Day 165. (TFC Taking A Day Off From Book Editing, Working More With That Blockchain Game Developer, Getting My Laundry Caught Up & Enjoying Some Much Warmer Temperatures)

It finally warmed back up outside a bit today and it was actually pretty nice other than a cold breeze that was not so much 'strong' as it was consistent. Several times throughout the day I thought to leave the door to the shelter open (just to air the place out) but the cold wind never accommodated me doing it for all that long without it getting a bit chilly inside. Overall though, it was the best weather that we have had here in several days and hopefully we get at least one more day of it before another bout of rainstorms move into the area.

All that weather stuff aside. I woke up a little after dawn today and per usual on Sundays I immediately set to working on my weekly Fantastica Chronicles post on Steemit and I actually got it done pretty damn quickly which is nice because sometimes those post really take a good bit of time to get compiled, edited and get all the images uploaded. Thankfully the internet connection here (that has been super finicky of late) worked rather well and all the images successfully uploaded on the very first try which is pretty damn amazing in and of itself because usually at least one of the images takes multiple attempts to complete the upload without any errors.

I think that a big part of the problem with my internet setup is that it has to make so many 'hops' to get to me in the woods and it is not just that I lose roughly half the available bandwidth with each hop (it makes three hops total) but also each router is operating at the very edge of it's range which probably causes a good bit of packet loss and/or packet fragmentation. Do not get me wrong, I am glad that it works more often than not but sometimes it really grates on my nerves especially when I am trying to actually accomplish stuff online that is in one way or another 'work' related. Ultimately I should probably try to just squirrel some money away and get a wireless router that can blanket a four acre area with a strong signal and just be done with it.

Throughout the day I worked more with that Steem blockchain game developer doing some proofreading, editing, some layout design and even a bit of graphics editing. That last bit was a bit of a surprise to me and although I am no 'graphic artist' I definitely know my way around Gimp rather well and after a quick crash course on how to make an image have a transparent background I whipped out a pretty nice graphic that will be used on the website for the game when it launches. Learning a new trick was pretty fun and although I have actually needed to do that before (create an image with a transparent background) I never bothered to learn how to do it until someone else needed it so go figure.

All that jazz aside. After only being awake for a few minutes (while working on my weekly TFC post for Steemit) I glanced at the text file on my desktop that is my book and found myself cringing a little inside at the mere thought of opening it and plugging away at doing more editing. I do not know if it is the sheer amount of hours that I have already put into the editing, the fact that I cannot even close my eyes without seeing text floating around in my mind's eye or what... but I absolutely did not want to do anymore editing today and decided that perhaps given all the aforementioned things that I should just take a break from it altogether. Which I absolutely did even though now a small part of my brain keeps telling me not to be a fucking slacker!

Anyway, even though the weather is about to turn rainy again I went ahead and got my laundry all caught up and got it hung up to hopefully dry before the weather turns bad. I still have not quite gotten over the sheer novelty of there being an actual washing machine at the homestead proper and just how many calories and time it saves me compared to doing all my laundry by hand. After nearly three years of hand washing my laundry I will absolutely never dread doing my laundry again if there is a washing machine involved!

Well, I have rambled on enough for one day and given that I have had a rather mentally active day (helping that developer) my brain is a wee bit worn out and I am going to keep this one short and sweet. I hope that everyone is doing well and has a wonderful day/night.

Day 166. (TFC Getting Up Super Early, Getting In Nine Hours Of Book Editing & Taking An Incredibly Refreshing Nap)

The rainy weather returned this morning and although it was not all that cold it was assuredly not very warm either. A bunch of fog also settled into the area and that combined with the cloud cover did not provide for much sunlight which ultimately amounted to it being a rather dreary damn day outside. It is winter after all so there is no big surprise there but it sure is odd how much it has vacillated between high temperatures and low temperatures the last few months.

This morning I woke up at four o'clock and immediately set to work doing more book editing even before my first nine shots of espresso was finished brewing. Needless to say the editing is still crawling along but at least today I did not cringe at the thought of doing it and was able to more or less work on it rather dispassionately without the content stirring up a bunch of mixed emotions or causing me all that much anxiety which was a nice change to say the least.

I worked exclusively on the book editing for six hours straight this morning and by ten o'clock all that hyperfocusing left me feeling absolutely mentally exhausted and that combined with the aforementioned rainy weather had me dozing off at my keyboard. So I did the best thing that I could possibly do for myself at that point which was to just succumb to the weariness and take a nap.

