The Facebook Monster

For reasons probably known to just about everyone, including fellow people addicted to the damn place, I just posted a version of this message to facebook:

In the interest of sanity and actually being productive when I get writing time, I am going to attempt to avoid facebook for the foreseeable future.

I will usually get private messages, as they come to my e-mail, and ditto invites, so I may appear on the site long enough to answer those. No longer. DO NOT TRY TO CHAT WITH ME if you see me signed in even briefly. OR, if you do, send me this message "You're not supposed to be here."

Otherwise, I can be reached by e-mail, LJ and Dreamwidth comments (Even on otherwise unrelated topics), phones (including text). Just not there.

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This was the last nice thing to come out of Facebook, thought: A good pic of the family.

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Progress notes for July 7, 2014 (Yesterday)

Possible title sources referenced? - Not really.
Total words new or revised : + 800
Reason for stopping: The hour... which was an hour and a half later than I said I'd go to bed.
Tea: blackberry-sage decaf.
Music: Lord Huron - Brother, Vitas - I ask all Saints, Conjure One (Featuring Poe) - Centre of the Sun
There's Always one more Quirk in the character: Laurel knows how to case a joint, or, in this case, a church.
Mean Things: Doing the right thing should not involve contemplating B&E.
Darling du jour: She could try the dates of their other artifacts, though several of them were damnably vague, and alarm codes didn't tend to work well with "About 1600".
Research: Dates on those artifacts, the church floor map, Google street views of Tower Road, the name for leading in stained glass. (Because Laurel would know)
Books I'm Reading: Chadwick Ginther - Thunder Road, Oriole A. Vane-Veldhuis - For Elise (I thought it high time I finish and discuss this), Pratchett - Raising Steam
To-Read Pile toppers: S. ClarkeCollins - Gregor the Overlander, Katherine Addison - The Goblin Emperor

Inevitable Asides: Yes, I didn't write the days in between. Friday, I finally got out to See4 How to Train Your Dragon 2, which continues to push my happy buttons the way the first did, and spent time hanging out with friends. Saturday there's not much excuse, though I did get JoJo to a park a bit further from home to try him in a wading pool. We had a lovely picnic with friends Sunday (The source of the photo in my last entry), followed by a visit to my mom's place.

And JoJo's potty training has shown further successes. Which is good, as it's about to be all on my mother in law and possibly husband for a few days:

Folk Fest officially starts tomorrow night. And life gets busy.

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Progress notes for July 8, 2014 (Today)

Total words new or revised : 248. And some firm cut and pasting from here to a future chapter, which also entailed some tweaking of an excel file.
Reason for stopping: Finished the scene. And it took longer than the word count implies.
Tea: Teavana Strawberry Rose Champagne Oolong. Because I wanted to watch the leaves uncurl, although it is also tasty yes.
Music: Back to the big music playlist.

Inevitable Asides:
Joseph has learned to climb onto the big kids' swings!

Did a nice board game night with friends, including one just back home from Mexico and two we don't see as often as we'd like.

Thanks to the absurd amount of rain we've been having (When the floods from the *summer rain* are as bad or worse than the 2011 Spring thaw floods, it's something...we're out of flood danger, but we have friends in Brandon and Virden, which... aren't.), I decided I have to swallow my pride and buy Crocs for Folk Fest. My regular sandals need a couple of minor repairs, which is bad enough - but slogging leather through the mud and wet I anticipate would probably finish them off. Except ... Crocs make some rather nice sandals now. So I don't look like I'm wearing Crocs. Win-win.