You know those days when you roll out of bed, determined to get a lot of things done and checked off your to-do list and you get them all completed and you feel great? Yeah, today wasn’t one of those days for me.
Oh, I intended to get a lot done. Several items on my to-do list that needed checking off. But it didn’t happen.
Usually the dogs get me up anywhere between 4:30 to 6:00 A.M. This morning I didn’t wake up until almost 6:45 A.M. I must have been dead to the world last night, as the wife tells me she got up around 2:00 A.M. I (almost) always hear her when she gets up in the middle of the night but I heard nothing.
After making breakfast for the wife, then walking the dogs, I got caught up on some email, got a shower, the started working on trying to find the cover my wife wants to use for her book. I know I have the file somewhere but I haven’t been able to find it on my new computer, on my external drive I use for backups, or my old laptop.
We went out to lunch with friends and had a nice long chat about everything. I knew this was planned for today so I knew it was going to take a chunk out of the day’s productivity. Nothing wrong with that, life is too short to do nothing but be productive.
Upon getting home the wife found a copy of the cover for her book and sent it to me. I in turn passed it along to a graphic artist to have it turned into a full wrap-around cover for a print book.
I then turned to trying to get my newsletter sign-up form working on my new Email Service Provider. Got a large chunk of it worked out, but was getting tired from the food coma that was lunch. I decided to throw in the towel and go take a nap.
Woke up from the nap at nearly 5:00 P.M. Egads! Most of the day was gone. Fed the dogs and got dinner started.
After eating, we finished watching A Little White Lie (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4225012/) that we started he other day. An enjoyable little film about a writer (Michael Shannon) who wrote a single, fantastic novel (“Goat Time”) and then disappeared for twenty years (shades of J.D.Salinger). A professor (Kate Hudson) at a small college is trying to save the annual literary festival and manages to contact a guy who she thinks is the mysteriously vanished super author, and invites him to the festival. The poor schmuck accepts and goes to the festival. But we’re never really sure, nor are the characters, that Shriver, the writer, is really the right guy or not. If you like movies about writers and the creative process, well acted, and with some literary humor, you might like this one.
As my final bit of productivity I finished getting my sign-up form set up and working on the new ESP. I’m testing it and once it is fully vetted I’ll get it on the site.
In the end, I didn’t get very much checked off my to-do list, and it was a lazy sort of day, and that’s OK. You need lazy days now and then to help recharge the old creative batteries.
I hope your day was a good one, my Hordeling. Tomorrow is another possibility to get shtuff done.
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