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Healthy mix of plotting and pantsing for me. I do tend to give myself a barebones framework to go off of, but more often than not I stray from it, because the characters start taking over and wanting something different than the direction I've chosen for them. So I often just let it guide itself, and jump in when necessary.

I mostly need to learn how to let things go. I can't seem to stop editing and fine-tuning, which is something of an accomplishment in and of itself, since, me being me, I've always had an inclination to over-write (see: literally any of my posts here 😅 ). I then get into my head about things and want to just edit and fine-tune it into oblivion, because I know deep down (or, honestly, not so deep down) I don't want anyone I care about to read it and think I suck. It was hard enough getting a lot of folks in my life to take my desire to act and write seriously, so now I have that urge to over-deliver. I know it's totally okay to have pieces that are just written solely for you and not for an audience, but the problem is I want an audience for this particular piece, but I'm also terrified of the audience rejecting it, so it's a dilemma. I'm working on it in therapy. 😂
 
My kitchen sink started backing up a couple weeks ago. It finally reached a breaking point on Friday, when it took minutes/hours to drain.

To put my handyman skills in perspective: I can fix a computer. I can't fix a car.

Well, I'm also a cheap bastard. On my father-in-law's advice, I went to the local hardware store and bought a 50-foot drain auger. It took me about two and a half hours to force the thing 30 feet into my drain line enough times to clear the clog, clean up the resulting kitchen mess, and shower afterward, but the kitchen sink flows free again. Hooray for not spending $500 on a plumber?
 
Ru1977 said:
I mean... I have a hard time getting it off without her, so...

What? What's so funny? What I say?
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I hope it doesn't malfunction and send you into her Sarlaac Pit. Or would that be a good thing in this scenario?

TheSameIdiot said:
My kitchen sink started backing up a couple weeks ago. It finally reached a breaking point on Friday, when it took minutes/hours to drain.

To put my handyman skills in perspective: I can fix a computer. I can't fix a car.

Well, I'm also a cheap bastard. On my father-in-law's advice, I went to the local hardware store and bought a 50-foot drain auger. It took me about two and a half hours to force the thing 30 feet into my drain line enough times to clear the clog, clean up the resulting kitchen mess, and shower afterward, but the kitchen sink flows free again. Hooray for not spending $500 on a plumber?
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Kudos to you! I learned the hard way a couple years back that you really gotta be careful what you put down your kitchen sink if you don't have a garbage disposal, which, here in NY, few people I know have. Had food-filled water come up out of my bathroom sink for a good hour or so- even after I turned the water off to my sink; still not entirely sure how. The rooms are quite separated, and my landlord swears the pipes aren't connected, but my drain suggested otherwise. Thank God for Drano, or I'd probably still be picking food out of my bathroom floor. Point is, I don't begrudge anyone dealing with drain stuff- it's amazing what happens to any sort of thing- food, hair, etc. that goes down a drain and forms a gloopy smelly sludge. Ah, the joys of living alone.
 
joshsquash729 said:
Or would that be a good thing in this scenario?
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Saturday was returning registration day for the San Diego Comic Con. I'm happy to report that I got my badge and I will be at SDCC 2026 for all four days plus Preview Night. Yesterday I did a victory lap around the convention center. It was a beautiful day to walk around downtown, but this is San Diego. The weather's almost always beautiful out here.

I first attended in 1982, so this will be my 42nd straight year. It would have been my 44th, but you have to knock two years off for Covid. Unless you count Comic Con Special Edition in 2021. In which case, 2026 will mark my 43rd year.

I know. It gets confusing. Suffice it to say I have been to a LOT. And it just keeps getting better.
 
I have now fixed the washing machine not once, but on two different occasions involving two separate issues. I am not a handyman. This would normally be a call to my dad who passed away 10 months ago, but life now requires me to tackle these things without his sage advice on anything involving the house or the car. When the $12 KO replacement part from amazon didn't work and I needed to exchange for the $75 genuine part, my wife didn't bat an eye. I fixed it and she's happy.
 
A couple pieces of good news:

My mother made it through her double mastectomy/reconstruction with no issues.

My sister is going to rehab tomorrow to finally deal with decades of progressive alcoholism. Hoping we get our relationship back; we’ve been essentially estranged for years. I’ve been fortunate to be able to help her through this process though: it’s a fine line being an addiction specialist and also not wanting to butt in where I am not wanted. It’s shitty timing since I’m about to open another show and getting up to see her/do family therapy will be challenging, but of course the best time to get into recovery is RIGHT NOW.
 
You got this, sis.

I'm assuming she's a member here because, I mean, why wouldn't she be? She's gotta be out here supporting her brother's interests, naturally.
 
Damien said:
She's gotta be out here supporting her brother's interests, naturally.
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That’s actually a sad story:
She’s a ludicrously over-educated actor with a couple degrees in it, like me, but she quit acting many years ago. Definitely not into action figures, but also my entire family has pathologized my interests for so long that there’s no way she’d indulge the interest if she had it. She is into weird horror stuff, mostly revolving around medieval torture and such. We used to run around European torture museums together when we were kids and our folks took us on dad’s work trips.
But yeah we’ve been “try to be pleasant acquaintances” at family gatherings for years, especially since she got super loaded and screamed at me in a Mexican restaurant in Colorado six years ago when we were both there for a mutual friend’s wedding. To be fair: she saw me go through some really rough shit when I was at my personal lowest and also had my one really bad-news ex in her ear at the time because she lived up the street from us at the time, and then I really turned my life around AFTER my sis moved away (back near my parents, which isn’t the best because heh heh let’s just say that most of my family’s problems are traceable back to one of our parents but my sis is not into addressing that, yet) and I got out of that super-toxic relationship with the bad ex. So it’s complicated.
 
SDcomics said:
Saturday was returning registration day for the San Diego Comic Con. I'm happy to report that I got my badge and I will be at SDCC 2026 for all four days plus Preview Night. Yesterday I did a victory lap around the convention center. It was a beautiful day to walk around downtown, but this is San Diego. The weather's almost always beautiful out here.
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Nice. I was not so lucky... I attend with a core group of 4 guys. One got in and secured passes but he could only get for 3 ID's and I lost the dice roll... so I'll have to try again on general admission sales time...
 
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