BitterSuites

I do these to be accountable to someone, even if it’s just the net. Let’s see if I did anything on this list. I know I was busy…

• Complete Short Stories:
  • TTOBT
  • WOW
  • CN
  • ZJ
  • GG
• Complete Novels:
  • K&N
  • TBM
  • TCC
  • ADM
  • PR
• Sell 60 items this year (5/month) <– Sold a pair of shoes, 3 sewing patterns, doll, 2 books, 1 Precious Moments Figurine, 1 DS cartridge, and a set of magnets. Total count = 32
• Post 12 Pc of Artwork on Etsy
• Finish stuffed cupcake <– More than a quarter of the base now finished
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• Blog 2X a week on Bittersuites <– I managed once a week… Changing this goal. I am going to try for blogging every f’ing day and see if I can force myself to keep on a schedule. Even if that means the occasional post is “still alive.” 
• Write 12 flash stories on Wedschild’s Wanderings <–I am so behind.

• Podcast flash stories
• Create audiobook for CBE
• Edit B.P. art book 
• Edit C.J. short story
• Update Patreon
• Create IGB Videos
• Quarterly newsletters for IGB&GFP  <– Hired a VA – to be known here as C – she’s making templates for me.
• Exercise 3X a week : T, TH, S

Pie in the Sky Goals

• Start a hyper-local paper for BG. — Go door to door gathering info 
• Develop an AI assistant
• Start a gentlewoman’s club — like an old-fashioned men’s club. A dining room, a bar, reading/lounge rooms, library, gaming room, media room, rentable area for weddings and like, rooms that members can sleep in for the night. Yearly membership, plus food and such. 

Actual Bucket Goals

• Adapt forensic sniffer as a blood sugar detector
• Sail on a clipper ship
• Visit Paris (Esp. Disney Paris)
• Visit London and take the Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper tours
• Go back to Germany and visit all the places I missed and what was East Germany
• Develop a method for cleaning up space junk. Possibly using electromagnets. 

Um, what? That’s sort of intriguing melodically….

There was no rain today, but it was colder in the morning than the weekend led me to expect. My denim jacket is curled up like a cat in my car because it is no longer necessary.

When I walk out of my relatively productive night tonight, I might actually need it again and it will be toasty as though it just came out of the dryer.

My car needs its AC fixed, but I need to make sure I don’t schedule that for this weekend because I’m helping  a friend move. At the same time, though, I need to make sure it’s fixed before the 25th because I’ve a long drive down to Richmond to deal with.

Somehow my life keeps getting busier, even though I seem to actually have more time to do random things like read books.

I’ve forgotten where I used to surf for fun on the net. I remember I used to spend hours just popping from place to place and consuming vast amounts of pictures and data and stories and personal connections. I spent entire days looking at this and that and following web-rings. (remember those?) Now, I could fall into a pinterest hole, or bop around YouTube trying to catch up on my subscriptions. Or I could do something productive and comment on people’s blogs. I could check out my feedly list of articles and write something worthwhile.

Or I can take a moment to close the browser and be productive once more by editing the project I’m supposed to have completed months ago.

Then again, the conversation around me just turned to the idea of a road connecting Russia and Alaska where you could then drive from New York to London. This is both awesome and terrifying as an idea. We’ve decided that our truck would end up looking like something out of Mad Max.

… instead of becoming a vigilante with serious problems.

1. Rebuild the public transport infrastructure his father designed. (Giving people something to look at with pride.)
2. Make sure that all police officers had bullet-proof vests. (So, you know, they don’t get killed by all the crooks in Gotham.)
3. Develop self-defense courses for at-risk populations. (Maybe prevent a few crimes. I mean, if Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn can teach girls self-defense to protect them from bullies and rapists, why can’t Batman?)
4. Ensure appropriate hazardous waste disposal facilities were available. (This might prevent the development of more super-villains.)
5. Fund a reintegration program for ex-cons. (Reduce the number of henches who can only find jobs as henches.)
6. Fund an orphan’s home. (Instead of adopting young boys and teaching them to be vigilantes.)
7. Fund the development of green spaces. (Increase the community spirit of Gotham.)
8. Fund the development of greener energy. (Reduce the amount of pollution in the city, possibly heading off the more, ahem, violent eco-warriors.)
9. Develop a reliable internship program for the children of Gotham. (Maybe guide them away from careers in crime and henching.)
10. Create more businesses to hire more people — maybe some of those ex-cons from #5. (Duh. More business, more prosperity in the city, more opportunities for all people to earn a living. Reduce the number of frustrated people who feed the never-ending hench supply.)