First Cup of Coffee - July 8, 2019

I'm heading into conference season and nonstop travel, so I'm talking about that a bit and projects I'm winding up before I go. 

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Good morning everyone. This is Jeffy Kennedy. And I'm here with my actually third cup of coffee today. Clearly I'm a little spicy because I'm just as well having a third cup, because I just put the hose on to fill up the fountain and then wandered away, and now all this water has spilled into the gravel. I don't know what I was thinking. Clearly, I was not. So my folks stayed here last night. Oh, I should say, speaking of spacing, today is Monday, July 8th. And my folks stayed last night. And so they just left a little while ago. So I had a cup of coffee before they woke up. And then I had another cup of coffee with them. And so now I just decided I'm going to have a third with my podcast because it wouldn't be Jeffy's first cup of coffee without at least a cup of coffee. And because I needed to focus. We sat out here in the Great Barber last night and I was telling them about the Choi burr festooning done by the pack rat. I ended up doing some emails and replying to comments and stuff this morning. So I think that's a little bit why I'm a little discombobulated. It's nice to have them come visit though, so I don't mind a bit. I ended up taking, I took Saturday off, which was planned. And that was a really good day. Well, I should back up a little bit and say that on Friday I finished the pages on the new shiny. I've got 24,000 words on that, and wrote through the Act One climax. So and I'm happy with it. Hopefully Sarah will be happy with it too. Um today, what I'm going to do is go through and edit, take out the stuff where she felt like it was going a little too slow and flesh out the synopsis and then hopefully send it all to her today. So it was nice to finish that on Friday. I thought I would, once I finished writing, that I would go back and start the editing. And then I decided, no, that I wouldn't give it a couple days distance, fresh brain to look at that. So then I on Saturday, it was fun because I met with my friend Cheryl, the Union therapist, union, I'm not even sure what all her, if I call her a psychologist, but uh she came to the very tough 8 a.m. Saturday morning vinyasa class with me. And she really liked it. It kicked her ass too, but she liked having her ass kicked, so she's clearly my people. And then we went for a nice long walk afterwards. It was kind of a drizzly morning, so it was actually very nice for walking. And then we went to brunch at Chocolate Maven and had a little bit of bubbly with our brunch. That was delicious. And then I came home after that and uh got the laundry going, got all the laundry finished and the house cleaned on Saturday. So I've been planning to work on Sunday doing my new program where you know I'm sort of working uh, you know, on the sort of changing up the days that I have off. But after I wrote my blog post, my SFF7 blog post, I was getting ready to work and I just wasn't feeling it. And my mom had let me know they were going to be there in late afternoon, be here late afternoon, and that they were just gonna go straight on to Tucson on Monday. I'd kind of planned on taking today off to go play with her, but they are anxious to get home. So I thought, okay, well, I'll just take Sunday off and get back to work today. And I might just work five days this week. I don't think David hasn't talked about going fishing anywhere, so we'll see what he says, but otherwise I'll just do the five days. Although I don't have that much to do. Once I send this off to Sarah, then I'm probably just gonna turn around and work on some of these nonfiction projects. Put together maybe this book on writing sex scenes, or put together the blog book on writing. Um yeah. Because I anticipate that I will get line edits back from editor Jenny on the Fiery Crown, the newly named Fiery Crown. And I expect I will go back and forth with Sarah on this new shiny if she's um wanting to jump on that. She just came back from vacay, so we'll see what her timing is like. Um and then a week from Thursday, I start the crazy travel. So we'll see what happens with the podcast. Then I am going to try to be good and podcast the travels. It might be um patchy, but I really am going to try to do this. Even when I feel like I don't have much to say, I think I'll try to say something, at least check in. We'll see how that goes. Because I figured out between July 18th and August 29th, I'm going to be home for 11 days. And only nine of those are sequential. So um, yeah, it's going to be interesting. It's more travel than I'd like. But