March 2020 in Review
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rowynHealth/Fitness
Somehow, the March epoch has finally drawn to an end. What the heck, March. Why.
I am generally healthy, which is more than can be said for too many Americans at this point. (Seriously, March. You were terrible and you should be ashamed of yourself.)
Exercise was up and calorie consumption was down in March. I have not reached January and December's lofty heights for exercise, but I've been going out every day to walk. I've been trying to hit enough pokestops to send gifts to everyone on my friends list who is eligible for a gift. This is more challenging now that I'm walking around my neighborhood, which has few pokestops and even fewer people, instead of the Plaza, which has lots of pokestops and even more people. Though I expect at this point the Plaza is pretty deserted, to be fair. Still, I haven't been driving except for work, food, and medical care since KC shut down on March 24. Even in the week before that, I'd only been to the Plaza once, from 7AM to 10AM on a cold, rainy Sunday (when it was also deserted).
I've been eating less because a lot of my "eating when not hungry" comes from boredom eating at work and eating at restaurants. Also, pretty sure my appetite was depressed during my staycation. Anyway, working from home does not provoke nearly the "I am bored, let's have a snack to pass the time" response that being at the bank does. I find this amusing given how often articles on working from home cite the easy availability of the refrigerator as a drawback.
Anyway, my weight actually dropped in March, to 168. I am now down 16 pounds since I started losing weight in January 2019. So I'm on track with my "1 pound per month" goal.
Writing
Still writing a little bit a month on The Lord, His Monster, and Their Lady. About 4000 words this month. It's up to 61,700.
The Business of Writing
I released a novelette! The Mortal Prince and the Moon Etherium is now available FREE if you subscribe to my newsletter, or you can buy it in stores for $2.99.
I did the cover layout for Mortal Prince in March.
I also finished the penultimate proofread of The Twilight Etherium and finalized the cover image, so Alinsa has that book now for layout.
Art/Other
I've been working on the cover art for Spark of Desire. It's mostly done at this point, but gonna fiddle with the background some more, and the text layout is a placeholder.
Gaming
I got tired of Civ V halfway through March, shortly after winning a game with every leader in the original game.
I've been doing the Pokemon GO Battle League instead. It is not very satisfying but eh.
Socializing
ha ha ha no.
I didn't go to visit my parents in March, either.
Goal Scorecard
Help Lut: Did this! Although I fell down on getting one of his prescriptions renewed in a timely fashion. It's not one of the important ones, though, and hopefully the pharmacy & doctor will get it taken care of soon.
Finish final proofread TTE: All done!
Work on final edits for Spark and/or write more of The Lord, His Monster, and Their Lady: Technical completion remains best completion
Do something art-related every week: Managed this by working on book covers.
Goals
Help Lut
Maintain minimum functions
Stretch goals:
Do some art-like thing every week
Do some writing. Like three sentences a day. You can make this up by writing six sentences on some days as necessary.
That seems like more than enough, under the circumstances. There's a 4thewords event for CampNano and I kind of want to participate but I don't know about actually writing any significant amounts of literally anything. Even a blog post feels like A Lot these days.
Somehow, the March epoch has finally drawn to an end. What the heck, March. Why.
I am generally healthy, which is more than can be said for too many Americans at this point. (Seriously, March. You were terrible and you should be ashamed of yourself.)
Exercise was up and calorie consumption was down in March. I have not reached January and December's lofty heights for exercise, but I've been going out every day to walk. I've been trying to hit enough pokestops to send gifts to everyone on my friends list who is eligible for a gift. This is more challenging now that I'm walking around my neighborhood, which has few pokestops and even fewer people, instead of the Plaza, which has lots of pokestops and even more people. Though I expect at this point the Plaza is pretty deserted, to be fair. Still, I haven't been driving except for work, food, and medical care since KC shut down on March 24. Even in the week before that, I'd only been to the Plaza once, from 7AM to 10AM on a cold, rainy Sunday (when it was also deserted).
I've been eating less because a lot of my "eating when not hungry" comes from boredom eating at work and eating at restaurants. Also, pretty sure my appetite was depressed during my staycation. Anyway, working from home does not provoke nearly the "I am bored, let's have a snack to pass the time" response that being at the bank does. I find this amusing given how often articles on working from home cite the easy availability of the refrigerator as a drawback.
Anyway, my weight actually dropped in March, to 168. I am now down 16 pounds since I started losing weight in January 2019. So I'm on track with my "1 pound per month" goal.
Writing
Still writing a little bit a month on The Lord, His Monster, and Their Lady. About 4000 words this month. It's up to 61,700.
The Business of Writing
I released a novelette! The Mortal Prince and the Moon Etherium is now available FREE if you subscribe to my newsletter, or you can buy it in stores for $2.99.
I did the cover layout for Mortal Prince in March.
I also finished the penultimate proofread of The Twilight Etherium and finalized the cover image, so Alinsa has that book now for layout.
Art/Other
I've been working on the cover art for Spark of Desire. It's mostly done at this point, but gonna fiddle with the background some more, and the text layout is a placeholder.
Gaming
I got tired of Civ V halfway through March, shortly after winning a game with every leader in the original game.
I've been doing the Pokemon GO Battle League instead. It is not very satisfying but eh.
Socializing
ha ha ha no.
I didn't go to visit my parents in March, either.
Goal Scorecard
Help Lut: Did this! Although I fell down on getting one of his prescriptions renewed in a timely fashion. It's not one of the important ones, though, and hopefully the pharmacy & doctor will get it taken care of soon.
Finish final proofread TTE: All done!
Work on final edits for Spark and/or write more of The Lord, His Monster, and Their Lady: Technical completion remains best completion
Do something art-related every week: Managed this by working on book covers.
Goals
Help Lut
Maintain minimum functions
Stretch goals:
Do some art-like thing every week
Do some writing. Like three sentences a day. You can make this up by writing six sentences on some days as necessary.
That seems like more than enough, under the circumstances. There's a 4thewords event for CampNano and I kind of want to participate but I don't know about actually writing any significant amounts of literally anything. Even a blog post feels like A Lot these days.
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Date: 2020-04-03 01:10 am (UTC)Rowyn, that cover is... *fans self intensely* Wow. Like, wow. Hawt.
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Date: 2020-04-03 04:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-04-03 03:49 am (UTC)...OH, A CENTAUR! COOL!
(Suggest lowering the white-tint part just a hair, if you keep it, so the torso-connection doesn't try to look like a Weird Human Thigh on first glance.)
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Date: 2020-04-03 04:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-04-04 02:47 am (UTC)It's really really cool.
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Date: 2020-04-03 06:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-04-07 01:38 pm (UTC)I do like working from home, myself.