Although I awoke several times throughout the day I could never quite convince myself to actually get up and I just kept dozing back off which was in part due to having a bunch of rather surreal dreams in which I found myself continuing dreams that I have previously had years before in the past. It is always a weird feeling to 'pick up' where a dream stopped (especially when the dream was had several years before) and it was made an even odder feeling that I was continuing multiple such dreams in a single period of sleep. I am not even going to begin to try to describe the content of the dreams but suffice it to say they were superbly surreal.

Anyway, once I did actually wake up I went right back to editing my book and got in another three hours on it before I decided that a nine hour day of doing it was plenty and that I should perhaps avoid the sort of burnout that I have experienced over the last few weeks of doing it by pushing myself to put in twelve (or more) hours a day working on it. I sure am glad that I am slowly getting towards the end of the daily post section of it and I am really looking forward to moving onto the fiction and getting to the point where the entire draft has had it's initial edit complete. I will of course (like I have said before) have to give the entire text multiple more proofreadings but I am so looking forward to sighing a big sigh of relief after this phase of things.

Well, I do not really have much else to write about for now so I am going to wrap this up and get it all edited. I hope that everyone is doing well and has a nice day/night.

Day 167. (TFC Waking In The Wee Hours Of The Morning, Doing More Book Editing, Working More With That Blockchain Game Developer & Taking A Brief Nap Full Of Surreal Dreams)

It was another rainy day here and it looks like it is going to be that way for the remainder of the week. The flooding in the area (and the state) seems to be an ongoing problem but where the homestead is at everything is rather 'high and dry' and there is not any danger of the flooding directly impacting it besides perhaps eventually washing away some of the irrigation tubing that runs along the creek.

After inspecting the spring water systems a few days ago I am not really all that concerned with the irrigation tubing getting washed away by the water itself but like I said before there is always the chance that trees, logs, branches and/or rocks might do some damage to the tubing or drag it downstream altogether. Thankfully there are only a few spots where the tubing is actually in the creek and any of that might happen.

The only reason that the tubing is arranged that way (in the creek in a few places) is because there were obstacles (trees and/or boulders) in the way along the bank of the creek where the majority of the tubing is installed. I keep thinking that perhaps this year that I should try using some of the water to jet out some small subterranean tunnels (around or beneath) the obstacles and then run the tubing through them and thus solve the whole problem of it being in the creek at all. It all being a test system it was not worth the effort before but given that it is still flowing all these months later perhaps I should really look at ending the 'testing' phase and get everything setup for long-term use.

All that stuff aside. I once again woke up in the wee hours of the morning and was joking with some of my fellow homesteaders that I woke up late because I got up at three minutes past four o'clock instead of exactly at four o'clock. It seems like my sleep schedule is already shifting towards the one that I experience during the warmer months when I am much more physically active but given that there will be a few more months of cold weather it seems like it is a bit early in the year for me to be doing it quite yet.

Anyway, I once again immediately set to working on editing my book as soon as I woke up and pretty much did exactly what I did yesterday and got in a solid six straight hours of editing before actually stopping. I did however do some proofreading and editing for that blockchain game developer that I have been working with during the same time frame but overall it was not all that disruptive to my workflow with the book editing.

Doing all that stuff really taxes my brain a good bit and although I was getting drowsy after the first seven hours of being awake I wound up staying awake for another hour before taking a brief nap which although restful was filled with this really bizarre dream who's details I should probably skip but will try to briefly spell it out in this post. During the entire dream I had this crazy monologue going on in my mind about how to write it all as a journal entry and/or story. It was one of those dreams where I was quite aware of my own life/memories (pertaining to my waking life) and how everything in it had lead me to where I was at in the dream.

A very brief summary of the dream was that I was at first riding in a vehicle with a friend and describing all the waterways along a coastal area and how they related to each other and then something happened and I was on foot walking through some large parking lot where there was a homeless couple fighting over their cat and how to feed it or something like that. Anyway, I bought them a bag of cat food and they for some reason gave me a working cellphone that I (for some unknown reason) stuffed down into one of the rubber boots that I was wearing before trudging off towards my destination which happened to be one of the neighborhoods that I grew up in.

