A Place of Safety - Derry / New World For Old / Home Not Home

A Place of Safety - Derry / New World For Old / Home Not Home
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Thursday, August 28, 2025

Calming down...

Got 90% of the reformatting done on BA-3 but started feeling weird. I hadn't eaten on schedule, today, so thought that might be it. Heated some of my potato soup and that worked nicely for my stomach, but when I checked my blood sugar 2 hours later, it was 255 and my BP was 160/96. I make that soup rich but that seemed excessively high.

So I stopped everything and kicked back to read more of The Thursday Murder Club. No surfing the web or snarling at MAGAt assholes who are proud Felon47 is destroying the country. That brought my blood pressure down to 135/83.

I also had some tea and muffins I'd made but were burned on the bottom. Unfortunately, that meant I couldn't get a fair reading on my blood sugar, but I do feel better.

I think tomorrow I'm going to track down the psd file of the first two avatars for BA and steal the title lettering off them, then work on making the image I posted yesterday as its cover. Keep the feeling of the first two going.

I'm going back to my book, now. I'm enjoying it, despite Orman's writing style. He actually got a couple laughs out of me. There's one moment where a young woman goes out on a date with what I think is a personal trainer she met online...who doesn't believe in books, but thinks you should learn from experience and keeping an open mind.

As he eats a salad and has a protein shake! At an Italian restaurant! Sacrilege!!!

She's bored to tears so decides (in her mind) that she should kill him by injecting cyanide into a dough ball that came with the meals, but then realizes it wouldn't work because he doesn't eat carbs. It came so quickly, I laughed for a good minute.

I'm wondering if I should consider trying to write a quirky murder mystery using a pseudonym and see if that could bring in some good sales. I just need a fun gimmick. Ideas are welcome. Maybe an update of The Bobbsey Twins?

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