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Good news: I am now halfway through Day 4 of feeling awesome physically and mentally. It wasn't until Thursday that I really ironed out the best schedule for my supplements, but for three days in a row after that I felt pretty good from the start of the day until the end of it. A lot of minor physical complaints that I didn't really notice until their absence (poor circulation in my legs being a standout one) have been clearing up.

Bad news: While my mental clarity and focus are both great, I'm badly "out of shape" when it comes to the act of writing. I'm writing well, but the faucet effect I'm used to (open it up and the words just flow) isn't there yet. It's more dribs and drabs. The TOMU chapter I've been working on is approaching 3,000 words and an actual ending and will certainly be up this afternoon... after that, I think I need to do some microfiction or other drills like I used to do. The secret to writing is writing, and the best way to keep writing is to keep writing.

Worse news: My desktop computer died on me. Thing just won't turn on... it may be the power supply, but possibly the motherboard. The fan turns on about about half the time but the hard disk isn't spinning. Don't worry, the impact of this should be minimal. I've learned from previous computer failures. I bought a decently sized USB flash drive about a month ago and moved pivotal files off of it. I will need to replace it by and by so I have a backup and because some tasks are just better done on it, but my netbook is what I do all my writing from. My long-term purchase plans also include buying an external hard drive. These things will be important, but they are not immediately crucial.

A small health note to myself: I need to stop minimizing my peanut allergy. I had the first reaction that came from just being near peanut butter without actually physically contacting it the other day. If I'm serious about my health, I can't mess around with that stuff.

There's no denying that the weather has turned here. It's supposed to be in the low thirties tonight. It's about sixty degrees out now. This morning, I was just telling someone very dear to me who hails from a slightly warmer climate that I was glad I wouldn't have to run the AC at all today. He said it sounded too cold for him and I laughed... now I'm wrapped up in blankets and using my lappy's charger to keep warm.

And finally, more music that makes me feel good. This is a recent discovery, courtesy of my technical, spiritual, and menu adviser, popelizbet:

A quick sidenote.

FYI, I have some very awesome people in my life who are helping me to learn the importance of cutting people out whose presence isn't doing me any good and how to actually do it.

This, as much as diet and exercise and giving my body what it needs to overcome its own deficiencies, is part of my attempt to take create a healthy life for me.

There are a few people who come here seemingly just to irritate the shit out of me, and they do it the same way over and over again. I've never done anything about it because... well... I don't know that they're trolls, and in fact, I'm pretty sure they're not. But... they irritate the shit out of me. They know they're doing it because they keep getting the same reaction, and they keep doing the same stuff. When it happens, one of two things happen: I stop looking at my blog so I don't have to deal with them, or I completely derail what I'm trying to do in a day.

Actually, both of those things usually happen.

It really doesn't matter if somebody's a "troll" or not. There's just no good, no sane, no healthy reason for me to put up with this sort of thing. This is my space. This is where I come to unload my thoughts. It does serve an important function of letting people know what's going on with my life... when I have the spoons available to do so. Getting stuck in the same aggravating patterns with the same people isn't conducive to that.

So, I'm going to be making more frequent use of the ban_set command for this blog. The people who find themselves unable to comment... take it as personally as you like, I really don't care. It's not a ban from anything else I do unless you make it into one by taking your gripes there. I'm sure this will do wonders for my reputation as somebody who can't stand criticism and censors critics, but it's got exactly fuck and all to do with criticism and everything to do with interpersonal interaction. I'm not required to be anybody's "buddy" online.

Comments are disabled on this post because this isn't going to be a topic for discussion. Please don't bother using alternate venues to contact me to express support or agreement. I don't want it, I don't need it. I don't like having to deal with this stuff and I don't want to think about it a second longer.