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Daily notes and timed freewrites but mostly my blog |
All comments are encouraged, I am interested in what others think and feel along the topics I choose to write about. Highlighted entries: [#732826] "In Memory" ![]() |
Tried something different--so far seems to have worked. Went to bed early and slept fine--9pm til about 3am didn't get up went back to sleep until alarm @ 5:30am-- Yesterday I actually felt somewhat human and my job performance showed it--packaged 25,000 rounds of ammo w/o breaking a sweat--Take That!-- ![]() Today won't be as productive--I will be training a couple of the DS newbies on the the job I've inherited on days--seems I've impressed the boss afterall. No condescending quips. Well, gotta go will be back after work--in about 12 hours--was supposed to have left 5 minutes ago--BLEH! Wishing everyone a good day added 11:03pm Overall had a good day today. Now, I 'get to' work tomorrow and have a good day tomorrow, too. ![]() I will see ya all then. |
Went to bed sometime around 11:30pm lastnight was awake at 2:53am...short story long--I ended up sleeping through two alarms and was 10 minutes late to work this morning...Sheesh. I'm riding the yoyo of life and it involves changing sleep schedules LOL Overall, today went well. When I logoff here I am to bed and will see if I succeed in sleeping through to 6am. One good thing about this first week is that the 10 and 1/2 hours I'm at work simply fly by. I managed to package 10,000 rounds more ammo than yesterday. But, yesterday I spent half the day sorting ammo on the belt. Today, I didn't work hard--I worked steady. Still felt like I was in slow motion, but I know I made an accounting of my time. It was cool and raining when I drove home. goodnight-- ![]() |
Well I managed to get more sleep than accomplished over the weekend...woke up about 25 minutes before my alarm was set to go off. I was pretty much on auto-pilot today and my second boss--the one who gets her decisions from the office boss--said something interesting on the way to clock out for the day. I was talking to a couple of the guys coming in on nights and said something about having a total of 10 hours sleep in four days and last night was 5 hours of it... She quips with, "Well, you should get some sleep tonight, you worked hard 'today'." I was so blown away by her remark I was speechless. (Not in a good way.) The two guys I was talking with know me fairly well and they quickly disappeared. Thank goodness she was out of the room too when I finally was able to find the use of my voice... I clocked out and sat down for a couple minutes until I'd cooled down. I haven't felt instant rage like that in a very long time. I know it is because I am so damn exhausted and sleep deprived--but she had no cause to--according to her body language and tone of voice--belittle my complaint regarding my lack of sleep and insinuate that today I actually did some work... One of the night shift fellows peeked in and asked if I was okay. I asked him what he thought of "her" comment about me working hard "today". His comment..."I know; she looks down on us too and she doesn't even have a clue what we do." I had to laugh and I told him I was fine "and just point me in the direction of my truck..." It is 4 and 1/2 hours later and I'm still wired. So I am here venting in the hopes of spending this needless anger energy so I can lay still long enough to GET SOME #@^ @#$%@ SLEEP ![]() ![]() I hope it works LOL--it has lightened my mood a bit. I wish everyone a goodnight and a good week...It was a beautiful spring day today and I did get to enjoy some of it. That is something.... |
Okay, I have pushed my zombiness to the limit. I managed to perform 5 reviews (four before midnight EDT) and 1 after. Two of the reviews reflected my inability to affectively proof read in my sleep deprived state. And that was with using the preview tool to proof my reviews before clicking them away! I will have to pay special attention tomorrow at work if I fail to sleep through the night tonight. I have to get up and get ready for work in a little over 7 hours from now. Wish me luck... ![]() ![]() |
