August 2022 in Review

[rowyn]

Health/Fitness

I did about as well on exercise in August as in July, which is honestly amazing given how terrible August was for exercise. Like, by the time I got up my July-in-review post, it was already impossible to hit the “aerobic exercise 20 times this month” stretch goal. I had to exercise and/or stretch for every remaining day in the month just to make the “exercise or stretch 20 times” goal.

Early August included Lut and I spending two separate days at the ER, two weeks apart. Lut is back on oxygen and has been Very Conscientious about using it after the second ER trip. The respiratory therapist on the second ER trip got us an adapter to use oxygen with his bipap. I have been asking about this since the first time he was on oxygen over a year ago. Apparently I finally asked the right person. Yay!

Lut has also been doing pretty well since the second ER trip. This may or may not be a result of the oxygen concentrator but I am in no rush to get him off of it.

Writing

I did not start writing a new book in August and I'd already finished the first draft of Alien Peacelords. So weird.

The Business of Writing

I’ve been working on Demon’s Alliance. In lieu of word count or % complete, I’ve been tracking time worked on it, and got up to 17.5 hours. This is way over my “at least 5 hours” goal. It was not quite enough time to finish the third draft. Third draft was, however, pretty close to done (and is complete as of this post).

Art

I was thinking “I didn’t do much art this month”, which turns out to be not remotely true. I did a lot of art in the first three weeks. Then on the 20th I started a picture, got a third of the way through with it after 4.5 hours, and was so dispirited that I hadn’t wanted to either finish it or start a new one. I did do a bunch of 5-minute sketches after that in August, but that’s all.

Still, I did spend about 25 hours on art in August, which is pretty good. Seven of the paintings I finished fit the “more than just copying the reference photo” stretch goal. Some of them I even like! I should do another art post. Here’s Twitter links for my two faves: Rescue Dragons and Spaceship Whispers Rain

Social

Got out to visit my local friends on most Thursdays in August! They were out of town for one but I think we made all the others.

Gaming

Lut, Terry and I tried a new game, Jumpdrive. It’s similar to Race for the Galaxy. I liked it well enough but Lut found it mystifying, so I don’t know if the three of us will be playing it again. Maybe just Terry and I, though.

August Scorecard

Goals:

• Spend 5 hours on final revisions for Demon's Alliance : done!
• Exercise 13 times (aerobic), and at least 7 more times that can be just stretching for five minutes: done! Just barely!
• Look at goal list & schedule occasionally: done!
• Make entries in bullet journal for at least 20 day: done!

Stretch Goals:

• Consumption tracking: done, albeit in mediocre fashion
• Maintain bullet journal for entire month: done!
• Practice art (bonus stretch goal: total of 15 hours of practice): aw yeah baby
• Complete a painting that isn’t just a copy of a single CC 0 reference: SEVEN of them dang
• Learn a new game: actually did this!

September Goals

• Finish Demon’s Alliance third draft, send new material to first readers for review
• Exercise 13 times (aerobic), and at least 7 more times that can be just stretching for five minutes.
• Look at goal list & schedule occasionally
• Make entries in bullet journal for at least 20 days.
• Work on notes/outline for a new book

Stretch Goals:

• Consumption tracking
• Maintain bullet journal for entire month
• Practice art (bonus stretch goal: total of 15 hours of practice)
• Exercise 20+ times
• Complete a painting that isn’t just a copy of a single CC 0 reference
• Post four blog entries, apart from my usual month-in-review.
• Learn a new game
• Finish reading a book I haven’t read before
• Refine editing list for A Game to You.
• Work on edits for A Game to You.
• Work on cover art for Angel’s Grace
• Create final editing list for Angel's Grace
• Get some use out of Color and Light by James Gurney

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Yay for Lut-doing-better! *purrs for goals getting done*

[rowyn]

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