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| Tried something different--so far seems to have worked. Went to bed early and slept fine--9pm til about 3am didn't get up went back to sleep until alarm @ 5:30am-- Yesterday I actually felt somewhat human and my job performance showed it--packaged 25,000 rounds of ammo w/o breaking a sweat--Take That!--  Today won't be as productive--I will be training a couple of the DS newbies on the the job I've inherited on days--seems I've impressed the boss afterall. No condescending quips. Well, gotta go will be back after work--in about 12 hours--was supposed to have left 5 minutes ago--BLEH! Wishing everyone a good day added 11:03pm Overall had a good day today. Now, I 'get to' work tomorrow and have a good day tomorrow, too.  Therefore, my weekend has been postponed until Friday and shortened by 1 day. I will see ya all then. |
| Went to bed sometime around 11:30pm lastnight was awake at 2:53am...short story long--I ended up sleeping through two alarms and was 10 minutes late to work this morning...Sheesh. I'm riding the yoyo of life and it involves changing sleep schedules LOL Overall, today went well. When I logoff here I am to bed and will see if I succeed in sleeping through to 6am. One good thing about this first week is that the 10 and 1/2 hours I'm at work simply fly by. I managed to package 10,000 rounds more ammo than yesterday. But, yesterday I spent half the day sorting ammo on the belt. Today, I didn't work hard--I worked steady. Still felt like I was in slow motion, but I know I made an accounting of my time. It was cool and raining when I drove home. goodnight--  |
| Well I managed to get more sleep than accomplished over the weekend...woke up about 25 minutes before my alarm was set to go off. I was pretty much on auto-pilot today and my second boss--the one who gets her decisions from the office boss--said something interesting on the way to clock out for the day. I was talking to a couple of the guys coming in on nights and said something about having a total of 10 hours sleep in four days and last night was 5 hours of it... She quips with, "Well, you should get some sleep tonight, you worked hard 'today'." I was so blown away by her remark I was speechless. (Not in a good way.) The two guys I was talking with know me fairly well and they quickly disappeared. Thank goodness she was out of the room too when I finally was able to find the use of my voice... I clocked out and sat down for a couple minutes until I'd cooled down. I haven't felt instant rage like that in a very long time. I know it is because I am so damn exhausted and sleep deprived--but she had no cause to--according to her body language and tone of voice--belittle my complaint regarding my lack of sleep and insinuate that today I actually did some work... One of the night shift fellows peeked in and asked if I was okay. I asked him what he thought of "her" comment about me working hard "today". His comment..."I know; she looks down on us too and she doesn't even have a clue what we do." I had to laugh and I told him I was fine "and just point me in the direction of my truck..." It is 4 and 1/2 hours later and I'm still wired. So I am here venting in the hopes of spending this needless anger energy so I can lay still long enough to GET SOME #@^ @#$%@ SLEEP   I hope it works LOL--it has lightened my mood a bit. I wish everyone a goodnight and a good week...It was a beautiful spring day today and I did get to enjoy some of it. That is something.... |
| Okay, I have pushed my zombiness to the limit. I managed to perform 5 reviews (four before midnight EDT) and 1 after. Two of the reviews reflected my inability to affectively proof read in my sleep deprived state. And that was with using the preview tool to proof my reviews before clicking them away! I will have to pay special attention tomorrow at work if I fail to sleep through the night tonight. I have to get up and get ready for work in a little over 7 hours from now. Wish me luck...  I'm the writer I am today, only because of all the help I've received from other writers yesterday.  |