Okay, time to try to sleep and get onto a day cycle-- Will log back in hopefully around 9am or so Sunday Happy Easter preparations to all and remember--No matter your religious belief: "What the World needs now is Love." added 5:24am EDT Well, here I am. about 6 hours earlier than I'd like. I went to bed; was under the covers and closing my eyes; at 1:40am wdc time (11:40pm Saturday my time). And at 2:35am I'm wide awake (4:35 wdct)--can't go back to sleep. I lay in bed for about a half hour before I give it up and get up. So here I am @ 5:23am wdct telling you all about it. added 8:07am EDT Okay I am ready to try again--but I've set my alarm for 10am (12pm EDT)--Tonight I need to get a full nights sleep, because I will have to get up and get ready for work this time tomorrow. added 12:19pm EDT Yay? I'm up? I'm a bit of a zombie at the moment, but yes, I am up and dressed. And I'm eating and having coffee--my first coffee in three days! added 3:16pm EDT Activities for today: ![]()
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Okay, I am getting ready for sleep. My effort to get into a daytime schedule--btw--I am getting to bed 6 to 8 hours earlier than normal. I am tired because I basically forced myself to get up after only 4 hours sleep. I have taken a short nap interrupted by an alarm after 2 hours. I feel as if I can sleep--the question is--for how long before I'm wide awake. Hopefully, Saturday I can get up sometime around 8-9am and stay up until 10pm then go to bed and get up Easter Sunday sometime around 6 or 7am. Then if I go to bed around 9pm, I hope to be awake to get ready for my first day of dayshift on Monday. ![]() ![]() ![]() added at 7:05am Well I am awake and up. Not sure what to think about it either. I am tired but can't go back to sleep. Not used to sleeping when it is dark outside and I don't dare go back to bed until tonight. So this promises to be one hell of a long day. I only hope I can mentally function and accomplish something along the lines of writing this weekend--My job doesn't pay me enough to debilitate my leisure time like this ![]() ![]() |
I am usually quite excited this time of the week. I come home from work and am looking forward to a three day weekend. However, this morning I find I am not very excited. Today at work, I was informed that I will be scheduled to work day shift for a couple months until the crew strength increases enough to support a day and a night shift. Mind you, I understand most people would be quite happy to work days--however, I haven't worked or lived a dayshift schedule for over five years. I am basically 8-12 hours behind everyone on my siderial cycle. And I only have 2 days to get into a dayshift waking/sleep cycle--oh boy. I start dayshift Monday--7am to 5:30pm. Hell, I'm going to work when I normally go to bed!!! Talk about potential jet lag. Okay, that is the sleep situation--the other thing I'm not looking forward to is all the micro-management that exists on days. I'm used to being given an assignment and then left on my own to get it done. Day shift doesn't quite work that way. There are at least three bosses for the packaging department--which is where I work--and they have to earn their pay by being bosses. Oh joy! But first things first and that is the sleep deprivation--that is what I need to correct before it gets totally out of hand. ![]() ![]() |
To bed, to sleep, to get up later this afternoon and go to work, to come home before dawn Friday and then enjoy 3 days (nights) of play time. see ya all then. ![]() ![]() |
My after work show up--I am in the process of prepping my crockpot for the rest of the week (Wednesday and Thursday) lunches. And cleaning up mail and other routines so I don't fall so far behind by Friday morning that I spend most of my first day catching up. I've been pretty good at keeping this routine for over two months now. |
A very pleasant day overall. Did some work offline on my 2001 story and then some reviews. I sort of performed a mini-port raid on MichelleWriteMeow ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (three reviews although I may only get credit for 1 as they all deal with the same item.) But that isn't the point is it? this is the point: ![]() ![]() added at 6:44am Well, phooey! the first review's ML didn't work because I forgot to remove the # in the {entry:#806827}supposed to be "Invalid Entry" ![]() |