I'm also just not going to try to write. I've decided that's part of why I put off the fate of the Tala. I'm not going to try to write it till I get back. Uh, this will be the longest break I've had from writing in years and years and years and years. I'm I cannot even sure. I it might be 10 years that I've taken this much time off from writing. Uh, so that will be interesting to see. Um, hopefully it will be well refilling. But I've decided with that amount of travel that it will just be stressful for me if I'm trying to keep up with writing. If I feel like writing, I will. I might jot things down in a little notebook. But otherwise, I'm going to uh not worry about word count. I know that'll be interesting, right? So um yesterday when I decided to take the day off, you know, it was by then like 10, and my folks were gonna be here around 3:30. So I did some gardening. Um, I fixed, I had to fix the dishwasher. The dishwasher wasn't running, and I knew our disposal wasn't running. Every once in a while it jams, and I realized that the dishwasher wouldn't go because it's connected to the disposal. So I I fixed it. I got it all unjammed, and so I was very pleased with myself. Those minor victories over household appliances, you know, or sometimes hard won, but always welcome. Oh. And I did some reading, and I don't really my mom asked me what I've been doing that day, and I was like, I don't know where the time went. I'm on the fourth book of the Murderbot Diaries. I'm on Exit Strategy. I haven't loved the third and fourth books as much. I felt like the third book um sagged quite a bit. It was it was more of a straight-up action battling through a thing, which maybe a lot of other people liked, but I didn't find it as interesting. I did miss art. I missed art from the uh second book. There was an another robot in it, Mickey, but Mickey didn't really um speak to me the same way. Also, one of the things I really like about these books is the voice and the humor, and now I'm more accustomed to the joke. So there's that as well. But still highly recommend. I'm enjoying it a whole lot. And then uh once I finish this novella, then I need to switch over and read a story for a friend because I'm such a nice person. And I don't know. I don't know if there's much else on my mind. Mostly I'm thinking about getting travel planned and doing things like that. Um, there's going to be a lot of exciting things going on with us at San Diego Comic Con. Uh, Grace has gotten a number of things lined up for us to do, so that's going to be pretty awesome. I'm looking at my one plant, uh crystal blue lobelia, appears to have died. I don't know why it did. So I guess it's a mystery. That's just how it goes sometimes. It's so pretty in the other plants, so I wish it was in this one as well. But if wishes were horses, we would all have crystal blue blue lobelia. Right. So I'm trying to think of what else I have to say, and I just don't think I do. Maybe it'll be a short podcast today. Maybe because I've already been talking to people. I used up all my talking to people with my folks. We watched um Why Him last night uh with uh Brian Cranston and James Franco. And I can't think of the girl's name. She's really an up-and-coming actress, I think. W I had seen it a long time ago and David wanted to watch it, and it seemed like a great one. My stepdad is a lot like Brian Cranston, especially with the stuff like the molecular food. He gets so mad about that kind of thing. So that it was a good one to watch with my folks. They were really amused by it, they enjoyed it. So we had a pretty quiet evening. We just got takeout, we sat in the patio or under the grape arbor and talked and had some drinks, and then we got pizza and watched the movie, and it was a pretty low-key evening. It was very nice to spend the time with them. So, yeah, I clearly have nothing else to say. I'm gonna go get to editing. Maybe that's where my brain is. I'm kind of thinking about uh what I'm gonna cut. I made a new version of the document so I can just out take stuff. Um a lot of it's the internal monologue and world building, so I'm a little hesitant about raking it over the coals too tightly because I don't want to lose that world building. But we shall just see, shan't we? And then of course the synopsis is just going to be me making up whole hog where I think this story is going because I have absolutely no clue, as usual. Alas. Well, I kind of have a clue, barely a clue, and it's all subject to change. Okay. So, alright, I'm just gonna go. I'm gonna go do my thing. But I hope you all have a wonderful Monday. Uh getting geared up for the week again, go team, and I will talk to you all tomorrow. Take care, bye bye.