| Okay, time to try to sleep and get onto a day cycle-- Will log back in hopefully around 9am or so Sunday Happy Easter preparations to all and remember--No matter your religious belief: "What the World needs now is Love." added 5:24am EDT Well, here I am. about 6 hours earlier than I'd like. I went to bed; was under the covers and closing my eyes; at 1:40am wdc time (11:40pm Saturday my time). And at 2:35am I'm wide awake (4:35 wdct)--can't go back to sleep. I lay in bed for about a half hour before I give it up and get up. So here I am @ 5:23am wdct telling you all about it. added 8:07am EDT Okay I am ready to try again--but I've set my alarm for 10am (12pm EDT)--Tonight I need to get a full nights sleep, because I will have to get up and get ready for work this time tomorrow. added 12:19pm EDT Yay? I'm up? I'm a bit of a zombie at the moment, but yes, I am up and dressed. And I'm eating and having coffee--my first coffee in three days! added 3:16pm EDT Activities for today: reading
PatrickB   has a winner and I hope he finds reasons to continue with this project and sharing with the writing community. The Editorial Staff include: Editor-in-Chief/Publisher none other than PatrickB ; Copy Editor/Columnist is Mandy ; and Special Contributor/Columnist is ~A.J. Lyle~ . Patrick, Mandy, and Joy deserve our applause and our readership. Well done and Rock On! This newsletter is NOT one of the officially sanctioned writing.com newsletters so it is not found with the other newsletters for subscription. You need to go to PatrickB 's portfolio to find it. I was drawn to look it up by the 'buzz' around the community regarding Patrick and his 'newsletter' and I agree "Invalid Item" is one of the most desireable sources of writing information on writing.com.  I'm the writer I am today, only because of all the help I've received from other writers yesterday. |
| Okay, I am getting ready for sleep. My effort to get into a daytime schedule--btw--I am getting to bed 6 to 8 hours earlier than normal. I am tired because I basically forced myself to get up after only 4 hours sleep. I have taken a short nap interrupted by an alarm after 2 hours. I feel as if I can sleep--the question is--for how long before I'm wide awake. Hopefully, Saturday I can get up sometime around 8-9am and stay up until 10pm then go to bed and get up Easter Sunday sometime around 6 or 7am. Then if I go to bed around 9pm, I hope to be awake to get ready for my first day of dayshift on Monday.  BLEH added at 7:05am Well I am awake and up. Not sure what to think about it either. I am tired but can't go back to sleep. Not used to sleeping when it is dark outside and I don't dare go back to bed until tonight. So this promises to be one hell of a long day. I only hope I can mentally function and accomplish something along the lines of writing this weekend--My job doesn't pay me enough to debilitate my leisure time like this . I feel really resentful about the whole situation right now. |
| I am usually quite excited this time of the week. I come home from work and am looking forward to a three day weekend. However, this morning I find I am not very excited. Today at work, I was informed that I will be scheduled to work day shift for a couple months until the crew strength increases enough to support a day and a night shift. Mind you, I understand most people would be quite happy to work days--however, I haven't worked or lived a dayshift schedule for over five years. I am basically 8-12 hours behind everyone on my siderial cycle. And I only have 2 days to get into a dayshift waking/sleep cycle--oh boy. I start dayshift Monday--7am to 5:30pm. Hell, I'm going to work when I normally go to bed!!! Talk about potential jet lag. Okay, that is the sleep situation--the other thing I'm not looking forward to is all the micro-management that exists on days. I'm used to being given an assignment and then left on my own to get it done. Day shift doesn't quite work that way. There are at least three bosses for the packaging department--which is where I work--and they have to earn their pay by being bosses. Oh joy! But first things first and that is the sleep deprivation--that is what I need to correct before it gets totally out of hand. I'm the writer I am today, only because of all the help I've received from other writers yesterday. |
| To bed, to sleep, to get up later this afternoon and go to work, to come home before dawn Friday and then enjoy 3 days (nights) of play time. see ya all then. I'm the writer I am today, only because of all the help I've received from other writers yesterday. |
| My after work show up--I am in the process of prepping my crockpot for the rest of the week (Wednesday and Thursday) lunches. And cleaning up mail and other routines so I don't fall so far behind by Friday morning that I spend most of my first day catching up. I've been pretty good at keeping this routine for over two months now. |
