Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

I always enjoyed working with our fans on the Forums and through Letters. I was on Email for a month, too. Looks like someone else remembers those days fondly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0r_3BL_FnA

::gets ready for bed::
::EMail chirp on phone::

"Your Dental Bill is here! You owe us $400."

::Spend the next two hours chasing down why I'm showing I have dental insurance coverage on one website, but not the other::

I always have trouble going to sleep when there's Things To Be Done, but worse sleep when there's nothing I can do until I wake up.

I've always had problems with neck and shoulder pain (that "crick in my neck"). I'm on Day Three of it, so it's time to break out the personal massager....

This might have been a Central Pennsylvania exclusive, but anyone remember a song that had a really long guitar solo in the middle that was the entire theme to The Simpsons? I'd love to hear it again, but I can't seem to find it or even any info about it.

Decided to catch the new Night Court cause I loved the old one and, Holy Cow, Melissa Rauch is TINY.

I was on grey market hormones for nearly twenty years, and this was BEFORE states decided to throw us under the bus for votes. It's not easy, but it WAS necessary.

https://apnews.com/article/transgender-health-missouri-hormone-stockpile-4376cac68eecd22df9d3ad86825c18d3

I knew he did the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, one of my fave songs, but I wasn't aware how many other songs her did that are among my faves....

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/gordon-lightfoot-dead-1.6828991

https://www.wgacontract2023.org/announcements/wga-on-strike

Uhg. Had a crick in my neck as well as back pain all day. I slept pretty badly last night. Been sleeping pretty badly for a while now. I need a vacation from my "vacation...."

As much as digital TV is an improvement over analog, I do miss being able to watch weaker signals when it gets cloudy.

"But, Jenn, it's always cloudy in Seattle."

I know, I know.

Three day cleaning binge over! Everything is sparkly and spotless except the dishes cause the dishwasher will only hold so much without exploding.

Now onto the end of the month backups, and take on May with a fresh start.

Everything's Deep Cleaned except me, and that's happening after I finish watching "The Day the Earth Stood Still." :)

Most of the house has been deep cleaned. Just gonna get some breakfast, then take on my collective nemeses: the kitchen and toilets.

Thoughts Before Bed

I've not talked about this a lot, but I've hit a major major block with the Genevieve story. Like...several years long block. I think, though, I may have finally cut my way through that knot. I was watching TV tonight kinda mindlessly, when my brain just popped up and said:

"You are trying to write one story with five threads. You are trying to mesh the threads together, and make it work as one cohesive story. This is wrong. Write five stories, with one thread a piece. Don't intertwine, don't force story changes, just write the five stories seperately. THEN, once you've done that, weave the five stories into one thread. Go do it."

And it all just clicked into place. Just that..."Oh. I GET it now. I GET IT." I've been blocked because I'm trying to find a way to tell five stories coherently as one narrative. What I need to do is tell five stories, as five narratives. Then once THAT'S done, braid those five narratives into one book.

And it only took me...what...two or three years to figure out?

When I was very very young and far more feral, I used to call Lieutenant Farrell here "Ensign Skull" cause my baby brain thought his face looked like a skull.

I was kind of a jerk as a kid. Lieutenant Farrell's probably a nice guy....