July 20, 2025 (Sunday)

Drinking (Yes/No) No (176/25)

Paid work - not on Sunday, no.

Creative work - more work on the doors.

In the interim -  awful hot weather.  Great phone call, done entirely sober.

Overall - very glad to get a No, finally.  First one since June 17.

See you tomorrow. 

July 19, 2025 (Saturday)

Drinking (Yes/No) Yes (176/24)

Paid work - not on Saturday, no.

Creative work - work on the video walls.  Not much but better than nothing.

In the interim -  despite dire clicks from the UPS, haven't lost power for a couple of days.  Expecting that tomorrow.

Overall - Helpless, helpless, helpless.

See you tomorrow. 

July 18, 2025 (Friday)

 Drinking (Yes/No) Yes (175/24)

Paid work - very busy and long day.

Creative work - some door work.  

In the interim -  well, it's a Friday, a weekend eve.

Overall - no worse than yesterday

See you tomorrow. 

July 17, 2025 (Thursday)

Drinking (Yes/No) Yes (174/24)

Paid work - very busy

Creative work - work on the doors.  Like it so far.

In the interim -  almost had a NO.  But didn't.  Hand grenades, etc.

Overall - need to get some anti-booze drugs from the doc on Monday.  Apparently had NO power failures during the day.  Yay!

See you tomorrow. 

July 16, 2025 (Wednesday)

Drinking (Yes/No) Yes (173/24)

Paid work - busy day.

Creative work - some work on the large chamber.

In the interim -  more power failures.  More drinking.  Hail 2025.

Overall - On to Thursday, but I'm going to skip gas day.

See you tomorrow. 

July 15, 2025 (Tuesday)

Drinking (Yes/No) Yes (172/24)

Paid work - pretty busy day.  I like how I organize things, and shared knowledge with Tim, who was appreciative.

Creative work - some work on the walls, and the designs behind the screens.

In the interim - payday, so there's that.  And largely gone, but so what.  

Overall - more power outages.  The UPS helps a bit, but got drained during another one and flicked at the PC.  It still shudders now and then and the monitors go off.   Haven't lost any work yet but it's getting discouraging.  Along with everything else.

See you tomorrow. 

July 14, 2025 (Monday)

Drinking (Yes/No) Yes (171/24)

Paid work - very busy day.

Creative work - more work on the wall, and I like it.

In the interim - bought a cheap UPS to at least keep the PC and external going during the blackouts, and looks like my monitors might have been damaged by all the stuff.  Hope they fix this damn situation.

Overall - it's a Monday.  Damn it.

See you tomorrow. 

July 13, 2025 (Sunday)

Drinking (Yes/No) Yes (170/24)

Paid work - not on Sunday, so no.

Creative work - we'll see

In the interim - four power outages today.  

Overall - doing this early in case there's a fifth.

See you tomorrow. 

July 12, 2025 (Saturday)

Drinking (Yes/No) Yes (169/24)

Paid work - not on Saturday, so no.

Creative work - some work on the large room, interrupted by a power failure.

In the interim - I needed to do the laundry so why not, I did it.

Overall - hot, muggy day.  Still took the usual walk but it took a lot.  Sad about the Yes but there it is.

See you tomorrow. 

July 11, 2025 (Friday)

Drinking (Yes/No) Yes (168/24)

Paid work - very busy, very tiring, but got through it and, overall, a good day.

Creative work - working on more satellite walls.

In the interim - got home and of course the power was off.  The office said they'd be fixing all the electrics "sometime" in the future.  Pressing the breaker didn't work.  Prepared for a weekend with only the bare essentials before I remembered that there were breakers in a panel under the air-conditioning.  Reset the one that was off, and I was able to switch the breaker.  Power back on.  Now just waiting for it to go off again.  Save and save often.

Overall - and here comes the weekend.  At least I know more about power stuff.

See you tomorrow. 

July 10, 2025 (Thursday)

Drinking (Yes/No) Yes (167/24)

Paid work - pretty busy day.  

Creative work - working on the satellite interior

In the interim - gas very low, because almost no driving.  Might have to look into every two weeks as this goes on.  Power blips getting more annoying.  Wish I knew the cause.  Unplugged the other cheap lamp.  And complained to management.

Overall - here comes the weekend. 

See you tomorrow. 

July 9, 2025 (Wednesday)

Drinking (Yes/No) Yes (166/24)

Paid work - pretty busy day.  

Creative work - some animation stuff.

In the interim - Wednesday come and gone.

Overall - gas day tomorrow.  

See you tomorrow. 

July 8, 2025 (Tuesday)

Drinking (Yes/No) Yes (165/24)

Paid work - very busy and tiring day.

Creative work - some good animation, converting to video, trying to clean up space.

In the interim - cat doesn't seem to be eating much--avoids treats--but acts normally.  Perhaps eating bugs.

Overall - at least Tuesday's done.

See you tomorrow. 

July 7, 2025 (Monday)

Drinking (Yes/No) Yes (164/24)

Paid work - very busy day, with drama and shortcomings.  More tomorrow.

Creative work - good animation.  Pleased with the progress.

In the interim - watched most of "The Seduction of Mimi" first Wertmuller film to kind of bore me.  Got two packages and failed to realize there was a third--which I went and got.  Whew!

Overall - coulda been worse.  Always coulda been worse.

See you tomorrow. 

July 6, 2025 (Sunday)

Drinking (Yes/No) Yes (163/24)

Paid work - not on Sunday, no.  Expecting a lot on Monday.

Creative work - some good animation work.

In the interim - spent most of the time sleeping or resting.  Bought a new lamp yesterday--it seems stable.  Were the black outs due to a bad lamp?  Kinda hope so, but not trusting fate.  

Overall - another Sunday.  Oh boy.

See you tomorrow. 

July 5, 2025 (Saturday)

Drinking (Yes/No) Yes (162/24)

Paid work - not on Saturday, no.

Creative work - some good animation bits.  Nice.

In the interim - still lots of power outages.  Save often.

Overall - another Saturday, there we go.

See you tomorrow. 

July 4, 2025 (Friday)

Drinking (Yes/No) Yes (161/24)

Paid work - state holiday.  Hooray America.

Creative work - nothing.  Got the backup done.

In the interim - not sure what to do with these days off.

Overall - it's Saturday next.

See you tomorrow. 

July 3, 2025 (Thursday)

Drinking (Yes/No) Yes (160/24)

Paid work - lots of moving stuff around, and driving.  Otherwise slow.

Creative work - some animation work, and working on green stuff.

In the interim - gas day.  Also, backup time.  And, somehow, I missed a $22 expense.  

Overall - big weekend coming up.

See you tomorrow. 

July 2, 2025 (Wednesday)

Drinking (Yes/No) Yes (159/24)

Paid work - mostly pretty slow.  Some meetings, virtual suggestions, and so on.

Creative work - working on the first chamber room.  Some interesting stuff.

In the interim - not sure what is wrong with me but I am easily annoyed these days.

Overall - at least tomorrow is a kind of Friday.  And it's gas day.

See you tomorrow. 

July 1. 2025 (Tuesday)

Drinking (Yes/No) Yes (158/24)

Paid work - OK day.  Still tired from yesterday.

Creative work - some work on sliding doors, then animating them.

In the interim - hoped to get a NO, and there was a storm, but...

Overall - most of the work week gone, so OK.

See you tomorrow.