Random Ramblings CCLXIII · 11:50pm May 19th, 2018
IN WHICH EVERYTHING BREAKS
This has been a week, I tell ya. Here's more stuff from Japan to break your brain.
This is the first MV from Ladybaby with its new lineup. Rie finally has another screamer (Emiri), and two girls to replace Rei. I like. Anyway…
Thanks to issues with my home and the power company being power-trippy, the rewiring of my home still isn't completed (it should have been on Friday). Fortunately for me, I'm paying for the job, not by the hour, so I'm in the position of caring more that the job gets done correctly rather than quickly. The man in charge of the project and I see eye-to-eye on this. Even if it makes my mother upset, for she abhors chaos, I've made my decision.
Meanwhile, the power cutting off caused my deep-freeze to go absolutely haywire and stop working correctly, so that's going to have to be fixed too. Fortunately we were able to save most of the meat, as my main (small) freezer still works and was mostly empty. I've not had a problem with that freezer in the nearly dozen years since we bought it, and I'd been expecting something to happen. Unfortunately it's the weekend, so all the appliance repair places are closed until Monday. I've left a voice message with one place and emailed another.
Adulting sucks.
Being praised for adulting, which my mother has been doing a lot of lately, sucks even more. I've always hated being praised (except for my writing; please continue to stroke what little ego I have 
). It feels like she's been treating me with kid-gloves ever since she realized my various mental disorders are deep-set and can't be cured -- merely mitigated with medication and therapy.
On Thursday, as my power was completely shut off for most of the day, I took a nice long walk around part of the lake, jabbering to myself like an idiot, as I will, and discovered one thing The Rejected was missing. I wrote down my ideas shortly after I got home and have started rewriting the beginning of its third chapter. I'm very happy with the changes, as it does more world-building and ties into a Sunset story that I probably won't be able to get to for a long time, but laying foundation is always important.
Due to having to do more adulting on the front-end of next week, I won't be able to send anything out to a prereader until Wednesday at the earliest.
In the meantime, for I just realized I haven't eaten all day, I sleep again.
Peace out.
Adulting does suck.
Also your writing is always fantastic and you have a lot of insight to certain things.
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Yes, more! More!
Seriously though, I appreciate that you think so. And so do others apparently. As for insight, well, life experience will do that to a fellow. Also, I'm of the belief that we're always learning and should always learn; we can't stay stuck or secure. I actually have Sunset mention this in the upcoming story -- "The more one knows, the more one realizes one doesn't know." -- in other words, part of what we now call the Dunning-Kruger Effect (though it's been a thing for thousands of years).
I know more now than I did a year ago. Unless I get early-onset dementia or hit by a bus, I'll know more in a year than I do now.