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Daion Echoes through Transglass: 3-3

4/30/2021

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    Is "TGIF" still a thing? Am I carbon dating myself? Do I need to be worried about it, really, if I am? You all know at this point I'm not young, so I guess I'm good with self carbon dating lol. Happy Friday! And thank goodness it is!
    It was a fairly good week. Testing out writing and editing sessions on short stories or in time-limited windows has been working okay this week. Frustrating, but working. I was able to inch ahead on some editing, draft up a short story, and then inch ahead on a bit more editing. At this point I really need a USB connection in my temple so I can plug in and think directly into my manuscripts and stories.
    Outside of writing, the kids finally broke me. My six-year-old was playing a Roblox game that was simply... happy. That's it. It's just a happy game. There's zero competition, players can go as fast or slow as they want, the levels are all fun and/or pretty to look at, and the controls are so easy that even my dinosaur-level brain could understand them. I'd been on the fence about making an account for a few games, but Be A Bee is the one that put me over. I have a Roblox account, now, and I'm not even sorry lol. 
    In all honesty, the mood lift of playing a happy game with my kids has been a really surprising gift this week. This year I realized I have to come to terms with early Spring being a sad time, due to disproportionately many deaths of loved ones landing in this part of the season across multiple years, and this week wasn't shaping up very well for grief side effects. Writing is my usual escape but is extremely limited for me at the moment because of the physical pain it brings. Having a silly game of smiling characters I can play alongside my kids for a few half-hours at a time was an unexpected balm.
    I haven't before in my own life found video games helpful for my mental health (or even entertaining). Silly bees for the win! I hope you get to have a good weekend :)
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        Captain was either still in the bridgeside or had gone back in there when she’d received their short report. Trevor and Leo waited impatiently, working hard to keep the sweep results from showing all over their faces as they were side-eyed by the rest of the bridge crew members on Captain’s shift. It wasn’t odd for people to come in to talk to Captain when they were off shift, but it wasn’t normal for them to come twice, not be requested as present by Captain and yet arriving at a run the second time, and then wait despite being told by lead crew members they wouldn’t be seen because Captain was having an important vid.

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Daion Echoes through Transglass: 3-2

4/23/2021

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    It's another Friday! We're here at the end of another week! Yay us! We all deserve our favorite cookies and most comfortable weekend clothes. 
    Not much new writing from me this week. I found a notebook from ten years ago which contained a few short stories I thought I'd typed up and then lost during multiple computer changes, but they were written longhand and waiting to be re-discovered. They're all typed up now! One needs polishing, another can be rewritten as a perfect intro for adding to a short story series I have going, and a different one is a fun idea I'll likely throw out into the wild for someone else to write. The last was a really abstract and pretty poem brimming with melancholy nostalgia, and I don't know what to do with it other than keep it to read every now and then. Probably it'll end up on my Wattpad lol.
    My big manuscript is suffering from too much story and not enough body-functional time to write it. My arms and hands simply will not allow extended keyboarding sessions right now, and dictation software doesn't work well for me (it fizzles my writing to speak because my voice takes me out of the story; I don't sound like my narrator). I'll have to figure out something, but until I do it looks like pain meds and short stories and sporadic editing sessions will be the way of writing for me.
    In my non-writing news: we ordered a freeze dryer! This is super exciting because we adore the ease of freeze dried foods as ready-to-go ingredients, but over the past five years the company we usually ordered from has become increasingly unreliable (and ridiculously expensive) for the products we like and use. Having a home freeze dryer is going to be awesome.
    We're planning to sell some of the things we like, mostly through renting tables at local markets and trade shows, and we have fingers crossed for some online sales. If we're lucky we'll be able to pay off the cost of the machine in a reasonable amount of time, and if we're not that lucky we'll still have fun participating in local markets and have a bunch of food for ourselves. Not really any loss in either situation. I hope you get to have a good weekend!
Daion Echoes through Transglass by Amanda Flieder
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        “I never went to Academy, I’m not in any class, and shipside is its own caste.” Trevor’s voice was small. Leo scoffed a laugh and sat in the hard seat next to hers.

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Daion Echoes through Transglass: 3-1

4/16/2021

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    Yup, last week totally overdid my arms. I'm still super happy with my clean car, though, so I can't even be mad at how much this week hurts. I can (and did), however, make a doctor appointment because I'm suspicious my arm's nerve pain is actually neck related. Time for x-rays.
    I asked at my last physio appointment if they did full body replacements and the awesome front desk reception replied "not yet". It's been a couple weeks. I should call and see if they do now.
    Needless to say, no writing this week. Instead, I'm re-reading one of my beloved "keep forever" books I bought years ago, Binu and the Great Wall by Su Tong (translated to English by Howard Goldblatt). If you like myths and legends, this is a beautiful one. I hope you have a good weekend!

Daion Echoes through Transglass by Amanda Flieder
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        “Here we go,” Trevor said. She already had the system tuned to the satellites in Daion space and was keying in the final code needed to start the sweep.
        “Oh, wow. You’re really good at this,” Leo complimented. He watched her fingers ticking quickly on the controls.

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Daion Echoes through Transglass: 2-5

4/9/2021

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Daion Echoes through Transglass by Amanda Flieder
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    I overdid it for my body this week, but for the first time in years the exterior and interior of my car is clean. That feels like having today as a pain medication day was worth it. 
    Had a random and weird little short story roll out of my brain this week. It was a blast to type up. Otherwise not much for writing / editing. It's been a lovely week for not writing, however, and I got a lot more done around the house than I expected to.
    The kids are back to school now, and our bird is very content his routine and our house order have been restored. He's almost as cranky as me with routine upheaval lol. Anyhoo, that's all and that's it around here. Hope you get to have a good weekend!

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        The hallway at the base of the wide ladder up to the bridge was lined with brightly lit privates, single work stations available for anyone to use, the broad windows into each giving the hall an illusion of being wider. Leo and Trevor stepped behind the thin transglass of the first empty one and rolled the hanging door closed. It was a neutral space to work in. Otherwise they’d have to go to one of their cabins and…

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Daion Echoes through Transglass: 2-4

4/2/2021

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    Spring Break! This past week was for sleeping in, movie nights, and walks when the weather cooperated. Last weekend brought snow flurries, a wind storm and some lightning, and then cool temps for a few days. Yesterday, however, was beautiful and we visited the still mostly frozen duck pond. A couple of geese ignored us as we waved at them, and there were minnows to spy out at the melted edges.
    This weekend will be for hunting chocolate and keeping our un-vaccinated selves away from large gatherings. Vaccine rollout has been slow in our province. It's starting to look like summer before we can get our jabs.
    During this break I re-confirmed the quickest way to get my kids' attention is to start writing. I'd hoped to sneak some time at my keyboard, but it's like they can smell the monitor's glow lol. No sneaking occurred. Interruptions abounded. A few hundred words here and there add up, though, and as of this posting I'm happy with both my story's progress and the extra kid time. I hope you have a good weekend!
Daion Echoes through Transglass by Amanda Flieder
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        Leo looked at the screen in his hand, supposedly showing the latest scan he and Trevor had completed. He scrolled to the top of the report. It had the first date and time of being submitted to Captain, and the second date and time of having been submitted to Coalition Oversight.

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