Added a little water to the waterbed tubes since I got a bit of stretching, especially with a soft side. Of course, opening and closing the tubes was a pain in the ass, though worth it. We’ll have to do it again in a couple of months to add conditioner. 

Not sure if the lacquer was really going to help my thumbnail, so I resumed soaking it in vinegar.

Today was the park yard sale. I knew I'd have to sleep this day with my shit luck, so I didn’t even bother to check the calendar. Besides, we don’t have much extra money anyway, and personally, I don’t care to mingle with these delusional hate-mongers.

Got some fruity red Franzia wine. It’s different because it’s a bag in a box with a little tap dispenser at the bottom. Went with a “lightweight” wine this time at 9% rather than the 13.5% that Merlot has. This way, it doesn’t make my heart race much. I’m also using up our 4 oz cups, so that’s slightly less than a typical 5 oz serving.

I wish I could be excitedly taking advantage of today’s tools and working on a story, but I just can’t get anything going. I miss that sense of productivity, even if it was for nothing in the end other than doing it just to do it. I thought of adding more to some past stories, then I thought of doing a twist on those stories, and I also tried to come up with new ideas, but nothing really excites me. I miss the days when I would get ideas faster than I could get them into print. Of course, 20 years ago, I had to write everything myself. The Dragon speech-to-text software they had back then was a joke. It seems like speech-to-text didn’t really become reliable until around 2015.