I at first tried to take a shortcut but wound up in a rather poverty stricken part of town and found myself talking to some folks that I knew there and then sort of back-pedaling my way out of there and deciding to take a 'safer' route along a highway. The weather started to turn bad so I began jogging along the edge of the highway and was a bit surprised that there were several other people jogging along the highway as well.

Everything seemed to be going well and I was even jogging beside a few folk and pleasantly chatting with them until this post-apocalyptic looking semi-truck pulled up in front of us and skidded to a halt in such a way that the front of the truck was in front of us and the trailer of the truck was behind us. Several strangely garbed people piled out of the truck and blocked us from running away from them by brandishing some equally strange looking weapons at us.

As it turned out one of the people that I was jogging with had previously escaped them and they were there to retrieve (as they put it) their 'property' and that we should not interfere. I do not know what the hell I was thinking but I was like 'Hey can I catch a ride with you?' and summarily found myself being locked in a cage in the semi's trailer beside the other person that had previously escaped them.

The other person locked in the semi's trailer beside me filled me in on the details of their captivity as the semi-truck roared to life and and began traveling down the road towards some unknown destination but I do not really want to convey what they told me because honestly it was pretty damn disturbing so suffice it to say that afterwards I felt a rather keen desire to escape and put as much distance as possible between me and the folks commanding the truck. Oddly enough the other captive had no desire to escape and they implored me to leave them out of any escape attempt that I might make.

Well, this dream description is dragging on a good bit more than I anticipated that it would but I may as well spell out the rest of it to the best of my abilities even though it is now getting late and I am growing a bit sleepy.

I am unsure how long that I was in the back of the semi trailer but eventually the rear doors were opened and out of them I could see that the truck had backed into some massive landfill that was bordered by these really large cubes of compacted trash stacked upon each other and forming a 'wall' around the dumping area that the truck had backed up to. Somehow I managed to free myself from the cage that I was in and run by all the folks unloading junk from the back of the trailer and although some of them looked surprised none of them moved to pursue me as I bolted towards the giant cubes of compacted trash and ran between two stacks of them.

It took me a long time to actually get out of the landfill but while I was running I kept thinking something like 'this place has to end eventually' and although I occasionally looked behind me to see if I was being followed I mostly just kept running over the trash strewn everywhere and did my best not to fall down into the mess of it or get tripped up by it along the way.

Eventually I made it to the edge of the landfill and abruptly found myself on the edge of a sprawling grassland that seemed to stretch before me for many miles and after venturing just a little way into it I realized that the path I was on had all the signs of something being hunted and something else doing the hunting which gave me quite the chill. I remember pausing on the trail a little ways away from a grass hut because the cellphone I stuffed in my boot was
digging into my foot and I had the realization that perhaps I could call for help but after looking at the phone and seeing it did not have a signal I banished the thought, stuffed the phone back into my boot and went back to running because I had this ominous feeling that whatever did the 'hunting' in this vast sprawling grassland was going to at any moment emerge from the little hut and start hunting me.

The grassland gave way to forest and for a brief moment I felt very relieved but then I began seeing signs of human habitation and I must say that the sort of 'habitation' did not look all that friendly, inviting or even safe for an outsider such as myself. I had the distinct feeling that something very sinister lurked nearby and no sooner than I had that feeling I heard a woman crying out but something about it made me feel like it was a trap so I began running again and as if to confirm my suspicions the screaming changed to a sort of frustrated rage and I heard the woman and a man discussing loudly how the trap had not worked and now they were going to have to catch me.

Things got a bit surreal after that because the forest I was in became very 'house-like' and by that I mean that all of a sudden there were doors, windows and stairs mixed in among the trees, shrubs and rocks and there was not much separation between 'the woods' and whatever peculiar building that I was in if there was truly any separation at all.

I recall climbing up a muddy bank where I came to a window that I crawled through and beyond the window there was a muddy room where a group of chipmunks were hunched over a bowl of berries and although I cannot explain what I meant I said to them 'Awesome! You finally get to eat the berries' to which they made some reply that I cannot exactly recall but the gist of it was 'Yes we do and you better run before they catch you!"

I of course did not hesitate at the sage wisdom offered by those furry little critters and ran out a door of the muddy little room and into what I can only describe as a 'mud flat' that had a swift moving river flowing through it. I was looking around for where to go when I heard my pursuers approaching behind me and given that the mud did not offer a great surface to run on, and there was nowhere to hide, I did the only thing that I could really do other than face my pursuers which was to jump in the water and let it carry me away as I swam underwater and hoped that the folks behind me had not seen me dive in and perhaps dive in after me.

