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I'll send DoD an invoice.
They might even pay, given these look so similar to the goggles in Weapons of Choice. (And what’s a coupla mill’ extra from their procurement budget anyway?)
Dead queen day.
One of the things about working for yourself is you don't get days off. Unless you feel like a day off, of course, and then you just take it. But other people's holidays tend to sneak up on you.
Cold turkey
I've mostly been off the socials the last week or two, and I gotta say, I don't mind it. I’ve tried to spend as little time as possible on Facebook the last couple of years anyway because it is a toxic suck hole. But I had a pretty bad Twitter habit which got really out of hand earlier this year thanks to the Ukraine situation.
Check list
I was a bit surprised to see I wasn't the only one who breaks up his work day with a bit of exercise, but it's nice to think that others get the same value from it as me.
Writing in the gym.
It’s no secret I’ve been struggling to get the words down this year, and I’m not alone. Everyone’s struggling. I've had a bit of success recently with a couple of tweaks to my work routine that I thought I would share. Although this first one is probably of no use to anybody but me.
First lines of classic novels, if no one had childcare.
Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself, but when she tried to get her kid to put on pants he said that pants were scary and then screamed for 35 minutes so I guess, fine! No flowers!