added at 11:44pm I still have 6 Dark Dreamscapes Poetry Contest entrants to review. So far I entry poem I chose not to review but rather went to the author's Portfolio and reviewed one of his other Poems--So although I've finished 14 member reviews, I've really only reviewed 13 Dark Dreamscapes Poetry Contest entries. April 13, 2014 at 1:58am + 2,000 points from The Gift System. These 2,000 GPs are from "Daily Review Rewards". You gave 13 qualifying reviews on 04/12/14. Four Times GPs given through March 31st, 2014! Hmmm, this is April, right? I hope I don't lose 1,500 gift points for yesterday's effort just because someone forgot to roll over the date for bonus gps. I had to look up how the gp system worked. 1-2 reviews will be awarded 25 gps (not 50 for 2 reviews--25 total): however, with the bonus awards at 4 times, 2 reviews per day is awared 100 gps. The next jump is 3-4 reviews are awarded 75 gps so 4 reviews are awarded 75gps or with x4 bonus=300gps Then 5-9 reviews receive 150 gps (9 reviews receive 150gps or with x4 bonus=600gps) The last jump rate is 10 reviews or more receive the incentive of 500 gps. I performed 13 reviews April 12th and because there is an on running 4x bonus going on I received 500x4=2,000 gps. Personally, I don't mind that after 10 reviews there isn't another tier level of gps. 500gps for 50 reviews in a day (that would be one reviewing machine I tell you!) would still be rewarding. Like I said in yesterday's entry, I learn more about the craft with every review I perform because I am exposed to a full run of what is in the writing world both good and awful. Self-editing is my eventual goal. the more I learn of what doesn't work for others the more I will be able to see what won't work for my writing. |
I just finished 8 of 22 reviews for the "Invalid Item" ![]() ![]() now onto other projects... added at 8:01pm My earlier reviewing turned out to be rather profitable--I've received an extra 2,126 gift points for 8 reviews given--the majority of the reviews were to writer's whom I've not reviewed before. 200 gps each given at this time. (1400 gps)(100 gps for a qualifying review) 375 gps were given by a some writers as a gift for my reviewing their work. And one was an auto reward of 251 gps. At the end of the day, I will receive another 800 or so gps for having done 8 qualifying reviews (or more if I do more reviews before midnight WDC Time). Not only am I thankful of the gift point boost, but for every review I give, I increase my own critical eye for when I edit my own writing. I concentrated on how the poem made me feel (I believe poetry should incite emotion otherwise, what's the use?). How smoothly the poem reads. Is there a natural rhythm, meter, flow--however you wish to call it. And how I interpret what is being said in the poem. Some examples of today's reviewing--all can be found on the Public review page--are: Review of "Death" ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Funny thing--I got to looking at my past reviews and then noticed in the header that I had 65 reviews by other authors that I hadn't responded to. ![]() ![]() ![]() Oh, did I respond to pallasathene's review even though she is no longer present on Writing.Com? Yes, I did. Call it walking up to a marker with a name on it and telling the person whom the marker represents, "Thank-you for taking the time to comment on something I'd written, and thus helping me to improve both my written item and my grasp of the craft of writing." Afterall, I'm the writer I am today, only because of all the help I've recieved from other writers yesterday. Oh, you get to the reviews page by clicking on the blue number in the upper left corner of your page marked reviews: ### found under the portfolio numbers. |
Dawn is at hand--still dark outside--but the birds are singing and my eye lids are getting heavier and heavier---Will be back later. added at 6:10pm I'm all caught up with my daily documentations...now to catch up with bills ![]() added at 11:04pm AAAAAHHHH. Okay pending bills mailed. Budget envelopes stuffed. First quarter budget reconciled with an income/expense deficit I'd really prefer not to discuss. Basically, my grocery budget has been slashed--once again--to meet the other expenses that cannot be slashed but rather keep going up. Things like gas for the vehicle to get me to work so I can pay for gas that keeps going up. ![]() Now a big deep cleansing breath--out with the bad--in with the good--again... I'm ready to write--it's the weekend and time to expand beyond reality ![]() |
Temps were back to normal for this time of year--55 degrees F for the high and 34 degrees for the low. Yesterday was a warm spring teaser. |
Wow. 70 degrees F today and 50 degrees F on the way home at 4am. And last week it was 32 degrees F on my wayhome in the a m. |
Just checked in to keep up with mail and projects ![]() |
wrote a discussion about a story I had written in 2001 and am endeavoring to write/edit into a second draft. did a review and literally did some house cleaning. at 3:14pm I entered a poem into the Dark Dreamscapes Poetry Contest last weekend and today I'm ** Image ID #1985466 Unavailable ** |
Sweet. Dialogue regarding book revision established. Had a good day at home and now will see what I can see on WdC. |