Just before waking from the dream as the muddy water was surging all around me I remember thinking about the phone in my boot and having the very clear thought of 'Damn I cannot even call for help now because the phone is wet!'

Anyway, it was a pretty damn bizarre dream and although I initially resisted the urge to spell it all out I am glad that I did. I hope that everyone is doing well and has a wonderful day/night.

Day 168. (TFC Working Entirely Too Many Hours Editing My Book, Skipping Taking A Nap & Feeling A Bit Moody)

The sun finally came out today and there was even some sporadic blue skies between all the heavy cloud cover which was pretty damn nice especially since it did not rain at all today even though the weather forecasters were calling for more torrential rains. There was not quite enough sun to truly start drying things up around here but at least it did not get any muckier either. Everything is still really saturated and there might be more rain tonight but perhaps the worst of the rainy weather has passed for the moment.

I got up rather late this morning at around six thirty and once again I immediately opened the text editor and began plugging away at editing my book. Besides chatting for a little while with some of my fellow homesteaders and doing a small amount of work with that blockchain game developer I pretty much exclusively worked on my book for the entire day and made pretty good progress overall. I think that I now have only about twenty more days of posts to edit and the fifty odd thousand words of fiction at the end to edit as well but at least 'the end' is in sight.

The entire editing process has been rather illuminating and it is kind of funny (in a sad sort of way) reading all the turmoil of my last few months at That Old Farm. As crazy as it sounds I keep coming across references to what I wanted in the next place I moved to and realizing that I actually got/accomplished all those things here at Fantastica. One of the biggest things that I mention repeatedly in those final months is that I just wanted a good place where I could actually relax and decompress from my long convoluted journey and perhaps even work on a book about it all. It is an odd sensation reading all that whilst sitting in my cozy warm little shelter and editing the book that I am talking about writing in the book that I am editing.

All things considered this has all been exactly what I needed and has been the best winter downtime that I have had since I started taking time in the winter to just relax many years ago, so that in and of itself is pretty damn awesome. I have done a few things differently this particular winter which basically amounts to not spending a lot of time planing my projects for the coming year nor doing any design work for upcoming projects or interesting ideas that I have.
I guess that what I am getting at here is that I have taken a real break from things and am pretty damn happy with the results of what has come about from doing that.

All that jazz aside it was a pretty productive day of book editing and although at this point I am slightly moody (and very tired) from not getting in a nap and pushing myself for so long working on my book today but I do not really have any complaints and am absolutely grateful that things have turned out the way that they have. I hope that everyone is doing well and has a wonderful day/night.

Day 169. (TFC Finding A Wet Weather Spring For Spring Development, Spending Nine More Hours Editing My Book & Inspecting The Flooding Along The Creek)

It was another overcast and rainy day here but thankfully it mainly just sprinkled heavily instead of dumping more torrential rain which is good because there is a lot of flooding still happening in the area and the creeks are all flowing really high. To say the weather has been 'crazy' is a bit of an understatement because like I said a few days ago the temperatures have been vacillating pretty wildly and after the last few days of it staying relatively warm the temperatures are going to take quite the plunge tonight and tomorrow. Not that the cold weather will really phase me much but all the 'ups and downs' as well as the weather forecasters truly 'hit or miss' predictions makes it a bit hard to tell what to expect each day and night.

All that weather stuff aside. I once again got up super early (well actually a bit late because I woke up at five o'clock this morning) and immediately set about doing more editing on my book while my first nine shots of espresso were still brewing which has assuredly become quite the habit of late. I made good progress today though and finally finished editing all the daily posts and was even able to knock out a little bit of the fictional material as well. I am unsure just how long the fictional material will take me to get edited but I am hoping (unless I get totally burned out and take a day off) that I can finish the fictional material by the end of the weekend. Given that it is all just the first pass on the editing and proofreading I am restraining myself from getting overly excited but it is definitely nice to be approaching the end of that particular milestone.

