Welcome, I’m Mary Louisa Locke, the author of the USA Today best-selling Victorian San Francisco Mystery series and the Caelestis Science Fiction series. In this daily newsletter, I reflect on my life as an indie author trying to age gracefully, including my struggles to maintain a balanced life, what I listen to, read, and watch for entertainment, and occasional bits of information I’ve gleaned from doing the research for my novels.
Daily Diary, Day 1249:
Brief Check-in: What a long, busy day yesterday was, with lots of rain (just under an inch in our neighborhood, with the last coming as a 5-minute pounding rain at 4:45 this morning.) Below is photograph of morning clouds with a very faint rainbow. Next storm due Sunday evening.
Yesterday, the bath-room project managers came in the morning and were here for over an hour, remeasuring everything, update plans, lots of signatures. Next stage is we sign-off on the final drawings, the materials are ordered, and then they get us a start dates…which now sounds more like end of March or beginning of April.
After they went, I checked email, then it was time to make my salad, get ready for my noon meeting, and afterwards ate the salad quickly to get on the road to the clinic. My prescription wasn’t working, so recheck of prescription (with some modifications) and then meeting with the optical tech, who did some other modification on the nose piece to the new frames (since it was sitting too close to my eyes) This means the modified frames have been sent off to get the new lens put in…which will probably take 3-4 weeks, so keeping fingers crossed they work this time. This whole process took over 2 hours, so got home in time to fix dinner. When I drove to clinic, thick cloud cover, light drizzle, when I got out some blue sky and ginormous clouds. By the end of the day, with no exercise, no writing, I was still exhausted! Hoping for more exercise and writing today.
And now, for my recommendations!
If you are someone, such as myself, who has always loved Stephen Fry’s comedic wit, then you will be as delighted as I was to learn that he has now started a newsletter, called The Fry Corner.
He just posted his second piece today, but I am going to link to his first one, entitled 40 Years On. This one was particularly enjoyable because we got our first Mac computer about the same time as Fry, as I suspect was true for at least some of you, and the peice certainly made me smile.
I am also including my second recommendation because of the humor mixed with fun information. I’ve recommended George Dillard’s Looking Through the Past before, not just because of it being a newsletter that deals with history, but also because he writes well and has great illustrations for his topics. But this one, called Fancy Hats for Fancy People was particularly fun.
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Thanks for sharing the Stephen Fry link!