Chili is my favourite thing to eat and cook, and I love to experiment with it – there’s so many versions a person can make.
Today it’s ground beef and chorizo, with the usual spices, some cayenne and jalapeno for heat, and, oh yeah.
Bacon.
How’s that for breakfast food?
Target: 1600 words
Written: 1761 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: Dead As A Doornail, Charlaine Harris (very disjointed, this series)
Comics: WildCats 3.0 4-7
Music: Forgiveness Rock Record, Broken Social SceneFather Lightning swelled from forty nine thousand to almost sixty-three, in just one draft. That’s a big jump. I don’t think either of my previous efforts had that kind of jump.
Kudos to me, for either overwriting or strongly expanding the narrative.
With a potential lot of fluff, and some good new ideas I had while editing, the third round seems like there’s maybe some potential.
Fuck, I hope this is good.
Target: 1600 words
Written: 2901 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: Dead As A Doornail, Charlaine Harris
Comics: WildCats v2 28, WildCats 3.0 1-3
Music: FOREVER, Cracker (FOREVER)Nyka, Loki, Magnus, Cassie, Isis.
Man, we’ve lost so much.
So much.
I don’t know why today, but man, I’m gutted.
Target: 1600 words
Written: 1826 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: Dead As A Doornail, Charlaine Harris
Comics: WildCats v2 24-27
Music: Forbidden Place, Meat PuppetsIt’s okay to have a drink.
I know it’s en vogue to make out anyone who has an alcoholic beverage to be an irredeemable drunk. So many shows and books and things turn even the most casual of drinkers into real problems, but gimme a fuckin’ break.
For some people, they have to go cold turkey.
But for many, many others, it’s totally reasonable to have a drink without being labelled an alcoholic.
I’m so sick of the condemnation and outrage; the denial of possibility and nuance.
The non-existence of middle ground.
There was a time when we knew that not everything was black and white, that there was room for complexity. For moderation.
There is kindness beyond the outrage.
Try and remember that.
Target: 1600 words
Written: 954 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: Gregor And The Marks Of Secret, Suzanne Collins (you know, this is one of the best written YA series ever - the depth of the subject matter, dark, man, for kid's stuff. Great work.)
Comics: WildCats v2 20-23
Music: For Tomorrow, BlurI got an offer to train in something new at work.
Thank heaven. I was starting to get bored there.
Phew.
Target: 1600 words
Written: 2180 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: Gregor And The Marks Of Secret, Suzanne Collins
Comics: WildCats v2 16-19
Music: For Those About To Rock, AC/DCIt’s been a day.
We’re gonna sleep.
Because I sure as hell didn’t last night.
Target: 1600 words
Written: 1751 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: Gregor And The Marks Of Secret, Suzanne Collins
Comics: WildCats v2 14-15, WildCats: Ladytron 1, WildCats Annual 2000 1
Music: For My Friends, Blind MelonShe may be gone, but the old bag’s not forgotten.
Or maybe she is. I keep conflating her with Queen Elizabeth, and forgetting she’s also dead.
God, we have a Charles now?
Whatever happened to ending the monarchy?
Target: 1600 words
Written: 1179 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: Side Hustle: From Idea To Income In 27 Days, Chris Guillebeau
Comics: WildCats 10-13
Music: For Blood And Empire, Anti-FlagMan, I love that kid. It’s a shame we have to leave today; at least we had fun.
Ice cream and new basketball nets and arts and crafts and Zootopia 2, plus the elevator game, where I lift her up, say what floor we’re on and then whatever absurdity happens to be on that floor (a floor full of Nanas, a floor of giraffes eating corn on the cob, a floor full of zombies, she loves that one, and the floor full of old people waiting to die).
We have weird tastes.
(I’ll tell you about my nieces and Russian Bear sometime).
Target: 1600 words
Written: 1905 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: Side Hustle: From Idea To Income In 27 Days, Chris Guillebeau
Comics: WildC.A.T.S.: Mosaic 1, WildCats v2 7-9
Music: For All The Cows, Foo Fighters (I'm on a kick)We get our granddaughter to ourselves tonight, following gymnastics and the building of a basketball net.
A rager awaits.
Target: 1600 words
Written: 1117 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: Side Hustle: From Idea To Income In 27 Days, Chris Guillebeau
Comics: WildCats v2 4-6, Divine Intervention: WildC.A.T.S. 1
Music: Footloose (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), Various, but mostly Kenny Loggins, duhI mean, didn’t everyone?
But, yeah. I’m supposed to be better than that. I still think, that to this day, she’s one of the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen.
I’m also in awe of the kindness and compassion she shows, which is actually more attractive than her appearance ever could be.
Indeed, that kindness and compassion is one of the sexiest attributes anyone can have, regardless of gender or appearance.
Being a hateful thing only serves to strip even the most beautiful of us of any allure.
Just ask Brigitte Bardot and her Marine LePen supporting ass.
Target: 1600 words
Written: 2093 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: Side Hustle: From Idea To Income In 27 Days, Chris Guillebeau
Comics: WildCats v2 1-3, Wild Times: Grifter 1
Music: Foot In Mouth, Green Day