by Ira | Dec 17, 2014 | Challenge, Journal
Hey there iPad, old friend. I didn’t get to use you today, did I? The writing did not happen, but that was planned as of this morning. My writing hour was cleaved into bits with some apartment building responsibilities. We had the exterminator here for a problem...
by Ira | Dec 16, 2014 | Challenge, Journal
Tonight’s, alas, has to be a quickie. I hardly got any work done again today. Ugh. This home stretch, this sprint to the finish has definitely not been what I had hoped. But! I have two more days. Come what may. One more apartment thing to deal with tomorrow...
by Ira | Dec 15, 2014 | Challenge, Journal
Thirteen has always kind of been a lucky number for me. Weird, I know, given that it’s considered so unlucky by so many cultures. But, see, I was born on the 13th. One of my best birthdays ever was on Friday the 13th. It was a surprise party when I...
by Ira | Dec 14, 2014 | Challenge, Journal
These days that get away from me are definitely magnified by the no-room-for-error-ness of the rest of my available work time. I got about a half days’ worth of work done, and it should have been more than that. Not, perhaps, a full work day given some of the...
by Ira | Dec 13, 2014 | Challenge, Journal
I have a beautiful new dog. Her name is Coco, and she went to the groomers today for the first time…and she’s so pretty the Ho and I almost cried when we saw her. She’s, like, a full-on fancy beautiful Shih Tzu with the cutest round face and big eyes...
by Ira | Dec 12, 2014 | Challenge, Journal
I turned my bedside light off before opening up the wordpress app to write this entry. I have no idea why I did that, but here we are. This “new” keyboard has a nifty feature that backlights the keys, so you can see them in the dark. Pretty cool. Also,...