Usually, for obvious reasons, I try not to schedule lots of contractors and errands for the same week, unless I’m taking a day off to deal with all of them. This week, though? Monday, Trixie’s health checkup. Tuesday, a contractor checking our basement dehumidifier still runs smoothly. Except after waiting for them (and trying not to be embroiled anything when they showed) they had to postpone to Wednesday.
Wednesday? The first contractor, plus a foundations checkup. Thursday? Trixie in for some scheduled tests.
That’s a lot of extra time and distraction. Plus somehow we had the housecleaners assigned to come Thursday and neither of us put it on the calendar. That meant three hours sitting in the spare bedroom comforting the cats. It’s surprisingly numbing. And because the cleaners were three hours late, that threw my schedule further off (I postponed stuff because I didn’t want to be in the middle of it when they arrived). I made a run to Dudley’s eye doctor to pick up some of his various drugs today; I could have done that yesterday if I’d known I’d have the time. And Trixie had to wait twonextra hours at the vet before we could reach her.
Plus the effect of a couple of nights of really bad sleep.
On the plus side, the house inspection stuff went great: no massively expensive repairs required. Trixie’s Monday recheck found she needs added daily exercises but no major problems. Thursday, we won’t know for a while. And if nothing else, having the cleaners in on a day when I was already off my game may mean more productivity later this month
The end result? I got some good work done on Jekyll and Hyde though nowhere near what I wanted to. I also sold two copies of Sex for Dinner, Death for Breakfast — whoever bought them, thank you!
I also turned in two stories for The Local Reporter, one on the biannual Carrboro record show, and one on Mental Health First Aid. At Atomic Junk Shop I blogged about Jack Kirby’s Forever People and about the story rebooting Flash’s wife Iris into a Time Traveler. How the CW missed that when it’s Flash show had so much time travel, I’ll never know.
And here’s a link to a Con-tinual panel I participated in on magic in comics and another on best and worst team leaders.
Next week should be a lot easier. Fingers crossed.
