by Ira | Nov 12, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
Gonna make it a quick one tonight! Have to — need to get up ever so slightly early tomorrow to make sure I get my writing in before work kicks off. Gonna be a busy day, at least to start. I will be one session short of perfect this week. I burned out tonight....
by Ira | Nov 11, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
Making it a quick one tonight because it’s already 10 and I want to read for a bit, but…I have my rough outline. Whew! It rocks, too. I can feel it, feel the momentum of it, just going through the rough beats. Stuff I can’t wait to write. Stuff that I know will make...
by Ira | Nov 10, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
My goodness. I think I forgot a good two weeks ago or so that this is twelve years of “blogging” every day. It’s not really blogging is it? Not in the strict sense. Blogging is usually more…organized. Purposed. More like articles, I feel like, albeit informal ones....
by Ira | Nov 9, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
It was a burnout day today. But I mean that in a good way. Like, I handled the burnout. MASSIVE nap. Almost two hours, I think, which might interfere a bit with going to bed tonight, but I don’t know. I did it decently early. I needed it. Majorly. Read some. Watched a...
by Ira | Nov 8, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
Tonight’s fine distinction IS… “Flail” versus “Mace” versus “Morning Star.” Weapons! Let’s get into it. A flail has a chain with something to swing at the end of it. Most famously, we think of a spiked ball. APPARENTLY, however, in real history, it was usually just...
by Ira | Nov 6, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
Boy howdy I am tired. A familiar refrain, I know. It wasn’t a zero day today, but it was close. Went to bed so late last night getting up early to write wasn’t on the table, and then work was busy enough that it cut into the evening time, though to be honest I don’t...
