today was one of those days where everything kinda just went off the rails. Sigh. It wasn't a mental day off. It wasn't laziness. There was just a lot of un-planned urgent stuff that had to be taken care of today, and I spent most of it driving around Los Angeles...

Doing this one quick tonight because it's bed time...but I took a mental day off today. I was tired. Worn down. A little burned out, and the weekend just hadn't been enough to recharge me. So, I did. The wonders of working for one's self. I'm back to work tomorrow, so...

So, I've written fifteen thousand words this week. And that's forty-five thousand words over three weeks...which is rather incredible to me. Just a few months ago, I would have set a goal like that and utterly failed. I'd have beaten myself up over the failure, more...

My baseball team, the Oakland A's, are in first place today. This is exciting, because nobody saw this coming at the beginning of the season, not even me. We've languished for a number of years after trading away our best (and impendingly expensive) players after...

Man, my morning routine is SO important to my productivity. I'm not sure exactly when that happened, but it's true. If I let myself get distracted and go off the rails in the morning, I have a really, reeeaalllyyy hard time getting myself back on track. That happened...

The Queen died today. Aretha Franklin. I first heard Aretha young enough that I don't even remember. It's funny to say, but I don't look back on my days as a child and recall all that much music being played in our household, at least popular music, anyway. And yet,...

Coco's been doing this thing lately where she doesn't eat her nighttime Whimzee right away. She waits. I'm not sure what she's waiting for, but I give it to her, and she just kind of watches me until I come to bed, and she keeps it close by, but she doesn't start...

I'm going to start with A's talk tonight instead of writing talk 😛 Just to mix things up. We won today! That's actually not the fun part in and of itself. We've been winning a lot lately. But, tonight was fun because we've now taken the first two games of a...