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It’s been a hot summer but fortunately the temperature is going down. Sunset is arriving earlier and earlier. I won’t have to go for a walk near or after sunset as much. My changing walk times to keep up with the optimum temperature of 70 degrees might interfere with my writing but so far that isn’t a concern yet. The good news for me is that finally someone was found in my area that could help my older brother and I train for and find a job. We’ll meet her in September and talk about our next steps. I don’t know if we’ll be job training and going to volunteer jobs right away but I hope it’s not too disruptive to my writing. At least if I get a paying job, I can pursue stories and services that interest me. I try to only spend a certain amount of money per month so I don’t disperse my funds recklessly. Still trying to socialize at least every other day but sometimes I can’t find anyone to talk with or I’m too absorbed in something else. Maybe these job opportunities would be a good avenue for socializing too. ( Review and spoilers for The Fantastic Four: The First Steps )

That’s all for now. Free Palestine and free hostages on all sides. Down with Trump and all conservatism that’s connected to fascism. I’ll see you at the end of September.

Finally got a new agency to help me find a job. Last Wednesday, a woman came around and with another person on a virtual call, explained she will find a job coach near us to help us with our job skills and build experience. Unfortunately to get any jobs, I’ll have to do unpaid volunteer work. I’ll also have to work 5 hours a week, divided between job training and then working somewhere. That might mean I’ll have less time to watch or read certain things. For catching up with missed writing days, that might be awkward but I’ll deal with it as it comes. Who knows, I might still be sitting at home doing my hobbies for much of the day but at any rate, it’s some progress. I’ll remain in contact with the woman who dissolved her previous agency, just in case.

( Review and spoilers for Superman 2025 )

That’s all for now. My tooth fillings have been redone and with a numbing regiment less extensive and less long lasting. I’m glad for their work, though I’m also glad I won’t have to come back to the dentists until December. Free Palestine and may Trump and his ilk fail within their lifetimes. Until the end of next month, see you!

Last weekend was a trifecta of technical problems. On Saturday, our wifi suddenly went out. I observed Dad and helped what little I could to find what the problem was. I was concerned when the wifi box smoked as Dad experimented with it but after cutting some wires and testing their voltage, he brought the Internet back, even if it went in and out for a bit. Then Dad needed my help to fix air conditioning for a live-in relative’s car. It seems like some wires were reversed since it only worked when the car was off. With high 90s heat coming, Dad had to come up with a solution. He couldn’t figure out where the problem was and how to reverse it, so he made a stopgap that would bypass the problem (I’m being vague in case it breaks some law). Then last Monday, the wifi kept slowing and then going out, leading to Dad having to grumpily reset it twice. It was stressful. I tried to follow what he was saying but his explanations weren’t always intuitive. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to fix things and figure out problems like he does. I also dealt with a slowing laptop but I think I got to redo some of it by changing to having the highest power plan.

( Review and spoilers for Living Large )

That’s all for now. I recovered from having a tooth filling redone today and will have to go back at the end of July for the other fillings to be fixed. Free Palestine and no war with Iran. Until the end of July, see you!

The new screen works. After practicing taking the old screen off and on to mitigate its issues, I was able to put on the new 1 with the only problem being almost losing 3 screws. I had to really crawl on the carpet and use my phone light to track each of them down. I needed to shut off and restart my laptop but after turning off the touch-screen which I never use and some resizing since the screen was wider, I don’t have to deal with freezing or discoloration again. Other than text and icons being a bit bigger, the experience is not that different from my previous screen. I won’t move the screen if I can help it and if I do, I’ll move it with hands on both sides so I don’t get those issues again. I’ve had this laptop for over a decade and I hope I can make it last as long as I’m able to.