A very pleasant day overall. Did some work offline on my 2001 story and then some reviews. I sort of performed a mini-port raid on MichelleWriteMeow 's journal/blog "Invalid Item" . Review of "The Inkwell [2013-Present]"  Review of "The Inkwell [2013-Present]" Review of "The Inkwell [2013-Present]" (three reviews although I may only get credit for 1 as they all deal with the same item.) But that isn't the point is it? this is the point: I'm the writer I am today, only because of all the help I've recieved from other writers yesterday. added at 6:44am Well, phooey! the first review's ML didn't work because I forgot to remove the # in the {entry:#806827}supposed to be "Invalid Entry" and the item ID had a space between the colon and the number. And there is no way to correct the mistake--I could do it over with the corrections but not tonight. |
| added at 11:44pm I still have 6 Dark Dreamscapes Poetry Contest entrants to review. So far I entry poem I chose not to review but rather went to the author's Portfolio and reviewed one of his other Poems--So although I've finished 14 member reviews, I've really only reviewed 13 Dark Dreamscapes Poetry Contest entries. April 13, 2014 at 1:58am + 2,000 points from The Gift System. These 2,000 GPs are from "Daily Review Rewards". You gave 13 qualifying reviews on 04/12/14. Four Times GPs given through March 31st, 2014! Hmmm, this is April, right? I hope I don't lose 1,500 gift points for yesterday's effort just because someone forgot to roll over the date for bonus gps. I had to look up how the gp system worked. 1-2 reviews will be awarded 25 gps (not 50 for 2 reviews--25 total): however, with the bonus awards at 4 times, 2 reviews per day is awared 100 gps. The next jump is 3-4 reviews are awarded 75 gps so 4 reviews are awarded 75gps or with x4 bonus=300gps Then 5-9 reviews receive 150 gps (9 reviews receive 150gps or with x4 bonus=600gps) The last jump rate is 10 reviews or more receive the incentive of 500 gps. I performed 13 reviews April 12th and because there is an on running 4x bonus going on I received 500x4=2,000 gps. Personally, I don't mind that after 10 reviews there isn't another tier level of gps. 500gps for 50 reviews in a day (that would be one reviewing machine I tell you!) would still be rewarding. Like I said in yesterday's entry, I learn more about the craft with every review I perform because I am exposed to a full run of what is in the writing world both good and awful. Self-editing is my eventual goal. the more I learn of what doesn't work for others the more I will be able to see what won't work for my writing. |
| I just finished 8 of 22 reviews for the "Invalid Item" . (There are 22 entries besides my own). I'm going to take a break, but I will get 22 reviews finished before the weekend is finished. now onto other projects... added at 8:01pm My earlier reviewing turned out to be rather profitable--I've received an extra 2,126 gift points for 8 reviews given--the majority of the reviews were to writer's whom I've not reviewed before. 200 gps each given at this time. (1400 gps)(100 gps for a qualifying review) 375 gps were given by a some writers as a gift for my reviewing their work. And one was an auto reward of 251 gps. At the end of the day, I will receive another 800 or so gps for having done 8 qualifying reviews (or more if I do more reviews before midnight WDC Time). Not only am I thankful of the gift point boost, but for every review I give, I increase my own critical eye for when I edit my own writing. I concentrated on how the poem made me feel (I believe poetry should incite emotion otherwise, what's the use?). How smoothly the poem reads. Is there a natural rhythm, meter, flow--however you wish to call it. And how I interpret what is being said in the poem. Some examples of today's reviewing--all can be found on the Public review page--are: Review of "Death" , Review of "Beautiful Space" , Review of "THINGS OF NIGHTMARE'S DREAMS" , and Review of "Shattered Crystal Fragments" .Funny thing--I got to looking at my past reviews and then noticed in the header that I had 65 reviews by other authors that I hadn't responded to. Well, that is just rude--right? I mean if a reader goes through the trouble of commenting on something you've written the proper thing to do is respond to the comments. So, I clicked on the header Pending Response and started reading the reviews that were given to me over time which I hadn't responded