March 2024

It's the last day of March and while it was supposed to be spring and the poor little groundhog prognosticator predicted we'd be in full sun with flowers coming out of our ears its been clouds, and rain, and dark, and recently a storm hit that dumped more snow than we have had all year. The chives in the garden that were slowly making their way to edible were buried, so I'll have to wait a little while longer to have them with a tofu scramble or vegan eggs. 

I had lots of plans to write this month. I also had the motivation and the ideas. I have so many ideas that I can't wait to work through and get out of my brain. I also did not have to travel in March so I could set up a nice routine for writing. As a result, I have barely written anything. In the past, I'd wonder what went wrong. I had everything in place for a productive month of writing. Turns out nothing went wrong, I just chose to spend more time with the family. We've taken to gathering in the living room and playing video games or watching bad television. Talking and laughing about our days and what we are planning to do. In between that we've squeezed in a night of Yoga at the YMCA or having a swim in the pool. I'll have more time eventually and I'll keep letting those ideas build up.

Though I didn't write much I still have a full novel and full-ass book of short stories and novellas ready to go once I get some cover art. Still planning on having that ready, maybe by this fall. It's a good time for new books. 

Finished reading Beulah by Christi Nogle. It's about seeing ghosts but mostly shadows of ghosts, a family, and the last quarter of the book was a wild ride. At times spooky, sometimes confusing, but mostly sweet. What more could you want from a ghost story? 

I am reading Fever House by Keith Rosson and I'm going to follow that up with an advanced copy of its follow-up, The Devil by Name. So far so good. 

I finally watched Beau is Afraid - what an intense freaky movie. Not a horror but horrific, and uncomfortable the entire time. It's not a dream sequence, it's much more cohesive than a dream but very scary dreamy. Worth a watch but I would not watch it again. 

Speaking of movies I would not watch again. I watch the new Roadhouse movie with Taylor Swift's ex-boyfriend Donnie Darko and Conor McGregor. 3 things: 

1. I didn't like it and didn't hate it. It does not stand up to the original and was bad in many good ways 
2. This was way better than the Point Break remake. 
3. (and the most important thing) Conor McGregor needs to be Popeye in a new, grittier, and darker, Popeye movie. It will never touch the Robin Williams and Shelly Duvall classic but it could be great in its own way. January 1st, 2025 Popeye enters the public domain and someone needs to make this happen.

Some other stuff got watched but it was all bad television that'll rot your brain so not worth bringing up, 

In other news, there's a comet in the sky. 12P/Pons-Brooks, otherwise known as the Devil's Comet because of how it looks and not because it actually belongs to the fallen angel, the dark lord of the underworld, the Devil themself. It's a big one and you can see it for the next few days maybe. We could see it if the house in our backyard was gone. Looking to the sky, we also have that total eclipse crossing over the country and a large part of Maine on April 8th. I am going to deal with seeing a near-total-ish view of it because I don't feel like driving on Maine's broken springtime mud season sketchy roads with thousands of other people who are not going to be paying attention to where they are going. Besides, it's just going to rain and be dark for a few minutes. 

That's it for March, Maybe I'll have more written in April. 

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Here's a picture of my chives doing their best to bust through the frozen tundra that is our herb garden so the post is not all words.