LnB's Audio Diary

(From last week, sorry.) Snow, rain, very high winds; I'm a worrier; Stardrifter newsletter; letters to and from Leslie; processing, handling, and reading fees; that makes you a customer; pay-to-play; it's all subjective; I don't like this trend; assuming it's not a scam; absolutely the wrong approach; it's not a contest, it's a business; dead ends; that's not what I'm talking about; out-lived its lifespan; at least you have the memory; nobody cares; and more, in this update!

Shopping; Little Bronx's Social Security Disability issue has been resolved (we think); made turkey soup with the very last of the Thanksgiving turkey before it went bad; made a cake with half flour, half potatoes; Black Gold; perhaps I could I make a cake with cooked potatoes and instant potato flakes; called a lawyer; long rant about my loud neighbor, and my own sense of stress and self-esteem; little clubhouse; transferring; drunk revelers; no confrontation; I'm a coward; and more, in this update!

Clear morning; "Voice From The Void 12: Corporatespace" is now available; didn't want to repeat myself; working on the next episode; busy weekend; Little Bronx's Social Security problems aren't done, despite what we thought before; I did real shopping; crazy whole potato; "Tottenberg"; red light; review of the animated Holiday special "Beebo Saves Christmas"; more talk about "The Wheel of Time" TV show; and more, in this update!

(From the other day.) COVID booster shots; conflicting information; recorded "Voice From The Void"; always tough to tell; made another cake; you can't tell a potato is there; different consistency; banana; yeast for leavening; cake made of potato, not a potato cake; we like it, it's easy, and I make it better; achieving repeatable results; onion and garlic; long sidetrack on pork cakes; mixed it, mixed it, mixed it; right where I was expecting; acidic brightness; and more, in this update!

(From yesterday.) New doctor in the new clinic; you never know what you're getting; confused by my own actions; side-effect of audio work; it threw me off; they're not like that; flighty morning; another dentist appointment; finished the script for the next "Voice From The Void" episode; slow inroads; Thanksgiving was nice; forgot the bread; can't get a human; busy, crazy week; brief review of the new "Hawkeye" TV series; solid block of Stardrifter; and more, in this update!

(From the other day.) Turkey for a change; plumbing job went well; tire losing air faster and faster; we could start seeing snow; doing better than yesterday; "All He Surveys"; scrap what I've got; I don't play well with others, as it turns out; romance has drawn them; Hemingway, Mamet, or whatever; I remember this one guy; out-of-context or fictionalized; silly anecdote; art versus everything else; that's part of my job; tough transition; you can't have it both ways; tons of ways to ruin your life; monkeys in the room; some don't, most do; up in the air for years now; selfish little boy; maybe I should take a breath; only happy when they're complaining; if you have to fight, then you have two problems; a little petulant; one more on the list; quick re-mention of the TV series, "Hanna"; watching a play-through of the video game, "Cyberpunk 2077"; and more, in this update!

(From the other day.) Running around town; new facility; dry run that wasn't; windy, cold, and raining; wiper woes; plumbing woes; master of the permanent temporary fix; worse than useless; griping and moaning; the old one wasn't broken after all; I would have felt like an idiot either way; picked up the plumbing part; maybe I won't screw that up; "All He Surveys"; I need to rewrite the end of the book; maybe this draft, maybe the next; other elements in play; ignore what I've written; wrong pump; and more, in this update!

Dump run; nice day; morose sky; strangely agitated; productive day; "Voice From The Void"; hammering it; wrote some long letters; I felt like I owed them; the only way to approach it; small tasks are off my mind; existential dread again; time is running out; we only get so many of them; everything about this is personal; other types of feelings that don't do me any favors; the day is mostly shot; way, way behind; a life's work; more infirm; air conditioners; being desperate is the price; empty trailer; quickie review of the first episode of "The Wheel of Time"; and more, in this update!

Really windy; controlled burns; so hard to get out the door; it's a long list; a young parent's harriedness; he got on my last nerve, man; I didn't want any ice cream; forty miles of anime; even ten minutes; rough day for no reason; testing out the VTT Owlbear.rodeo; I don't have the bandwidth, I don't have the power; Astral VTT is dead; you only need them for combat; related but not the same; and more, in this update!

Dump run; warm, windy day; lovely to see; "All He Surveys"; Chapter 38 needs work; logical and narrative leaps; expanding the chapter; moving it around; catching the big problems; catching the small problems; rearranged and resettled; one more pass on these latest chapters; markup not markdown; plain text is forever; may use LibreOffice this time; manual EPUB construction; some people are that good; read it in many formats and applications; my eyes just gloss over; and more, in this update!