Monthly Archives: April 2020

Books Read in April 2020

Fiction

The Outfit – Richard Stark
The Hunter – Richard Stark
The Mourner – Richard Stark
The Score – Richard Stark
The Green Eagle Score – Richard Stark
The Handle – Richard Stark
The Seventh – Richard Stark

Short Stories

The Heart and Other Viscera – Felix J. Palma

Non-Fiction

My New Orleans: Ballads to the Big Easy from Her Sons, Daughters, and Lovers – ed. Rosemary James

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Books to Read April 2020

Evicted – Matthew Desmond

A Queen in Hiding – Sarah Kozloff

Daughter from the Dark – Marina & Sergey Dyachenko

The End of the Ocean – Maja Lunde

The Will and the Wilds – Charlie N. Holmberg

The Deep & Dark Blue – Niki Smith

Otherlife – Jason Segel & Kirsten Miller

A Blight of Blackwings – Kevin Hearne

Devolution – Max Brooks

Creatures of Charm and Hunger – Molly Tanzer

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4-29-20 Continuing at Home

EBay sales: ornament, action figure,

Number of eBay listings: 514

Craft projects completed: created the Quarantine Quill award shadow-box (see the comment-fic contest)

Eating from the pantry adventure:

Lunch: hotdogs, corn, pickles

Dinner: Farfalle with sauce and green beans

To do list items completed:

  • Security system installed and tested

It’s been an interesting ride this April, no mistake. Not sure where we’re headed and I don’t miss the office. I do need to work on my budget still and figure out how to get into a good rhythm for downsizing. Working on my Will has definitely made me evaluate what if mine is worth passing down and what I want just for myself and will likely release / not make provisions for.

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4-27-20 Hanging in there

EBay sales: meditation beads, piano baby,

Number of eBay listings:

Craft projects completed:

Eating from the pantry adventure:

To do list items completed:

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Quarantine Quill Comment-Fic Contest

Hello, mes amies!

It is time to do something fun. We’re setting up a writing competition.

Rules:

Due by May 4th

To be posted in the comment section of this message

No more than 1500 words

Based on this picture:

Photo Credit: Wojciech Marciniak

 

 

 

 

 

Winner will receive the Quarantine Quill May 2020 Award. *winks* Sent to your snail mail address.

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4-26-20 Still at Home

EBay sales: 2 prints

Number of eBay listings: 492

Craft projects completed: 0

Eating from the pantry adventure:

To do list items completed:

  • Started a short story for Patreon that has nothing to do with quarantine.
  • Closed EBay account associated with Irongatebakery
  • dusted the top of one of the bookshelves and changed the display.

Turns out that those cloth masks for wearing in public work pretty well for keeping the dust out of your nose when you’re dusting. 🙂 I mean, it’s not as though I am not used to having to wear a mask while dusting. The cloth ones are more comfortable too.

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Sunday Night Music: Minor My Heart Will Go On

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April 26, 2020 · 9:05 pm

4-25-20 ?? Days at Home

EBay sales: print, robofish, rubber stamp

Number of eBay listings: 492

Craft projects completed:

To do list items completed:

  • Signed up for Cake account to share medical/ end of life documentation
  • Helped review parents’ taxes before submission
  • Drafted Living Will
  • Played D&D

The yellow pepper seedlings are growing rapidly. They are so much heartier than expected. I am very pleased.

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4-23-20 Back to Stay at Home

EBay sales: book, Avon soap set, oracle cards,

Number of eBay listings: 484

Craft projects completed: 0

Eating from the pantry adventure: not today.

To do list items completed:

  • Put away listed eBay items in the basement shelves

New seedlings sprouts! Yellow peppers.

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4-21-20 At work Day 2

Been called in for a special project. Only 6 people in the office. Probably back to Stay at Home on Thursday.

EBay sales: ornament, stamp, RC chopper, Shirley Temple bowl, set of small books, parrot napkin rings

Number of eBay listings: 477

Completed craft projects: 0, but I found some embroidered pillowcases I was working on.

Eating from the pantry adventure: Frozen dinner that turns out expired in 2018. It was edible, but like an MRE from the 80s.

New strawberry seedlings have sprouted!! I have put a water schedule on the wall, so I have hope.

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