So Frustrating

This morning I was on Zoom with my Novel Intensive critique group and my internet went out--again. Kicked me right off. I was smart enough to get on using my phone so I only lost a couple minutes of the meeting but, really, I thought the tech visit last week had fixed the problem. Evidently not. So I called Spectrum once the meeting was over, kept insisting I wanted to talk to a REPRESENTATIVE (I capitalized it because I had to repeatedly yell it to be connected), and finally got a callback from a tech person who rebooted my system but couldn't figure out what was wrong. I've got another service appointment tomorrow afternoon that will hopefully do the trick. 

 

In the afternoon I sat at the table performing the mindless task of portioning out a big bag of M&Ms. I need to get my snacking back into better control so I thought I'd start with dark chocolate tiny candies. Ten of them counts as 2 points so that's how many are in each bag. I've kind of gone off the deep end lately and need to rein myself in.

 

For today's drawing I chose to stop at the Bison page since I loved seeing those great beasts all three times I was in Yellowstone. It was pretty simple to draw and color. I like how dainty the hooves are compared to the beefy body of the creature.

 

Yesterday at the grocery I walked past the beer aisle and noticed that Zambaldi Yard Games IPA was down to one 6-pack and that was at the back of the shelf, so I stopped and slid it to the front of the shelf just in case someone wanted to buy it. I'm nice like that. And it's on sale!

 

I got comments from the members of the critique group back so I spent most of the afternoon going over what they had to say and making some additions and edits to my copy of what I sent them. One thing I hadn't done was give some clues about relationships between Rose and Iggy and Rose and Geneva so that people who pick up this book without reading the previous ones won't be too confused. So I did that. I don't want to give too much backstory and bore the people who've read the previous books but I don't want people frustrated either.

DS and family are in Virginia on spring break and DS texted me this afternoon that it was 80 degrees so they went to the Atlantic Ocean. He'd heard that we're supposed to get freezing rain overnight and was sorry to miss it. Yeah, I bet. We're in the "maybe" area of the state so we could get it or not. I'm hoping not but I don't have to go anywhere tomorrow so I don't care. I just hope the tech guy can get here to fix my internet.

--Barbara