Speaking of new things, I got a new chair from a relative who passed away. I was comfortable with the old chair but it had holes and stains, so I was persuaded to switch it out. So far the new chair is comfortable and the only downside is the armrests being too wide to put my headphones on. This happened a few days after I was suddenly asked with helping bring and reorganize said relative’s items and furniture into a storage container. Dad seemed to indicate it would be quick but if I knew it was going to last a couple of hours, I would have been more hesitant. I also brought my coat because the weather was on the borderline between cool and warm but all the hard work made me sweat a lot by the time it was done. I did wonder if I’d have to skip writing that day but I managed to squeeze it in. On the bright side, I had my exercise. Dad had me help him with a few other things following that and fortunately they weren’t quite as long. If they interrupted my writing, I extended my writing block by the amount of time I was occupied by the other task.

( Review and spoilers for Suzume )

That’s all for now. I had a dentist cleaning and will need to go back again at the end of next month to have some of my fillings redone. I’ve done additional vacuuming yesterday to finish it today because Mom and I are going to a film someone she knows voiced a role in Sunday and I didn’t want to juggle too much tomorrow. Free Palestine and release hostages on all sides. May Trump fall and conservatism be seen as the threat to democracy it is and might have always been. Until the end of the June, see you!

Our rabbit passed away. She was not eating but otherwise acted normal. Then there was a day where she increasingly moved less and less. We tried our best and I did some massages to her I saw on youtube, but she was gone by the morning. It was a shock. My parents cried and were wracked with guilt. I wondered if we wouldn’t get anymore pets but Dad after a week wanted another rabbit and he tracked down shelter with one specific rabbit he liked. I was concerned he would be upset if someone else nabbed her first but it turned out she was at the shelter for a while and she’s a lot bigger than our previous rabbit or the photos implied. She’s still skittish with being petted but I’ve been laying near her with my hand out and talking to her, getting her used to my presence. She’ll nudge and sniff me now, which is great, but it’s still a work in progress.

On Friday, my laptop’s screen issues got even more aggravating. I had to type this paragraph 1 handed that day while another hand pressed the bottom strip below the screen. The constant screen discoloring and even freezing even when I touched other parts of the laptop was frustrating and I tried all combinations of pressing and moving the screen up and down. I’m afraid that might have exasperated the problems. I asked dad to get the screwdriver he used for taking apart the laptop to see if pulling the screen off and back on helped. I lost a screw 3 separate times, the last time I thought I lost it for good. Still, pulling it off and putting it back on seems to alleviate the problem somewhat, so I’ve been keeping the screwdriver nearby. Before I ran across that solution, this problem finally made me go on Ebay and order another screen but when it arrived today, its video cable port was smaller and so have to send it back tomorrow. I didn’t learn from last time that I should look up the model number of a part I want to replace. I did that earlier and it’ll be here within 2-5 days. Hopefully I chose the right 1. Maybe finally I’ll at last get rid of the screen freezing and flickering I’ve been dealing with for nearly a decade. It’s been severely cutting into my time writing, and reading and watching things I like.

( Review and spoilers for Weathering with You )

That’s all for now. Down with Trump and down with apartheid in Gaza and the West Bank. May hostages on all sides be free. Until the end of May, see you!

Dad helped repair my laptop twice this month. I found I actually got the correct hinges and back cover from ebay, complete with wifi wires along with the latter so I didn’t need to order the other wifi wires to be begin with, which mightn’t have been the right 1s and never seemed arrived to my home. I did express to Dad interest in helping take the laptop apart, so he taught me how to remove the screws but not much more than that because we’re dealing with delicate parts and don’t want to take all day to accomplish the task. But I found I ordered the wrong screen cable, which only connect to 2 out of 3 places. Dad had me take a close up picture of the names and numbers on the original video cable to find a replacement. I found 1 on another site aside from ebay and ordered it. When it arrived, Dad confirmed it was the right 1 and a few days later we installed it. Dad tried to put back the cover around the screen but the back cover seemed to be of a different size. That didn’t fix the screen freezing and strange colors, though they’ve lessened. Dad thinks it might be the screen that’s the issue, probably from me closing the screen only from 1 side long ago. I heard the advice that you should move the screen from both sides to prevent that but I’m not going to move it unless it’s necessary. I’m not going to buy another screen yet, wanting a break from taking the laptop apart and replacing parts. Hopefully if the issue the screen persists, ordering 1 will fix the screen issues.
( Review and spoilers for Mamoru Hosoda's Belle )

That’s all for now. May Trump be stopped and fail utterly and Palestine and all hostages be free. Until the end of April, see you!