To say that I have my doubts about the entire manuscript would be wholly inaccurate because I have some major doubts about it and just how good of a book that it will make. Do not get me wrong here because I think the fictional part is pretty good but the rest of it (which I think of as the daily posts section) does not quite nor truly illuminate the the full scenario that I found myself in, the stuff that I did along the way, nor many of the real challenges that I faced. The reasons for that are because all of that stuff I thoroughly documented in the daily video making project which I shared privately whereas the written portion of the documentation was being shared publicly. While I did rather well at sharing what I could publicly via the written stuff... for the most part I kept the proverbial 'kid gloves' on. Whereas in the videos I assuredly not only did not keep the 'kid gloves' on I also did not pull any punches.

All of which has me thinking that perhaps what I should do once this book project is finished is sit down watch all the videos and painstakingly write out the unadulterated truth as I see it in such a way that it paints a 'fuller' picture of my time at That Old Farm. It is not that I so much want to create more work for myself by writing another book or anything like that but I have a deep desire to word it all out so that folks have a better understanding of what it was really like. I also think that doing that would give me the sort of perspective and 'closure' that I really need about that particular phase of my life. Ultimately we will see how all of that works out but as of now I am heavily leaning towards the idea as a project for next winter.

Anyway, at some point this afternoon I hiked down to the homestead proper and during my hike I noticed an area near the main trail where a small stream of water was flowing and after following it slightly uphill and pushing leaves around with my boot I found that the water was bubbling up from the ground. I at first thought it might just be surface water because of how saturated everything is but I later went back and dug out a small pool and found one (and possibly a second) springhead flowing from a beige colored clay deposit which is a really good sign that it might be an actual spring. Given that it is obviously a wet weather spring and one that only emerged after a tremendous amount of rain over the course of several weeks during a rather wet winter... I am not going to get my hopes up too much on it's viability. I did however do the first steps of spring development by digging out that aforementioned small pool and a small drainage channel and since the volume of water in the pool did not seem to inhibit the water flow there might just be the potential to develop the site into a source of clean water. My hands were cold when I stuck them in the water so it was hard to gauge just how cold the water was but it was definitely colder than it would have been if it was simply surface water so that is a really good sign to say the least.

After doing all that stuff with that potential new spring I went down to the creek to see how the irrigation tubing and the main springhead there was doing and although the tubing is fine that main spring that we have been developing is now under nearly two feet of water which really is not all that big of a deal but whoa it will take a good bit of work building a wall around it to stop that from occurring again. I am hoping that with all the rain that perhaps I can find a springhead slightly (a few feet) above it that will not be impacted when the creek floods. As soon as the water drops in the creek and I can safely explore that area I am going to see if any new springheads have emerged there which is entirely possible given the terrain, the rocks and the location of the other springheads there. On the bright side of all the flooding the main pool for the existing spring will have had all the silt and mud washed out of it and thus spare me from having to do it by hand!

Well, I guess that is about it for now and I am going to wrap this up and do the inevitable editing. I hope that everyone is doing well and has a nice day/night.

Day 170. (TFC A Very Chilly Day, Watching The Aftershocks Of Tron Acquiring Steemit & Getting In Long Hours Editing My Book)

The weather took quite the nose dive here and between the very cold temperatures, the overcast sky and the brisk breeze it made for a good day to just stay hunkered down inside the shelter and above all else stay out of the elements! Surprisingly though the sun did come out very late in the day and that was pretty nice because it at least helped dry things up a bit around here which is something that is sorely needed given just how much rain there has been lately.

I got up a little late again at five o'clock this morning and once again I immediately set to working on editing my book and I actually quite enjoyed it because I have finally gotten into the fictional portion of things which rapidly lead me into getting immersed into the story itself. Unlike editing the daily posts (with all it's associated mixed bag of emotions) the story itself is quite enthralling to me and I often found myself smiling over what I was reading.

One thing that I have been doing with the fictional portion is creating a 'key' for it containing all the characters, places, timing etcetera so that I will have reference points to draw from and also be able to check it for consistency and albeit continuity. Creating that sort of key is something that I realized that I needed to do entirely too late during the writing of the work (remember it started as a joke) itself and one of the reasons that I stopped adding to the story when I did because I felt (at the time) that it had taken on a 'life of it's own' and I was no longer capable (due to it's length and complexity) of keeping it all in my head and more importantly 'keeping the story straight.' Given that I wrote it all on a phone and that I was enduring a lot of hardship at the time it was very difficult to keep all the details in my head, edit the work on a phone and create such a key that I could easily consult it to verify that I was 'keeping it straight.'

