by Ira | Aug 18, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
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)...
by Ira | Aug 17, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
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....
by Ira | Aug 16, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
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,...
by Ira | Aug 15, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
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,...
by Ira | Aug 14, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
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...
by Ira | Aug 13, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
I’m back, bitches. BACK, I SAY! I wrote 4,000 words today. Like a boss is wont to do. They were pretty good words, too. I’m figuring out this troublesome section, having characters actually taking actions and asking questions that make sense. It’s a...