Overwhelmed

Two interesting news stories stand out from this morning's disastrous barrage of current events:

• Trump is considering passing along a $2,000 tariff dividend to potential voters: This is both good news & bad news. Good because it suggests that there will at least be an election; bad because Americans are just dumb enough to sell themselves cheap for two grand, which means Trump or his surrogate will be reelected.

• 28% of Americans report that they have had some sort of romantic relationship with an AI. This puts Spike Jonez right up there with Jules Verne 'cause Jonez predicted this in the ever-so-brilliant movie Her.

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Else? I spent yesterday plugging away at Remuneration & lambasting myself because I'm not a lean, green, statistics-analysis machine that can churn out 7,000 words a day instead of a mere 2,000.

I also have seven chapters of dense, illogical tax law mocking me.

Plus all those routine activities of daily life: brushing my teeth, washing my hair, placating the kiskas, cleaning the kiskas' litter box, exercising, cooking lentils, oatmeal, & salmon, eating lentils, oatmeal & salmon...

And, oh yeah—I'm writing a novel.

At least the All lentils, oatmeal, & salmon, all of the time! diet is cheaper than my previous grocery runs.

A few social things planned. That I won't enjoy 'cause I'm so freaked about the amount of work I have to accomplish.

Which I better get started on pronto.