After some fits and starts, I finally restarted writing. Though I’m not completely out of the woods yet, my cough has calmed so much that I can maintain a decent sleep schedule and can write without much distraction. I let myself re-listen to youtube videos at night which threw off my sleep schedule but I finally got that out of my system and am back to normal. I’m already inputting changes to the second to last chapter for my mon-inspired story. The last chapter might be difficult, since it involves dropping in moments of characters from 2 different groups coming to like each other without extending the chapter’s length drastically. Writing freeform fanfic has experienced similar delays but it has its pleasant and frustrating moments. I plan to resume making up missed writing days starting next month with Tuesday for fanfic missed days and Wednesday for original fic missed days, though I’ll skip if those days are too busy for any reason. I might finish these missed days within half a year but I’ll try not to stress myself sticking to the schedule.

I’m getting more screen freeze issues, so after some digging, I found the model number for my laptop and was able to track down and order the exact screen wire for it. I didn’t order the other parts yet because I didn’t want to have another situation like last month where they didn’t fit after all. If it works, I’ll order more parts in the future. While dealing with the screen issue, the white wire of the 2 wires for the wifi antenna broke. It still allowed me to use to the Internet but it was inconvenient. Dad fixed it last Friday but when bending the screen up and down to make the screen unfreeze, the white wire broke again. I think I found a replacement but I’ll have to double-check if it’s the super-exact right model. Maybe I should ask Dad to show me how to take apart the laptop myself. He’s getting on in years and I want to be able to deal with more of these technical problems at my own discretion.

( Review and spoilers for The Boy and the Heron )

That’s all for now. Free Palestine and the hostages on all sides. May Trump and Musk fail utterly in their goals. See you at the end of March!

Still struggling with a cough. It’s been over a month since I’ve got sick and my sleep schedule has gone on a roller coaster. I’ve taken 3 regiments of medicine from my lung doctor and it’s barely calmed down. I went Tuesday to ask for the third regiment. As far I can recall, this isn’t the first time I needed to try 3 rounds before something worked but sometimes I get paranoid my colds are getting better at dealing with the steroids and antibiotics but they don’t linger for long, since I’m not that special or interesting for something like that to happen. That also meant with a few exceptions, my writing is still on pause. I believe I’ll be able to catch up within half a year if there aren’t any more delays but I’ll deal with the issue day by day. My sickness also means I’ve again skipped watching and reviewing a film this month because I want to relax.

Dad and I got the replacement parts for my laptop. But the catch was, despite his efforts, they weren’t the super exact parts that fit my laptop. We couldn’t replace anything in the end. Fortunately, my dad was able to put my laptop back together but it’s frustrating its issues couldn’t be resolved. The screen wire is still touch and go and I have to touch the exposed insolation around it and bend the screen up and down to make it in workable. Mom already threw out the packaging, so we can’t return the items. I surmise I’ll just work with this laptop for as long as it could function.

The headphone jack adapter I ordered took so long to arrive I ordered another 1 from the same group but a different deliverer. I got the second 1 very swiftly and so far it’s reliable. I was thinking of contacting the Post Office again this week when on Monday I checked the package tracking app and found a few updates had at last appeared saying that it traveled to Massachusetts and then to my state! More updates followed and by the time Mom and I got home from shopping later that morning, it already arrived. I’m glad to finally have that missing item accounted for and it will be nice to have a backup if and when the current 1 breaks. I called for updates earlier in the month and got some response but otherwise I got mostly silence. Oh well, what’s done is done. I hope this doesn’t portend to how the postal service would operate under the Trump administration but I know there were weather issues on the route for my package, so hopefully that was the extenuating circumstance that delayed it.

That’s all for now. May Trump fail horrendously and here's a source to donate to for his attack on undocumented and other immigrants. May hostages on all sides of Israel’s attempted genocide of Gaza and current 1 in the West Bank be freed. Until the end of February, see you!