to. What I didn't do was check out the dates these reviews were originally written--well, not until I had responded to the very last one, any way--the date? You may have guessed it--was in April of 2006. This was when the response to reviews tracker was first installed. Every review before that date had no tracker to record if any response was given or not. So, I basically responded to port raids by sponsored port raiding group members between the years 2006 and 2012. I guess from 2013 til today I have formed the habit of responding to every review I receive. Earlier today, I managed to clean up a folder that shouldn't have anything within it for more than a week--the Reviews: Pending Response folder. By the time I finished reading all those fantastic reviews, my ego was so uplifted, I nearly tore both my ears off walking through my bedroom door (Head was a bit swollen--get it?) And I had the best sleep ever in a very long time. I wouldn't recommend not responding to reviews just so you can get that ego booster when you happen to be low on ego--However, you can go back and reread those reviews under the header--Reviews: Received. Every review I've ever received is there--the first review I've ever reveived was a Private review in Aug 2, 2001 at 3:06am by a now past member 'pallasathene'. She reviewed my poem "Ashamed" and posted it on the Suicide Challenge page where it was exposed to a select group of writers and readers on what was then Stories.Com. This exposure helped me to clean my poem up so that Ashamed now looks like a poet wrote it. (I've never called myself a poet--I'm more of a prose writer with  poetic moments.) This kept me busy until well after 8am MDT//10am EDT. I have in my review cache 198 reviews. The majority of the reviews are on my poems. The majority of my poems are free form--I'm a prose writer, remember? I'm sure I've received more reviews than the 198 shown, but over time items have been deleted from my portfolio and I'm thinking the reviews oninvalid item are purged from the system to maximize room for valid reviews. It just makes sense. Oh, did I respond to pallasathene's review even though she is no longer present on Writing.Com? Yes, I did. Call it walking up to a marker with a name on it and telling the person whom the marker represents, "Thank-you for taking the time to comment on something I'd written, and thus helping me to improve both my written item and my grasp of the craft of writing." Afterall, I'm the writer I am today, only because of all the help I've recieved from other writers yesterday. Oh, you get to the reviews page by clicking on the blue number in the upper left corner of your page marked reviews: ### found under the portfolio numbers. |
| Dawn is at hand--still dark outside--but the birds are singing and my eye lids are getting heavier and heavier---Will be back later. added at 6:10pm I'm all caught up with my daily documentations...now to catch up with bills . Will be back when finances are settled down to their natural state of forever present hovering in the background; rather than the present state of screaming for attention and being a major distraction.added at 11:04pm AAAAAHHHH. Okay pending bills mailed. Budget envelopes stuffed. First quarter budget reconciled with an income/expense deficit I'd really prefer not to discuss. Basically, my grocery budget has been slashed--once again--to meet the other expenses that cannot be slashed but rather keep going up. Things like gas for the vehicle to get me to work so I can pay for gas that keeps going up. .Now a big deep cleansing breath--out with the bad--in with the good--again... I'm ready to write--it's the weekend and time to expand beyond reality |
| Temps were back to normal for this time of year--55 degrees F for the high and 34 degrees for the low. Yesterday was a warm spring teaser. |
| Wow. 70 degrees F today and 50 degrees F on the way home at 4am. And last week it was 32 degrees F on my wayhome in the a m. |
| Just checked in to keep up with mail and projects |
| wrote a discussion about a story I had written in 2001 and am endeavoring to write/edit into a second draft. did a review and literally did some house cleaning. at 3:14pm I entered a poem into the Dark Dreamscapes Poetry Contest last weekend and today I'm ** Image ID #1985466 Unavailable ** |
| Sweet. Dialogue regarding book revision established. Had a good day at home and now will see what I can see on WdC. |
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