I still do not regret stopping writing on the story when I did because I felt that it had reached not just a good 'stopping point' but a point where I could 'wade' through the text, create a key and correct any inconsistencies without drastically altering the story line which I was absolutely loathe to do because at the time there were several folks actively reading it and ultimately I still stand by that choice.

Now though... I am only about a quarter of the way through the editing and key making and although I have thus far spotted a few things that I may have to alter for the most part there is a lot more continuity than I thought there would be and honestly (aside from breaking things into proper paragraphs) there is not as many typos nor as much editing as I initially feared there would be. I am hesitant to get too jubilant on that front though because like I said I am only about a quarter of the way through and still have a lot of proofreading/editing (and key making) to do. If I keep putting in nine hour days doing it though... I will get to the end of it sooner than later.

While I am on the topic of the fictional material I would like to say that I will assuredly continue the story and there are also parts of it that I (during the time of it's writing) quietly (privately) shared as audio portions only that are not in the main body of the text but I am thinking to write them out and include them in the finished work as it now stands just to fill in a few 'gaps' for those who did not (or do not) have access to the privately shared portions. It assuredly creates more work for me (converting the audio to text by listening to it and typing it out) but I think that it will be well worth the time and very much appreciated by my readers.

Anyway, very late in the day I found out that TRON (yeah that is the only plug for them I am putting in here even if it is not wholly accurate) purchased Steemit Incorporated yesterday. Well it was announced yesterday but who knows when it really happened. The details of it all and the ramifications of the purchase are something that are very confusing and I will not even attempt to spell it out here but let me say that on one level I am extremely concerned about the future of the Steem blockchain. On another level I am just a bit dumb-founded that such a deal even happened in the first place. Then on an entirely other level I find myself wanting to sharpen my proverbial pitchfork and do some good ole fashion rabble rousing in the hopes that the blockchain itself remains decentralized, wholly uncensored and that out of all the upheaval to come that the community itself remains intact. If you are interested in my initial thoughts about it I will include them here for you to read for yourself: https://steempeak.com/hive-174578/@jacobpeacock/tron-s-steemit-acquisition-a-time-for-pitchforks-or-just-playing-the-waiting-game

Well, that is about it for now and I am going to wrap this up before I start tediously pecking out words and launch into some full-on tirade about my current thoughts, feelings and disposition about the entire aforementioned affair! I hope that everyone is doing well and has a wonderful day/night.

Day 171. (TFC Another Chilly Day, Taking A Break From Editing & Spending A Lot Of My Day On Steemit)

It was bitterly cold this morning and everything outside stayed quite frozen and as I often call it 'crunchy' until late in the afternoon when things warmed up slightly and the clouds dissipated. Overall the muck outside seems to be drying up a good bit and hopefully will dry up much more before the next bout of rain moves into the area in the next couple of days.

All that jazz aside. With all the upheaval caused by Steemit Incorporated being purchased the other day I spent entirely too much time last night reading a bunch of posts concerning it and trying to figure out what the heck was going on which lead me to being awake much later than usual and feeling rather mentally exhausted even after getting a good nights sleep. There is just too much involved with it all to truly detail the roller coaster that I found myself on the last few days so just suffice it to say that I am looking forward to getting a good night's rest and feeling a bit less frazzled tomorrow.

Earlier today there was an online video AMA (ask me anything) with the person that sold Steemit and the purchaser of it and although I watched it in it's entirety all I really took away from it is that for the time being nothing is going to truly change on the platform which is a heck of a lot better than yesterday's prognosis which was that everything was about to change. I am really too worn out to articulate things well at this point but considering that I really enjoy the community on there and that I earn roughly half the income I need each month to subsist... the potential changes could really have a disastrous impact upon my quality of life. Ultimately in my opinion those proposed changes were 'back pedaled' from largely due to the outcry of the community and thankfully cooler heads prevailed.

Anyway, I did not work on editing my book at all today which I feel kind of bad about but doing any kind of editing while fatigued and frazzled is just a recipe for making mistakes and doing a piss poor job at it, so I think it was wise to just focus on what my mind was already consumed by, ride the wave (so to speak) and get back to editing when I feel like I have balanced out again. Most likely that will be tomorrow but given that I can only clearly recall taking one day off from the editing in the last many weeks I might perhaps abstain from it tomorrow as well and just 'breathe' for a moment.

Well, I am fading fast here and just want to wrap this up, get it edited and call it a day. I hope that everyone is doing well and has a wonderful day/night.