The end of another year. There’s stuff I can be proud of, like finally finishing We Will Find On Forever and shifting my main focus to original fiction. I’m also trying to socialize when I can joining livestreams and audio chats with those I know on Discord. I still haven’t found a job but I know how difficult the process is and so don’t put much brain space into it. Just taking it a day at a time, which’s helpful, particularly with how this country voted not long ago. It’s a difficult balance between being informed and not so filled with bad news you can’t function. I sometimes fall for the temptation of looking up more bad news and the low mood it puts me in isn’t great. Hopefully I can do even less of that in the next year. I thought I could escape getting sick this year but on Sunday, I caught a cold. I guess that’s unavoidable in winter, especially since I wasn’t sick a second time like usual during a year. Of course it threw up my sleep schedule but I’ll deal with it day to day and get medicine as it intensifies. That means I didn’t see Wicked with my mom like planned but that would just have to wait.

Last week was a time of technical difficulties for me. I’ve been struggling with screen issues with my laptop where it would either freeze or change colors for years and in attempting to fix that, my wifi suddenly became very low and gave out with increasing frequency. I was at a loss to the point I asked my dad to fiddle with the wifi but only it only caused more issues for my laptop and only it was experiencing the issues. On Friday, after struggling to watch and play anything, I decided to take the laptop apart to see what was the issue. I accidentally roped my dad into it and he chided me a few times I should have brought replacement parts if we were going to do this. Dad found that the wifi antennae wire was broken and after putting the screen back in, he soldered the wires so they could connect and now my wifi is 3 or 4 out of 4 bars. I owe a lot to him, even if he can be a bit old-fashioned at times. He’s helping order new laptop parts to replace those that are broken. It’ll probably take a while but it’ll be good to have my laptop finally fixed.

Also the headphone jack adaptor for my phone abruptly cut out. After desperately trying to make it work, I tried to order a new adapter, only to find that model completely sold out. I ordered another model but had to return it because it didn’t fit my phone. For now, I have to use earbuds, which aren’t nearly as good and keeping falling out of my ears. I tried to put them in backwards looping the wire behind my ear or pulling my earlobes up before inserting them. I can’t listen to audio dramas while vacuuming, so I had to make do with listening to familiar youtube videos with my regular headphones over the earbuds to pass the time. Looking it up, there’s rumors that Apple’s discontinuing that adapter because it’s for “outdated phones,” which’s distressing since I’m the type to continue using a piece of technology until it’s irrevocably beyond repair. I did find and order an equivalent adapter but I hope it won’t be an increasingly expensive struggle to keep ordering. Moreover, I want to order another adapter so I can have 1 handy when my new current 1 breaks. I don’t want to be caught unawares like this again.

I’m a couple chapters away from completing the third draft for the mon-inspired story. It likely still needs more rewrites but I want to leap to its sequel and have another pair of eyes look at it. I need to make sure it’s comprehensible to a reader. I’ve finished doing most of the fanfic plot outlines and last did writing for the Digimon Tamers fanfic. It had its ups and downs but I enjoyed myself. I planned to pause in January to do another rewrite of a plot outline but getting a cold on Sunday put my writing on hold. Just when I almost made up for all the missed writing days from being sick last year. Ah well, having days where I double-up on my writing has its perks and it means the weekend writing doesn’t become too neglected as a result.

That’s all for 2024. I’m writing this on Monday night. Free Palestine and hostages on all sides. May Trump and his is ilk fail utterly in their tasks. Until the end of the first month of 2025, see you!

So, yeah, hopefully my ending message last month didn’t jinx the current election results. It’s scary and frustrating this country voted for a fascist yet again. It’s also frustrating the opposition thought the best way to deal with that is to go to the right. Few want diet Republicans when they can get the horrible real deal! Harris refusing to deviate from Biden’s more negative policies probably also played some role but also too many are tuned into misinformed right wing media. I’m aware people like me will be down the list of being harmed but I’m nervous about the services we rely on that might be cut. Moreover, people of all sorts shouldn’t have to deal with bigotry and having resources taken away! At any rate, I hope there’ll be maximum resistance against Trump and his presidency be an unqualified failure that brings his ilk down for good.

