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Monday, December 30th
Dec. 30th, 2013 10:11 amThe Daily Report
It took me so many tries to write that subject line without "January". My brain insists it's January, since it's after Christmas, I guess. I made the right call in taking last week off. I think if I'd known exactly how it was going to go, I wouldn't have done the server migration/upgrade, either. Christmas with my family was great, but also emotionally intense and bittersweet. It's better to draw a clear line between family stuff and business than mess up both of them.
And now, it's back to business.
The first day after a break always leaves me a little scattered. I didn't go a whole week without writing, luckily... the revised rules for electronic devices on aircraft makes it a lot more convenient for me to write in transit, since I can have my phone out as soon as my seating area is wiped down* and I'm buckled in and keep it out until I need to exit the aircraft.
(*Here's your semi-annual reminder that most "travel flu" comes from contact with surfaces that eleventy zillion other people have come into contact with, not breathing the so-called recycled air in airplanes, which is actually 1) heavily filtered and 2) freshened with outside air. Wipe down every part of the seat you have to touch in both the plane and airport with disinfecting wipes, and then sanitize your hands. How often do you think the airlines do this?)
The State of the Me
My sleep cycle was up and down all over the last week, and then I had the rigor of travel. I've had a full day and two full nights to recover, though, and I'm doing okay.
Plans For Today
Today's day 2 of the MU writing cycle, which is to start writing/find a beginning. Next chapter, I think I'm going to start making "under construction" posts for my Patreon feed so that my supporters can track my progress and see whereabouts I am. I'm not 100% sure how best to handle this, so the first attempt may be a bit experimental... but isn't everything?
Because of the aforementioned scatteredness, today is mostly going to be a random writing day. I have a newsletter already written (mostly written in transit), but I'm not going to send it out until tomorrow... I had some new subscribers over the holidays who only got added to the list last night, and I need to give them a chance to verify their address.
It took me so many tries to write that subject line without "January". My brain insists it's January, since it's after Christmas, I guess. I made the right call in taking last week off. I think if I'd known exactly how it was going to go, I wouldn't have done the server migration/upgrade, either. Christmas with my family was great, but also emotionally intense and bittersweet. It's better to draw a clear line between family stuff and business than mess up both of them.
And now, it's back to business.
The first day after a break always leaves me a little scattered. I didn't go a whole week without writing, luckily... the revised rules for electronic devices on aircraft makes it a lot more convenient for me to write in transit, since I can have my phone out as soon as my seating area is wiped down* and I'm buckled in and keep it out until I need to exit the aircraft.
(*Here's your semi-annual reminder that most "travel flu" comes from contact with surfaces that eleventy zillion other people have come into contact with, not breathing the so-called recycled air in airplanes, which is actually 1) heavily filtered and 2) freshened with outside air. Wipe down every part of the seat you have to touch in both the plane and airport with disinfecting wipes, and then sanitize your hands. How often do you think the airlines do this?)
The State of the Me
My sleep cycle was up and down all over the last week, and then I had the rigor of travel. I've had a full day and two full nights to recover, though, and I'm doing okay.
Plans For Today
Today's day 2 of the MU writing cycle, which is to start writing/find a beginning. Next chapter, I think I'm going to start making "under construction" posts for my Patreon feed so that my supporters can track my progress and see whereabouts I am. I'm not 100% sure how best to handle this, so the first attempt may be a bit experimental... but isn't everything?
Because of the aforementioned scatteredness, today is mostly going to be a random writing day. I have a newsletter already written (mostly written in transit), but I'm not going to send it out until tomorrow... I had some new subscribers over the holidays who only got added to the list last night, and I need to give them a chance to verify their address.