My chair cushion shipped. I mentioned that already I think but it looms large in my brain? I want my chair cushion.
Also ordered KJ's plague doctor mask for Halloween because Oldest Child Is Topical Child, and got a shipping notification for that. Both may arrive Friday. Though the chair cushion hasn't updated in over 24 hours so for all I know it's still in Texas.
May have finished revisions on the latest short story, running it by another reader who hasn't read an earlier draft (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
artan this time). Also did the initial editing pass on the next Celia Lake book with the now-traditional "and these are the additional chapters you need to write to make it go" email. General consensus: this is not a complicated revision, but when set up against In the Cards very few are.
Have cleared the boxes from behind my chair, unpacking and putting away several and setting several aside until I have a functioning cognitive process, which is intermittently right now and not good for box sorting that requires any substantial thought. Have also obtained my first World Series repro poster from the basement and cleaned it up a bit to hang on the wall there when we get around to that.
Stone progress: call it 5/12ths done. There were three little men today (yesterday there was just the mason and his very chatty assistant, with whom I discussed, weirdly enough, politics, and without issue - possibly because we started with dealing with the quarantimes discussion and they know we're careful about masking and stuff which unfortunately has a political affiliation).
I probably had something else to say but I don't know wtf it is anymore.
Also ordered KJ's plague doctor mask for Halloween because Oldest Child Is Topical Child, and got a shipping notification for that. Both may arrive Friday. Though the chair cushion hasn't updated in over 24 hours so for all I know it's still in Texas.
May have finished revisions on the latest short story, running it by another reader who hasn't read an earlier draft (
artan this time). Also did the initial editing pass on the next Celia Lake book with the now-traditional "and these are the additional chapters you need to write to make it go" email. General consensus: this is not a complicated revision, but when set up against In the Cards very few are.Have cleared the boxes from behind my chair, unpacking and putting away several and setting several aside until I have a functioning cognitive process, which is intermittently right now and not good for box sorting that requires any substantial thought. Have also obtained my first World Series repro poster from the basement and cleaned it up a bit to hang on the wall there when we get around to that.
Stone progress: call it 5/12ths done. There were three little men today (yesterday there was just the mason and his very chatty assistant, with whom I discussed, weirdly enough, politics, and without issue - possibly because we started with dealing with the quarantimes discussion and they know we're careful about masking and stuff which unfortunately has a political affiliation).
I probably had something else to say but I don't know wtf it is anymore.
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I have a package in Finland for coming up on a fortnight that can't yet be shipped because DHL has stopped believing in my address, after delivering five or six packages here so far this year.
Shipping's steadily getting weirder.
May your chair cushion find its way, and promptly!
(Also, rocks are heavy; the top courses do go slower than the lower just on the whole "must lift" part. Hope that goes well, too.)
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(The house has two large bay windows flanking the door; the second floor has something of an overhang, so the first floor is somewhat sheltered. There is siding on the second floor, and the enrockening is under the overhang on the first, which is basically four squares arranged square-window-square-door-square-window-square. Leftmost square is complete; left of the door is more than half done.)
My DHL package which was abandoned by the driveway at least moved with reasonable efficiency (Cairo to Frankfurt, I think, and then across the pond). The two FedEx packages are both listed as in their respective initial receipt locations - one Texas, one California - so I suppose I will see which one arrives first. Or even updates first.
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I have had a fair number of Canada Post packages do "nothing, nothing, nothing, OUT FOR DELIVERY". Hopefully FedEx scan more often.
"Four Squares of Rocks" would make a book title.
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Here's hoping Texas gets moving well before the rotating damp comes to visit!