Ain’t no more redactions, not for three whole days.
Hallelujah.
Praise be to Nggoth.
Target: 1700 words
Written: 1785 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: Radical Compassion, Tara Brach
Comics: Invincible 133-136
Music: Haircut, George Thorogood & The Destroyers (guilty pleasure)I don’t think I’ve ever been so terminally bored at work. Like, I might actually just nod off to sleep and not come back, since my mind has decided it can’t take any more of it.
The worst.
The absolute FUCKING worst.
Although, I suppose it could be worse. I could work in a sewer, or with other people’s shit or something.
I get enough of that with our dogs and cats.
Target: 1700 words
Written: 1726 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: Anyone, Charles Soule
Comics: Invincible 126-128, Tech Jacket v2 12
Music: Hacks | Official Playlist, Various (I really wanted this to be better, because the actual soundtrack was so good)Geez, this editing thing is time-consuming. Granted, when it’s my full time job I’ll spend four or five times the amount of time doing it, but I won’t have a full time job fuckin’ up the works.
Or the work.
Whatever.
Target: 1600 words
Written: 2360 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: Rule Of Capture, Christopher Brown
Comics: Invincible Universe 12, Invincible 110-112
Music: Further Down The Spiral, Nine Inch Nails (every day)Apparently, when you get on a roll, or get in the head of the character you’re torturing behind the scenes, shit goes into flow mode.
Thank god I’m working from home.
Target: 1600 words
Written: 5314 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: The Stand, Stephen King
Comics: Invincible 85-88
Music: The Fruit That Ate Itself, Modest MouseAnd you’re back from vacation, and they assign you work that sucks…
I’m going to be honest. I nearly walked today. I definitely sent a passionate reply regarding the propagation of AI in the Canadian government, plus a spicy response to the quality assurance process, wherein they dinged me for two mistakes that someone else made.
Hell of a way to come back.
Target: 1600 words
Written: 1509 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: The Stand, Stephen King
Comics: Dynamo 5: Sins Of The Father 5 (please no more), Guarding The Globe 2 (please no more), Invincible 75-76 (yeah okay, I'm good with this)
Music: From London To Jamaica, The Clash (is it okay to love The Clash/Sublime, because they're good, even if they're white guys appropriating reggae? I don't care. It's good.)I don’t think charity is necessarily a negative or that it’s always motivated by selfishness.
My personal opinion is that all charities should exist to solve a problem (solve, not just mitigate), then close up shop and let donations flow elsewhere.
Where money is involved, there will be corruption. That’s an inescapable fact of money.
Where exists the possibility for greed, there will be greed. And greed has no place in charity or kindness.
That’s the point I’m getting at – after all. the Trump family runs numerous charities and we all know they don’t give a shit about anybody but themselves.
Solve the problem and get out. Exist only on what you need to exist; make sure the bulk goes where it’s needed, not where it’s desired.
And remember – kindness need not cost a damn thing.
Target: 1600 words
Written: 1617 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, Jules Verne
Comics: Dynamo 5 14, Brit v2 5-6, Noble Causes 34 (reading this version of Brit makes me feel like I'm having a stroke; or the writer is having a stroke, or the writer's first language isn't English, and has used 2006 Google translate to create the English dialogue. The sentences don't even make sense, and if it's for effect, the effect is unintelligible pseudo-babble.)
Music: Frankenchrist, Dead Kennedys (okay, Frank Turner on hold, getting too into it)You know how you spend a bunch of time working on something, then, ten minutes after you finish, you get an email telling you all of the stuff you did, well, the rules have changed and it no longer needs to be done, and those hours you put in?
Yeah, you have to go back and undo it.
Target: 1600 words
Written: 972 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: The Grey Seas Under, Farley Mowat
Comics: Invincible 45, Noble Causes 31, Dynamo 5 7-8
Music: Frank Sinatra Essentials, Frank Sinatra (you know, I expected to hate this, but... I did not)Stupid me, doing actual work at the job that pays me. It takes too much time away from my goofing off.
Is there a way to get paid for goofing off?
Yes.
Many, Empty.
Target: 1600 words
Written: 1527 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: Enchanter's End Game, David Eddings
Comics: Noble Causes 14-16, Invincible 27
Music: FOREVER, Cracker (FOREVER)There is no train, only do.
Do or do not, don’t tell me what to do.
Target: 1600 words
Written: 1469 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: In Search Of The Castaways, Jules Verne
Comics: WildC.A.T.S. v5 10-13
Music: Five Hundred Pounds, Big SugarThan sitting through eight hours of training over Teams, where you don’t even get to do any hands on activities?
Fuck me, I don’t have that kind of attention span.
Target: 1600 words
Written: 896 words, novel: Father Lightning
Read: The Black Unicorn, Terry Brooks
Comics: Grifter & Midnighter 5-6, WildC.A.T.S. Armageddon 1, Wildstorm Revelations 1
Music: First Ditch Effort, NOFX