Not posting drunk today

I started a post on Tuesday, and then I realized that I was too drunk to write a coherent post. Tuesday nights I usually go to The Dublin Pub here in Dayton, for open mic night, which is really more like an open session. If for some reason you didn't know, I play Native American flutes, but I use them to play all kinds of music. Primarily Irish music when I'm at The Dublin Pub, but also pop, rock and a variety of other styles including Bluegrass occasionally at a session at The Trolley Stop (Also in Dayton). What I was trying to say was that I broke (cracked a carpal bone) and badly sprained my wrist in the middle of February, and have been fighting injury induced tendonitis since then. So EVERYTHING in the world has been difficult to do with one hand primarily out of commission. It's getting better, but very very slowly. Most of my pain now is the result of the tendonitis, but also the sprain is still slow to heal. Having a cracked bone on top of that, I'm sure didn't help with the healing process.

Ok, so anyway, I finished a giant crochet project, which probably didn't help me heal, and several smaller ones, so as of Tuesday, all my crochet commissions are complete. (Ooops, except for I accepted another one on Wednesday, but I did tell her I didn't intend to start on it for at least two weeks in order to give my wrist a break.) So now I've finally got everything caught up, and can spend more time writing. I've been working towards limiting my facebook time to almost exclusively phone facebooking, and making a point to close the tab if I open one to catch up after work or something as soon as I have checked all notifications. I removed 90% of my friends from my feed either because all they ever did was repost the same BS, or else they were people from high school and college that I never actually interact with etc etc etc. After I close the facebook tab, I have been working on Chasing the Trail chapter 15, which has been almost finished for several weeks.

Yesterday, I went over to AO3, and started moving some of my previous work (well copying. I'll leave it there too) from FFN. I'm increasingly disgusted with their juvenile approach to posting, and wondering what the point is of having a Mature rating if it can't contain mature content. It's like they think their basic readership is mostly kindergarteners. I'm also increasingly annoyed at the fact that I can't use a lot of characters that I would normally use for notes and things like that. In fact, I seem to recall that you're not supposed to even be allowed to post notes, but I do anyway if I have something to say. Not being allowed to include any kinds of links is ridiculous as well. I should be able to link to my website, or other places my writing is posted. It demonstrates to me that they are not willing to do the work to code their system properly to keep inappropriate links out of their text, or to protect their system from malicious code. Anyway I've continued to promise people there that I would post Chapter 15, but to be honest, I'll probably write a chapter that will lead people to AO3 for the rest of it when it reaches a point where I have to start worrying about what words I'm using, or what my characters are doing that might offend the parent of a 12 year old who lied about his age and said he was a grown up.

I'm still feeling like I need to bitch about the terrible TERRIBLE livejournal app. The El Jay app is a little better, but not much. I'd love it if Semagic had a phone app, but it doesn't. That makes me sad, but by switching to using Facebook primarily from my phone, it means I am keeping up better with Livejournal now. I may not always comment, or reply to a reply, but I am reading now, which for quite a while, I was backtracking 100 or more posts and then zipping through them. Now I'm checking them every day or at least every other day unless something makes me supremely busy. I wish there was some kind of acknowledgment button that I could click to at least let people know that "Yes I read what you had to say, and get it, but don't have anything to add to the conversation.

See you soon. Going to watch The Color Purple with marynachaotica and then work on CTT if I have time.