But it was worth it.
One of the selling points when we bought our house was the built-in drawers and shelves in the living room. Some of them contain our DVD collection and the weight, over time, has bent them enough that they scrape along each other when we open them, or not at all. One drawer refused point blank to open — more frustrating as I wanted to get out the DVD of my brother in The Drowsy Chaperone.
We called in a handyman whose done work on that sort of thing before. He fixed the drawers but it took waaaaay longer than I (or he) expected. And required removing all the DVDs from all the drawers, then replacing them. As I budget a certain amount of task time into my planning, that doesn’t wreck my schedule — if everything goes smoothly, I’ll make it up later in the month.
I also wound up doing two stories for The Local Reporter, one about a local road-construction project that’s running over deadline (this is not surprising. I don’t think I’ve ever covered a road project that didn’t hit unexpected delays), then one about the Chapel Hill library’s push back against censorship efforts. They don’t have much to deal with but they still want to take a stand for those who do. This wound up sucking up more time than expected, though again I should make it up later in the month. And I’m taking next week off so that way I’ll still have a story in.
I read another chunk of Let No Man Put Asunder to the writing group and got thumbs up, with some criticisms (helpful ones). I think I’ve got the next section of the book figured out too, but I didn’t get to it. I started editing Southern Discomfort for publication next year (via Behold the Book) and got some work done on the next section of Savage Adventures. And over at Atomic Junk Shop I posted about some mythos development with the Fantastic Four and the Legion of Super-Heroes.
Plus our drawers work now.
And Wisp is still doing fine as an inside cat. As you can see, she’s comfortable napping in my lap.
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