Procrastinations
All quiet here because there hasn’t been much to report. The principal excitement was receiving my Flu and Covid booster vaccinations for the year and, let me tell you, the Pfizer Covid booster packed quite a punch. That was exactly a week ago and the feeling continues to linger a little.
Other odds and ends have included turning several kilos of damsons and plums into jam and looking out of the kitchen window at all the apples and wondering what to do with them. The shed has had a fresh coat of preservative ahead of winter, and we had a good visit to family in East Kilbride.
I continue to run, although I took time out after the vaccinations. I also now need to focus more on running during the day (because the nights are fair drawing in) and looking at clothing choices as the weather changes. I have no problem running at night, btw, except that Edinburgh’s roads and pavements are in such a state that the chances of injury increase markedly when you can’t see where you’re putting your feet.
Hmmm … am I a Star Wars character or a protagonist in my own right?
On the writing front, work continues on the stories that follow up/complete Coyote in the Corner and I really need to motivate myself to get cracking on that.
In the background, I have a side project of a Star Wars story that I’m going to work up into a novella at some point (although I could divorce it from Star Wars and make it a stand-alone novella free of Lucas/Disney copyright restrictions), an urban fantasy novel set in Edinburgh that has been on the back burner for a while, and I’ve had the first inklings of aspects of concluding the Sanctuary sequence of novels.
Above all, I’ve procrastinated by watching assorted stuff on TV. Notably, I’ve warmed a lot more to Ahsoka and, on a whim, rewatched Obi-Wan Kenobi. I originally found the latter disappointing, but it stood up well on a binge rewatch, albeit that it has issues with it’s core story. My earworms from Star Trek’s Subspace Rhapsody haven’t gone away.
On the tech front, all of my laptops are ancient and my habit is to use them until they stop working to get the most value out of them. The one in the shed is a 13-year-old Windows 7 machine that works but takes longer and longer to boot up. Unusually for me, I’m toying with replacing it with a reconditioned Macbook Air to get into the Apple ecosystem. My requirements are fairly minimal – I need a robust and reliable keyboard, I need to be able to load Office Home and Student onto it and I need it to work with Dropbox.
Exciting, eh?
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