speaking the truth

Roommate-who-drives has a bit of a fever & feels yucky. They got tested today & have off for the next couple days until they know. SLIGHTLY TERRIFYING.

On the up side, they haven't been home for a couple months, so Other Roommate & I aren't in any more danger than we were anyway? On the down side, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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On the way back from walking to check the mail day before yesterday I checked out another abandoned house. It's had a hole in the roof for at least two months, so I feel pretty good about saying it's definitely abandoned, but it's still in pretty good shape? Everything's locked, though, & that's a step beyond 'walk in the door that's been sitting open' so I haven't gone in. Might do a bit of research, see if I can find the owners, & see if they want anything for it, though.

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I've been working on Tyrava again, on & off, & apart from EXTREME SHENANIGANS getting anything from Home Despot it's been going well. I want to finish all the projects -- doors, the roof, some of the windows -- that I can't move her in the middle of, in case of nearby wildfire. I mean I'd drive her anyway, even with a door entirely not attached, but it'd suck a LOT less if I didn't have to.

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The cats are ... the cats. Loiosh seems to be resigned to staying home for the immediate future. I've decided I'm gonna load them all up in the van once a week & head out to the woods for a couple hours, so they can run around some. That'll also be my 'making phone calls' time, along with Friday errandsrunning.

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My phone camera has died the death. Well, it still takes pictures, but the focus doesn't change, so they're only sharp when you're at the exact right angle. Fortunately my old phone still exists & works, & while it doesn't take great pictures, it takes pictures, so I'm gonna keep using that for a while. This is really not the time to chuck a lot of money at a new phone if I don't hafta.

That said, I've put together the components of a solar power system for Tyrava, & I'm just waiting until I have the guts to do it before I put in the money. That feels like a 'keep myself safe' thing in the same way that working on getting her road-worthy again does -- it's a self-sufficiency thing. Gotta do my deep breathing, but I can't think of a better use for my stimulus money.

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I took some advice I saw on Tumblr about writing -- 'if you're really stuck, shitpost until it turns into prose' -- & banged out 900 words of more-or-less smartassed outline for a story I've been stuck on for. Months. Up side? 900 words! Down side? Fingers really hurt. For three days now. Probably I need to finish this post up pretty soon, because: ow. But I need to figure out a way to type that doesn't suck.

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Hanging in there, more or less. Half a thing at a time.