My grandmother and grandfather seem to be recovering fairly well from their injuries. In addition, they got a new stove and refrigerator to replace the very old and troubled versions of same they've been using.
Robert III had been having problems, and then he refused to boot. I tried to fix him to no avail (in fact, I think I broke him worse in doing so). I bought a replacement and swapped in the old hard drive, which fortunately wasn't the defective part, and now I have a lot of spare parts should anything else break, but this was obviously very expensive, and I'm going to have to start tightening up a lot very soon, especially if I don't find a job that pays better than DMV.
Having finished my 4-week abstinence from masturbation and nearly finished the one from alcohol, I've been thinking about making giving something up for 4 weeks a longer-term project. I've come up with four ideas so far: soda, speeding, discretionary spending, and websurfing. Websurfing would probably be the most difficult, perhaps so difficult as to be impossible.
Somehow in my websurfing adventures (perhaps while looking for fiction writer's guides) I stumbled across NaNoWriMo, short for National Novel Writing Month. I realized that if I gave up websurfing during that month, the huge amount of free time I'd be left with would make it much easier to devote enough time to a novel. In addition, I might finally be able to let go of caring about whether my story is terribly coherent or valuable and just write it. After all, it would be better for my first novel to be done, even with serious defects (which then might be correctable) than a nonexistent Platonic ideal.
Over the weekend, once again, there was nothing to do. Once again, I visited Charlie, and played tons of Final Fantasy X. Although it seems that there's no reason I shouldn't be equally able to play at home, somehow being at Charlie's allows me to let go of incessantly checking AIM or LiveJournal or my email and just play. I'll have to develop this into a full-fledged theory of how different physical locations affect my thought processes at some point, because I've noticed this in several cases—even though it seems like anywhere with internet access ought to be more or less equivalent, it really isn't. (And places without internet access can be interesting too; I normally find nature stultifyingly boring, but with someone like Ed to talk to it can be a great backdrop.)
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