Thursday 7 March 2024: A day book

While I’ve been trying to sort out everyone else’s basic incompetence, I’ve been using a day book. The poet has always used a day book but I thought that was what diaries were for. Well, I’ve found it so useful that I’m literally using it every day. It’s useful for noting down different phone numbers, who I’ve spoken to, who’s ignored me, etc, etc.

I love processes and systems and now I have another one!

I jotted down a few urgent things I had to do yesterday that didn’t appear anywhere else, I made a note of the new current account number so I could arrange for certain payments to go in and out of there, and when our new Probate case manager contacted me (erm…HURRAH!), I wrote down her name and the number she called from.

The plan was, after posting yesterday’s blog post, to go straight into proofreading, just so I could say that I’d done something. However…instead, I fell down a very teeny, tiny rabbit hole and created my own linktree. I added it to my Bluesky and X profiles, and I replaced the ‘social links’ page on here with a ‘linktree’ page instead.

Go and have a look. I’ll wait…

Are we back? Good.

I removed ‘weekly tech scan’ and ‘weekly backup’ from this week’s TickTick, as I’d done them both only a few days before, I did some Monkey Dust admin, I put another wash through, and hung another load up. This one was the dog’s bedding and I hoped it would dry because it’s coming with us tomorrow when we go away.

Over dinner, I caught up on some news and read the key points from yesterday’s budget…to me it just looks like an election year budget. I put another wash load through, and put one load through the tumble dryer. The poet called at what I thought must be teatime and he was calling to let me know he was on his way home, but it was only 2:30pm…

And then – then – I got on with the proofreading job. I managed 2 Pomodoros in the end and cleared 38 pages. I updated the 10-project spreadsheet this job is on and called it a day. It should have felt like night, but it was still daylight when I finished work.

Today, the plan is to brainstorm a short story for an anthology that closes at the end of the month, do some work on THE SECRET OF WHITEHORSE FARM, revive the daily competitions (computer warm-up) and possibly the surveys (mindless side hustle), and carry on editing the naval book I have. I’ll also have the gig list to share, and next week’s diary…

…because we break up today for a long weekend. We’re going far, far away for my birthday, and I’ll be back here on Tuesday.

Have a fab weekend.