Wednesday, December 28, 2022
Waxing Moon
Uranus and Mars Retrograde
Mercury goes retrograde tomorrow again
Cloudy and a little warmer
The computer is back and sort of running, so I’m able to do most things from home again. Missed you!
The latest Process Muse dropped this morning. If you haven’t subscribed yet, I hope you will. New musings release every Wednesday. The subscription is free.
Yesterday was a little chaotic. I got the errands done that I didn’t do on Monday. I returned 15 books to the library and posted the blog for the day from their computer. I also sent out the two reviews I’d written first thing.
But it was well into the afternoon by the time I got back, and I had nothing left in the tank to give to THE TREES WHISPERED DEATH. Or anything else, for that matter.
The laptop returned mid-afternoon, supposedly repaired. What they did was reload the operating system, but nothing’s been done to fix what caused the problem in the first place. It took 3 hours to upgrade again to Windows11, get Google up and running, and get Office back in place. It doesn’t look like I lost anything from the hard drive itself except for the downloads, which is fine.
Scrivener won’t download, so I have to try that again. And I have to get DramaQueen again. Not sure what to do with Discord, since it caused so many problems, and I’m keeping McAfee off. All those attempts to uninstall it didn’t work, but now it’s uninstalled, and I plan to keep it that way. I also have to get the other Gmail accounts loaded back in, which will be a major PITA. I shouldn’t be forced to do 2-step authentication.
But I’ll turn my attention to all of that AFTER I’ve written.
The laser printer decided it no longer wants to work. Again. I wonder if it has something to do with the laptop? It was fine with the old Macbook. So, again, AFTER I’ve written, I will set up the new printer.
In addition to THE TREES WHISPERED DEATH (and maybe some work on LEGERDEMAIN), I want to work ahead on posts for Ink-Dipped Advice and The Process Muse. But I don’t know if that will happen today.
The first box of contest entries is also supposed to arrive today, so I’ll have to do the administrative work on those, and probably start reading this weekend. I’d also like to do some freshening up on all the websites.
So much for a week off? Well, last week was my forced week off a lot, sort of.
I’m coming up with a new social media plan for the first part of next year, anyway, that should streamline the daily process and also make my time in each space a better experience for myself and for those with whom I interact.
I’ve made notes on Process Muse posts to early June. I’ll block off some time to batch write posts and schedule them, in case there are more technical difficulties, so I don’t need to worry. And I want to get way ahead on uploading/scheduling LEGERDEMAIN and ANGEL HUNT posts.
Time and energy management are key, going into 2023.
The plan today is to stay home and get everything working again – AFTER I’ve done the writing I want to do. Protect the work. Make sure the writing comes first. That, too, is my key to a creative 2023.
Peace, my friends, and it’s nice to be able to be in contact from my home office!
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So glad you got it back, but a right pain they didn’t fix the issue that caused the crash. Bet you can’t wait until you can factor in a new Mac.
It’s all just so frustrating. But at least I can work – for now.
Oh argh! So frustrating that they didn’t fix the original problem. I hope you can figure all of that out – and darn that printer for quitting, too.
I think the laptop is doing something that makes the printer shut itself down. With Mercury Retrograde AGAIN, I am not looking forward to the next three weeks.
Mcafee is the ultimate evil.
It caused so many problems.