At any rate, still keeping up with my writing. I’m getting to the end of the fanfic plot outlines I want to change and I have the feeling after I finish the first draft of the final 1 done, I might try to write out 1 of the stories for fun. I have 10 make-up days left where I double up on writing. With the end in sight unless I get sick again, I’m wondering if I should double-up to also write the next entry in my mon-inspired book series as I’m a few chapters away from finishing the 3^rd draft. In preparation, I’ve finished a last rewrite of the plot outline for the next entry. Hopefully I can get to writing it soon.

( Review and spoilers for The Batman )

That’s all for now. I came back from a dentist cleaning Tuesday and had pulled back wearing the retainers to 3 times a night over the weekends. Apparently I’m taking care of my teeth well. Hopefully no political machinations make me lose my insurance. Free Palestine, Lebanon, and free hostages on all sides. Until the end of the year, see you!

My family decided to vote early last Wednesday. Early voting was conducted at the town hall, in the theater room where my mom apparently did a few plays. It was a long and confusing process, with a line for first confirming who we are and handing us the ballot before going to a line on the other side of the theater where they confirmed our identities again and gave us envelopes. I got the sense more people were coming at the same time as us and the election workers were a bit understaffed. Filling out the ballot took longer than I expected, since the pens didn’t have enough ink to fill the bubbles. My younger brother had to remain behind for a few minutes due to a similar issue. We also had to go somewhere else in the building because we’re getting rid of a car and she wanted to double-check a few details. To my relief, it didn’t take long in the slightest. Apparently, early voting in our town’s a more recent option and when we stopped by to deliver car disposal paperwork later that week, the parking lot was still packed with early voters. I hope early voting and mail-in ballots become the norm in our state, it would make voting easier for everyone. At any rate, we voted for the Democrats. I did it to stop Trump but I’m still unhappy especially about their foreign policy conduct and will definitely still call my representatives every weekday to push them to stop supporting Israel’s genocidal attacks on Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon.

We’ll have to deal with having only 1 car at the moment. The other was rarely used and it became too much of a time and cost sink with it repeatedly breaking down. I hope we’ll be able to manage since my younger brother, who can drive, has a weekend job he’ll now need to be dropped off at, and my older brother and I are still looking for jobs and have other appointments that might intersect with events where the car might be used. I guess that means we’ll have to be more diligent in putting our appointments and events on the calendar. I’m glad I decided to get a card for my next lung doctor appointment because when I had mine last week, I only knew I had 1 because I got a 24 hour reminder call. I don’t know if I never got a card or if it got lost but maybe I should write down those dates personally so I can be sure they’ll be there. I hope my insurance won’t force me to go too out of the way to get the care I need, since they’re changing how much they’ll cover and apparently a few providers I go to are going to stop accepting my insurance. Dang it, we need socialized healthcare in this country already!

( Review and spoilers for The Wild Robot )

That’s all for now. Free Palestine. May Trump and his ilk be utter losers in this election and their political clique collapse out of relevancy. Until the end of November, see you!

At last, I’m done with my fanfic We Will Hold On Forever. It has been a long 7 years but earlier this month, I did a last couple reviews of the final 2 chapters and then posted them a week apart. I admit, it didn’t feel anything strong when I posted the last chapter, but I don’t mind that much. I want to thank those who read and especially reviewed the story over the years. It was my first long story that I posted and I learned a lot about editing and writing while doing it. I might post another fanfic eventually but my focus is now on my original fiction.

Editing the third draft for my mon-inspired story is going glacially slow, since there are many sections I want to rewrite from the ground-up. I don’t know if I’ll do NaNoWriMo this year, since I thought it would be useful to complete my other book ideas including sequels. I was going to do it informally anyway since I didn’t want to have to use a website but I definitely won’t use any affiliate websites now if they’re going to continue with this AI nonsense. I would probably do it more than once in a year, since I want to complete more books, which’re around 100,000 words in length. I wonder if I could have breaks to write other stuff on weekends or if that would be too much for me. I would probably have to sacrifice a few other hobbies for those months to continue writing. Ah well, I’ll get to it when I can and see how I fare.

