DTED: April 4, 2011

I have this problem where people keep asking me what I’ve been up to these days and I just sort of laugh and go “oh, absolutely nothing.”   Which isn’t technically true, but it’s much easier than saying “oh, I’ve been trying to figure out how Kathgine returns from the swamp and nailing down her relationship with her uncle.”  Oh yeah, that’s going to be a riveting conversation.

But in case you’re a glutton for minutiae, here’s a typical Saturday in Daniel-land.  Now stop asking me until I have something real to talk about.

Coffee and catching up with the Internets when I wake.  Black.  Nothing else.

This is what me getting some writing done looks like.  My desk is kinda uncomfortable to write at for long periods of time so I use the laptop (first-world problems, I know).  Black tea (see a pattern?) and some cheese and crackers out of frame.  Wikipedia’s open in the background, probably to some ridiculous page like lighthouse architecture.

Because I live by myself, cooking has its own challenges.  Mostly, how do I eat everything because I’m only one guy.  I do most of my cooking on the weekends because my hotplate is a slowpoke and it takes double to cook anything.  Today’s foray: french onion soup.  I cut them up early and go back to writing.

There’s usually a lot of this, too.  Me standing at the window and sneering at the nasty weather and congratulating myself for staying inside today.  Sometimes there are bananas as well.

Dinner!  I cut out the twelve million hours it took to cook these onions down.  I declare this foray a wild success.

A little Minecraft action to finish out the day.  I made a terrible decision to start a new world from scratch after all the new updates (I want a wolf!) and so I have to rebuild all the different factories I took for granted in my previous world.  Seriously, I forgot how hard it was to build just a simple tree farm until I had to actually do it again.

And then sleep.  I’m sorry I don’t have a picture of that.  Actually, I’m not sorry.  I’m not a very flattering sleeper.