by Ira | Aug 23, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
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...
by Ira | Aug 22, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
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...
by Ira | Aug 21, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
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...
by Ira | Aug 20, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
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....
by Ira | Aug 19, 2018 | Challenge, Journal
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...
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)...