( Review and spoilers for My Father's Dragon )

That’s all for now. I’ve been finishing this entry up after I got back from shopping with Mom. Free Palestine and Lebanon. Free everyone held prisoner in this colonialist war. Until the end of the month of Halloween, see you!

So, I changed some of my writing and reading patterns again. I discovered on 2 days where I read my library book in between writing that I write more or it’s at least not as much of a slog. This also left me more wiggle before bed, so I decided to switch this to everyday. I was losing interest in the other book I read while writing anyway. For fanfic writing, I’ve finished the plot outline rewrite and will wait 6 weeks before touching it again. In the meantime, I’m doing a bit of Digimon Tamers freewriting, doing scenes that have lingered in my head for a few years now. There isn’t exactly a plot – I just follow where my whims take me. I do think of grafting the first few scenes I wrote on an old outline. I don’t know if anything I’ll write here will be posted but I’m enjoying it and I think that’s good with my focus on completing my mon-inspired original story. With around 20 fanfic writing days left to make up, I decided to shift to once a week so when I run out, it won’t be as jarring to just writing fanfic on weekends. I did miss an original fiction writing day, which I could use when I briefly switch to fanfic writing on weekdays to review and post the final chapters of We Will Hold On Forever. That’ll start on 9/10. I found making up for a missed writing day with the same story I just looked over earlier that day overwhelming.

( Review and Spoilers of Over the Moon )

That’s all for now. Free Palestine, and release all hostages and political prisoners. Until the end of September, see you!

I tried going back to reading 24 pages a day of a library book for week. With my huge reading list and noting I was barely putting a dent into the A authors, I thought I should read more than my previous 12 pages a day. From that experiment, I believe I can maintain 24 pages a day but I would have to go to bed 10 minutes earlier and I can’t be distracted too much before I finish reading that number of pages. My brain initially felt like a book was shoved into it the first few nights but that eased by the weekend. Having 10 more minutes to relax without screens will hopefully help with my sleep.

I also finished the final draft for the final chapters of We Will Hold On Forever. It took forever to finish the rewrite notes but when I started, I was going through 5 to 6 pages a day. I’m going to wait 6 weeks before I do a final review of the chapters and post them, since this week I finished reviewing the previous 2 chapters that will close out the conflict of the story. I’ll be interested in seeing how others react to these final chapters. Don’t hold me to it but I believe I’ll be finished with this fanfic September or October at the very latest. I haven’t decided what fanfics I’ll write next, so for now I’m rewriting an outline for a Digimon fic that I changed to make distinct from another story but later wanted to change it back. I don’t know if I’ll ever post it – if anything, I might just post 1-shots.

On other writing news, I decided to change how I rewrite original fiction. I’ve been doing rewrite notes for the whole mon-inspired book but I find I forget the things I want to change as I go along. So now I’ll take rewrite notes a chapter at a time, pausing to implement the changes before taking rewrite notes for the next chapter. Since I did half the rewrite notes already, I’ll reread the following chapters to see if there’s any additional things I want changed before implementing the changes. Since I’m almost done with We Will Hold On Forever, I’m switching to writing original fiction on weekdays (barring when I go to review said fanfic’s final chapters), so I’ll see how helpful this strategy is before long hopefully.

( Review and spoilers about My Oni Girl )

That’s all for. Free Palestine and release the hostages on all sides. If you can, here’s a link to donate to those in need. This is the awful natural conclusion of colonialism. I’ll see you at the end of August.

Already halfway through the year already. I might have said this before but it’s amazing how fast time passes by taking it a day at a time. I’ve been taking walks around sunset since it’s getting so hot but I have to deal with possible rain when I go out. Last Sunday, I checked my weather app and thought there was only a risk of a light sprinkle, so brought an umbrella along. There was a brief shower that came and went but on the last minutes before I began the journey back, it rained and this time came down hard. It was such that I could only look a few feet ahead of my shoes and the wind blew my umbrella about, making me fear it would be blown inside-out – wouldn’t be the first time that happened to me.

