To Do

That was useful. I need a recovery day (as ever), so this list will be in two parts. Stuff I must do today, and stuff I may do today. Goal: finish all of the first, and any two items from the second.

Must:

1. Do the laundry.

2. Go grocery shopping.

May:

1. Sort beads on the bead cart. (At least 1/4, preferably 1/2.)

2. Read the last story in Assassin Fantastic.

3. Write out notes on the story that is now actually working its way through my mind. Or bits of it. Or whatever.

4. Read part of Exalted. (At least 50 pages.)

5. Finish the beaded necklace I'm working on.

6. Work on the amulet bag I started. (Finish at least six rows.)

7. Describe the eastern end of the boardwalk for Ashes to Ashes.

Yay!

Shopping done. Laundry done (except for folding the towels). Now to pick two of the optional ones.

It was a good morning. I started laundry within an hour of the laundry room being unlocked, which is to say, I was NOT one of the three people who vied for the machines AFTER my loads were done. Since I had five loads, I was very very grateful for this.

People are odd. I drove down to the grocery store, and followed someone else up an aisle. He took the closest space to the store that was open (not counting the handicapped space) in that aisle. I took the next one, which was two down (i.e., there was a single car between us). I would have taken that one if I had been the first one of us there. Why? Because it was already warm out, and that one was shaded. Well-shaded, too.

He gave up shade, for about ten feet of walking? Bwah? Well, I'm glad he did, because it meant I got the shade. *grins* Never argue when the craziness does you a favor. Or at least, don't argue too loud.

Happy, happy.

I've read the last story in the book, as I wanted to. I've almost finished the eastern end of the Boardwalk. I've sorted SOME of the beads, at least - not all. I've hung out with friends.

I have three or four more hours left of non-sleeping weekend, and I've nothing to do but set up two exits, and do as I please.

Not too bad.

What an interesting day.

Got the last of the descing done on the boardwalk. Once it's glanced over, the extra piece will go in. It's good, I think. Not spectacular, but better than merely okay.

Hope I'm right. ;)

The beads are sorted. Some of them, anyway. More than were sorted.

I've quit staffing at Endless MUSH. It's been this very quiet place. The Goddess poked me on ICQ because I had lots of waiting mail. I logged on. I realized I hadn't been on since Monday; I had 8 waiting messages. Four inspections, two link-opens, and two notes from the goddess, one about a build matter, one asking whether I still had time for this, and saying players were starting to question.

I was just tired. I could find or make the time. But what would I have to give up to find that time? I'd rather put my time into Ashes, into beading, into myself, into the things that have more consistently rewarded my efforts. I poured a lot of effort into Endless, and it has been consistently okay...but my time is not all that free these days, and now, now that it grows active...it's too much for me.

I could probably get a lot back from it. I will definitely continue to play there. Probably as intermittently as I have all along, I fear, but I like the place.

But I don't have the energy for staffing there. The decision's not quite irrevocable, but it's close - I'm sure Lithium would wonder why I quit, then came back. I've already sent @mail to transfer our embassy on Online Gaming Resource to someone still on staff. I've cleared my mail-queue on Endless, and wiped all my attributes except a generic note that I'd gone on leave and to direct issues to Lithium.

Normally, I don't burn my bridges that thoroughly. Normally, however, my character object isn't a reusable item. Since I was wiz-flagged and the God's time is also at a premium due to real life, it is. Which is cool; I was actually the one who suggested it, as a solution to the problem.

I didn't stop caring about Endless. But I stopped trying to give it so much of my heart, maybe. I wanted it to matter to others. And it does now. Ironically, after the lack-of-mattering had caused me to grow tired about the whole matter, had caused it to matter far less to me.

I loved A Time Endless. I loved the stories told there. Somehow, I thought we'd make something - if not the same place, of course never that, but something similar enough. And maybe we will.

But I won't be staff. I'll be a player. And I'm glad of that, though I wasn't sure if I would be or not when I made the decision. Hopefully I'll still be glad tomorrow, but I think so.

And meanwhile, I'd better get some rest. I have an early interview tomorrow. And before rest, I'd better close all these little containers of beads, or I will kick one over in the morning.