Black Dog Blog

OK, let's see if I remember all of this!

I'm not cold any more. I'm too hot, but so is the weather, so I think that's cured. Actually, the tremor and everything has been behaving more or less; only one noticeable bad case of shakes and one of bad speech in the last week or so.

My unbrother's coming home from Ireland. When he does, I'm making him and my brother-by-blood-relation book a long weekend off and taking them to the zoo and a theme park. Of course, one of THEM will have to drive, but I'll be the organiser and possibly stump up a lot of the cash, so I get to call it my treat.

Guess which zoo? What if I tell you Chester Zoo has red pandas? Yeah. :D

Today on the tram I worked out a detail for Sankmarray (my current solo writing thing) that had been bothering me. It was a good figuring-out, in that my solution is weird and makes perfect sense to me and follows my unofficial inverted Occam's Razor variant: "when stuff's confusing you, throw in another alien and all will become clear".

Also, the little vignette I realised I would have to stick in between Sankmarray episodes 1 and 2 to make things make sense has sort of, um, become episode 2, bumping episode 2 back to episode 3. Which is… fine, actually. I don't want to get carried away with enthusiasm on this, but I'm finding I've got quite a lot to play with on this platform, and even starting to wonder if this will take me to book length. It'll be fun finding out. At some point I may bite the bullet and accept that I'm gonna be typecast as a wacky author… muh.

I passed 7.5mill on Neopets by sellsellselling DROO at 60.

Yesterday a kitten stretched out extremely lengthily on my bed (not shown; that's Slen's room in the pic), doing his damnedest to be as tall as me while helping me to read Matter, which I've almost finished. It's good, it's good, it's Iain M Banks's Culture and it's a long book.

My weight's on a downswing, which was occasioned by my studiously forgetting to eat for 55 hours and I paid the price for that by feeling extremely ill on the third morning but still, might as well enjoy the rewards of my stupidity.

I thought there was something else, actually… oh well. Update if I remember.