Fortunately, my umbrella remained intact and the rain and wind let up somewhat the last 3 to 5 minutes before I returned home. But my shoes, shorts, and parts of my shirt were soaked through. I changed out of most of my day clothes a few hours before bed and then decided to put my soaked t-shirt in the hamper too. My shoes were on their way out anyway, so my Mom used their soaked state as an excuse to toss them and for me to use the new shoes she brought that had been sitting near me for several weeks. They do feel a bit loose when I put them on but I’m quickly getting used to them. Maybe I should be more careful when rain appears in the forecast. Though I took another walk a few days ago without an umbrella only to have to start jogging back when it started drizzling, so I wonder how much I learned from that experience lol. In the meantime, I’ll continue to take walks whenever the temperature’s tolerable.

On Monday, I’ll finish draft 2 of the final We Will Hold On Forever chapters. I completed roughly 2-4 pages of rewrites a day and it was so much faster than doing the rewrite notes themselves. I’m going a bit slower with doing draft 3 rewrite notes for my original mon-inspired story. It’s mostly been thinking of smoother and more elegant replacements of clunky sentences and dialogue. There are times where I wonder if I’m not making enough substantive changes. But I surmise I’ll have that clarified if and when I show this original story to others for feedback.

( Review and spoilers for Ultraman Rising )

That’s all for now. Free Palestine and hostages on all sides. Until the end of July, see you.

I finally got my retainers. After a bit of a wait, I went in admittedly not knowing what was going to happen. After drilling down the hooks they applied on my teeth for the Invisalign, they started stringing floss between some of my teeth and applying gelatinous material on my center front teeth. Mom and I didn’t expect it would be this long involved process. Tools to dry and suck up saliva were shoved in and pulled out of my mouth. At last it was done and I found my front teeth seemed to be glued together. Then I had another mold of my teeth made for my retainers. We paid the last of our bills and a week later, I got the retainer surprisingly fast.

I asked questions about how to deal with the glue-like stuff on my teeth, since it gets in the way of flossing and they said I should get floss threaders, which’ll help in the small gaps between my teeth and gums. We’ll have to order those online, though they were bemused I use both floss picks and water piks, since they thought if I had the latter, that was the only thing I needed. They did mention that after the wearing the retainer nightly for 6 months, I should downgrade it to 2-3 times a week, which I’m considering doing over weekends. I no longer have to go back to the orthodontists’ until something goes wrong with my retainers. In some ways, my teeth treatment’s still ongoing but I’m glad the process that took over a year is over.

I’ve hopped back to the mon-inspired original story after many delays. So far it’s just rewording lines or sentences for the first 60 pages. I’ve started on chapter 3 and I haven’t gotten to more substantial edits so far, though sometimes I think I should, either to add more details or change the events presented. Oh well, I’ll see how I go. I’m also doing rewrite notes for the final chapters of We Will Hold On Forever, albeit very slowly since there’s much I want to change and I keep tempting myself with distractions. Still, I’m over a third of the way through.

( Review and spoilers for Godzilla x Kong A New Empire )

That’s all for now. Had scary family fight near me yesterday and that shook me up. But the parties apparently apologized and settled things, so that’s somewhat assuring. Free Palestine and hostages on all sides. Until the end of June, see you!

Had confusion over a dentist appointment earlier this month. The name of the group was similar to the orthodontist group I go to and I initially crossed it out on the family calendar, only for them to call and after some talking, I realized they were the dentist group I go to have 1 additional cleaning every year. I had to modify the crossed out calendar note that I actually do need to go there. After talking with Mom, I determined I should stop going there and have the additional cleaning at my usual dentist, where it’s a bit cheaper and to keep things consistent. I told them I won’t be appearing here and they took it well, though my paranoid mind thought the high price tag was a slap for announcing that lol.

