The Serpent Slinks Back to Cyberia

[izmeina]

It's been a long long time since I've darkened the pages of this online Pensive.

I still can't believe it's November.

While many of the Serpent Circle online are busy squiggling their Nanowrimo novels, this lazy serpent is lurking on the sidelines this time.

First time in 15 years. It does feel sort of strange and surreal but at least I will have no excuse this year not to be super organised for Christmas.

Which reminds me, since the untimely demise of Book Depository, I no longer have a one stop spot for most of my overseas Christmas shopping.

Last year I got very decadent & sent a few owls with Australia Post.
Never again.

Daisy and her daughter left on Wednesday. They were staying with me at the Lair since early September.

The Big Mac is covered in cobwebs since it's now a good 12 weeks since I last used it.

So far the tweet stone isn't too bad. Definitely not advisable for Nanowrimo novel writing.

I'm hoping to slowly and steadily catch up with Catness, Reg, Ashtoreth & all the other wonderfully witchy creatures in the serpent circle.

I've even got a bit of Grinch gossip in spite of today being exactly 4 years since the Court signed off on our official "Divorce"

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[catness]

Welcome back! I've figured that you're busy with the family. Hope that the family reunion was a lot of fun!

So you're taking a break from Nano, that must be sad... Which reminds me, do you ever do anything with your Nano drafts after completing them? It's been years since I read any of the hilariously wicked serpent scribbles...

I remember I found a few Book Depository alternatives on Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/BookDepository/comments/12bofmu/list_of_book_depository_alternatives_with_free/ Some of them don't work, and none of them have the same wide selection of books as BD used to have. Damn Amazon.

[izmeina]

Sorry for being such a snail. Still sticking to the Tweet Stone to write posts and replies.


It's funny about Nanowrimo. While on the one hand I miss it - after 14 years it had become almost a habit, on the other, it's good to take a break. No point in becoming a slave to the STREAK. I save that for Duolingo ;)

(Added later - I decided it would be crazy to consider anything distracting me from spending lots of time with my family - especially if that something would most likely end up gathering dust on a hard drive some 10 years later)


I may have been tempted.if my sister was leaving in the first few days of the month but it would be sheer madness to even dream of jumping in after 8 days.

Especially since I've not written anything remotely resembling proper stories since November 2018 which was 6 months after Petunia died.

I did write a LOT about.the awful antics of Vernon Dursley at that time and since.
So basically, ever since then I used the month to make a giant Pensive.

So the time was not really wasted as it may provide a future source of raw material.


That's exactly what happened in Camp Nanowrimo in 2012.
It turned out the real story was not about Cornucopias or very fancy retirement homes for superannuated cats but the dramas at the mad house where I was working at the time.


It's a week tomorrow since my sister and niece left.


I've never done anything with my old snarky stuff.


Thanks for the list of BD alternatives. Kenny's looks the most promising so far.


I pick up so many amazing books for peanuts at the charity shops but it was still cheaper and more reliable to buy them new on BD than to get them for $2.00 then send them via Oz post.

Oz post is so slow these days that it's probably already too late to send anything with them.

I'm making the most of my now relatively empty November schedule to do the odd book blitz
(I have way too many) and to do a lot more reading.


I might even manage to send my Christmas cards on time.