I’m up and wide awake at 2 a.m. again.
It isn’t insomnia. It’s just that I fell asleep at 7 p.m. and, for me, seven hours is long enough to be sleeping at a stretch.
The down side is that I’ll get tired again at just about the time I need to go get my finger poked to have my INR level checked. GRRR!
But being self-employed, I can just take a nap if I still feel sleepy after that! So, there ya go!
WALKED 13,000 STEPS YESTERDAY
Yesterday I decided to take my usual “summertime” walk for the first time in months, even though the temperature was just 44 degrees F. Usually in the winter I walk about 4000 steps in a 16-block jaunt, but during the summer, I walk 10K steps.
After walking 10K steps by noon, I added another 3K during the day. At one point I got up from bed to visit the bathroom (hello, bathroom!) and wondered why my feet were a little sore. Then I remembered. I’m surprised I wasn’t stiff or sore anywhere else; that would have reminded me sooner that I had walked a lot more than usual yesterday.
It felt good. If the weather holds, I’ll probably keep doing it. Can’t hurt. I’ve put on some winter weight, and walking it off before I head to New Zealand (where it will be about 75 degrees F) would be good. I plan to wear shorts a lot there, and a tank top for the mud bath, so losing ten pounds would be a good thing!
I have a blog “facilitator” this morning:
Truth be told, she isn’t much of a facilitator.
As you can see, she has completely taken over my mousepad, making it harder for me to work here.
Nevertheless, she wants to be with me, so she gets to be, because that’s just the way it is in this household:
The cats rule.
Except when they don’t.
When I’m writing for clients, they have to stand down. I need to be more focused and efficient when I’m writing for clients…
But since writing for clients is a somewhat a rare occurrence these days — because people are trying out AI writing (OH, MY — DANGER, WILL ROBINSON!) — that frees me up to do some personal writing, and to think about writing another book.
I NEVER USE AI TO WRITE –AND NEVER WILL
This is probably a good place to mention that I don’t use AI to write my books. (Not that I even could a couple years ago, but just so you know!). I wrote TRAILBLAZER: A Guide for Magnificent Misfits the old-fashioned way, personally putting one word in front of the other. Which I’m sure you can tell because my books express soul- and experience-based insights. AI can’t write the way I do. It can’t even deep fake it.
That’s the thing about real writers: we aren’t duplicate-able
I’m sure by now you’ve seen lyrics written “in the style of” various famous lyricists. They’re utterly laughable. It’s the same with unique creative voices. Oh, I was once able to “mimic” Mark Twain well enough to astound my junior high teacher, but that’s because I’m a human being who enjoyed so many of his writings that I had his writing voice in my head. And I doubt that, even with that, Mark Twain himself would have agreed that I perfectly mirrored his style.
There’s just something about human communication that AI still is incapable of capturing. Again, I call it soul, but that’s not exactly it, either. What it is, is LIFE! AI isn’t alive, so it can’t write as if it is. That’s the difference.
