News for the day

 
I went out running again today. My time was target plus 11:15 (which was actually the time I reported yesterday, but I was wrong and I’ve corrected it). So, I’ve cut 28 seconds, which is good but nowhere near good enough. At that rate it would take me more than three weeks to get up to speed, and I need to do better than that. On the bright side, I’ve dropped a few pounds as well; I need to lose another seven before time for the APFT, and I’m on track for that.

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I’ve posted end notes here for my first-ever fic, “Point of Focus”. I’ll be doing that for other stories as the mood strikes me.

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My daughter sroni, from whom I’ve heard next to nothing since she moved to Ireland, posted on Facebook the other day that her laptop had deleted the files for the stories she’d been working on, including the back-ups. I have a really bad feeling that this means she’s lost the most pertinent work on the segments she still owes me for our joint story “Reversible Error”. I seriously want to finish that one — my own segments were completed by November of last year — and I seriously don’t like the thought of another several months’ delay.

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The original owner of the pit bull my wife ‘rescued’ thinks she might be in a position soon to take him back. That’s good. Not so good? her idea of ‘soon’ is something like three months. He’s a sweetie, but we have to lock up the other dogs whenever we leave the house (because we don’t want them to die the way the cats did), and I’d really like to get that put behind us.

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I can’t keep writing Buffyfic forever; five or six years ago, I wondered how much longer I could continue to care that much about a show which had been canceled years before. I’m still getting ideas, though, and I still love the writing. The audience seems to be dwindling, however, or maybe I’ve just fallen outside the ‘mainstream’; my last fic garnered practically no notice, and I don’t think my story quality has fallen off that far that fast. Originally I wrote purely for my own enjoyment, and I’m still far more concerned with pleasing myself than anyone else. Still, it was nice to have feedback, and if I have to do without that, I’ll miss it.

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Done for now, I guess.