I’ve finished draft 3 rewrite notes for a couple chapters of We Will Hold On Forever. Taking down the things I want to correct takes a while but actually implementing the corrections doesn’t take as long. I even began edits for posting the next chapter today, which mightn’t take too long, since it’s pretty short. It helps that I’m less distracted while writing and editing. I had to delay writing my original fiction more than a couple times this month, including today, and so I decided to push back returning to draft 3 of my mon-inspired original story. I want to linger on the wrestler story a while longer and yes I’m a bit more detailed about what these stories are about, since otherwise it’s difficult to specify which original story I’m talking about otherwise. I wonder if I should post it somewhere for others to review. I read that after completing the 3^rd draft, you could finally show your story to others for feedback.

( Monkey Man review and spoilers )

That’s all for now. It’s frustrating the genocide in Gaza continues but it’s heartening to see all those protesting and acting to stop it. I’ll speak later at the end of May.

I finished draft 2 of my original story. It took a while since it was often done on weekends but I’m glad of the progress I made, going from 86,169 to 100,953 words and from 305 to 363 pages. For the next 6 weeks, I’ll be concentrating on rewrite notes for a master project I did. I did begin draft 4 edits of it but I wasn’t feeling it, so I decided to start over. I don’t know if this’ll go anywhere since I’ll still be concentrating on the first story but we’ll see. I did experiment with another original story last Sunday since I was undecided over whether to do the master project rewrite or that but the master project rewrite called to me more.

I’ve also been reading the Nanowrimo and other writing advice books that I have in the house. Some of the suggestions I might consider doing and have already done the suggestion of asking about an interesting relative with my therapist. I’m considering doing some Nanowrimo after I’m done writing We Will Hold On Forever, alternating every other month so I can get through first drafts of what I want to write faster. It might be too much for me but I’ll test to find out.

A couple days ago, my Invisalign session technically ended but I still have to wear the last tray until I get retainers made, which can only be started in May. I also have $600 left to pay for it but my mom was able to negotiate breaking it up between April and May.. It’s been over a year since I started and it’s unbelievable the end’s in sight. This method helped organize when and how much I ate, which I might keep around. I might also keep brushing 4 times a day, which’d definitely kept my teeth clean. Hopefully, the retainers won’t be as much of a drain on my wallet when they come up.

( Review and spoilers for Orion and the Dark )

That’s all for now. Ceasefire for Palestine and refund UNRWA. Cutoff military aid to Israel. Free hostages on all sides. Push for reparations for Palestinians. I’ll see you at the end of May.

I can’t believe I only have 4 to 6 chapters left for We Will Hold On Forever. I only finished the first draft for 42 (and 43?) a few days ago. I might need to give more attention to these chapters since they are the final ones but it’s good to know I’m nearing the end. I started posting these chapters in 2017 and thought about and plotted this story even earlier. I don’t know if I’ll finish the fic this year but I’ll be sure to keep going until it’s done. If I write anymore fanfics, they’ll probably be shorter since I’ll be prioritizing writing original fiction.

Had to deal with my father’s car breaking down again on the way back home from am orthodontist appointment. It was tough waiting, so I eventually put on a news program I watch every weekday. Fortunately, the tow truck appeared within 33 minutes of me starting the program but we didn’t know if or when it was coming, since notifications weren’t working. I hope Dad can find the source of the issue.

( Review and spoilers for Everything Everywhere All At Once )

Ceasefire for Gaza. Free the hostages. Prosecute Israel and Hamas for genocide and war crimes. See you at the end of March.

I accidentally stumbled upon a way to speed up my writing in some respects. I decided to read some paperwork in between doing rewrite notes for the latest We Will Hold On Forever chapter and I found that I was able to focus better with fewer distractions by doing this. Only having to text corrections for the paperwork to someone involved in it distracted me yesterday. I've been reading a book a bit lately in brief breaks from writing but now I'm going to expand that. From now on, I’ll read a page of nonfiction book after writing and reviewing every 2 paragraphs or 4 lines or a page of my stories. It doesn’t have to relate to my story but it helps motivate me. I don’t know if I’ll be less distracted from now on but it’s an encouraging development.

( Yes, I'm reviewing a Christmas movie over a month later, don't @ me! Also, a few spoilers )

That’s all for now. Free Palestine. Until next month, see you.

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Restarting writing, Tech Breakthrough(?), and Herons

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Unpleasant Election Outcomes and Batman

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