Almost...

I don't bask a lot in my achievements, but having A Place of Safety-Derry get Third Place in the Book Fest Competition is pretty good, considering it's only the first third of the story. Seems symbolic.

This was a nice, long, quiet day...for the most part. Did some cleaning up on my laptop. Got rid of about a thousand emails I no longer needed. Managed to avoid getting into too many fights online with the MAGAt Class idiots. Had a potential packing job in London vanish, dammit. Balanced my checkbook and updated my daily minder. Even started reading.

I also watched an episode of the new Matlock on Pluto because Kathy Bates is in it. As were ads. It's like watching TV. I don't know what's going on in the program; some kind of conspiracy thing about somebody. I finally realized the service doesn't have episodes 1 & 2; I'd started with 3. A bit irritating.

I'm considering signing up with the Criterion Channel because they offer so many of the movies I want to see...as well as a bunch I already have DVDs for. At $11 a month? I could live with that. There are several foreign films they have that I'd like to see.

Overall, it was a nice relaxing day. Tomorrow is laundry, but I'm going to a laundromat for it, this time. I want to wash my blankets and mattress cover as well as pillows, and I need bigger machines to do it right.

PvSH is still nudging me, hoping I'll change my mind and try something new. But I just can't. Dealing with that story has damaged my self-confidence, since I've been all over the place with it and still don't have its voice or know what it's about. Not really.