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Earth Fall, 21

Connecting A to B

Connecting Earth Fall to Meld is not happening. The amount of time between them is out of wack. I think now that the events in Earth Fall took place before anything in Mongrel happened.

Lol, does it seem like I’m talking as though these events are coming into being without a writer’s input? Put like that? Yes, it does. A broad band of muscular storying is growing between Earth Fall and events in Mongrel and it’s not like I planned anything much.

Mongrel was to be part one of a trilogy that in my mind I’ve already scaled back to a twosome. Time will tell. Mongrel resides in the long long tail of indie published novels marketed by Draft to Digital.com.

I had a quick read of Mongrel’s Chapter 26 the other day and thought I wouldn’t mind running my eagle editing eye over it once more. And maybe turn it into an audio file by reading it chapter by chapter into some software and publishing that chapter by chapter.

Which will necessitate taking it off Amazon if I don’t want to get a shirty email, saying I’ve been cancelled, as the biggie doesn’t allow any part of a production it’s selling to exist outside the virtual covers of the item being sold.

Making some friends over on Substack, I got a bunch of links on how to find my voice. Thank you, Aurelian Ashmore. So yeah, I’m looking into it.

Number ‘Synchronicity’

Can you believe it? I wrote this same post (that I just posted) back in December 2024 and did not follow through with it! A better post, too.

This is it….

“I love it when I check the time and see that it is 12.12 on the 21st. Always gave me a little tweak of emotional satisfaction to see the patterning. For a long time, for years, I thought that that was synchronicity at play.

A palindrome-like date is good too. The most recent one we had was 24 November 24, or 24/11/24

Mentioning that to a friend, he said it was just co incidence. “And it’s not even that,” he said. “I bet that kind of number confluence”— that is what he called it, I probably should google that for veracity—“happens so often you can’t call it co incidence.”

Of course, I set out to see what’s what and prove either me or him wrong.

I use a twelve hour clock.

12 x 60 = 720 minutes

Set them out in a table, 12 columns across the top left to right; 60 rows top to bottom. 720 cells.

Write in only the numerals where there was a definite pattern.”

Lol, from here on re read my latest on this topic.

Numbers and Synchronicity

Like many people, I enjoy the number play possible for example with such tools as digital clock times. What I’m realy talking about of course, is play with the numerals 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. Usually I add or divide them.

Look at all these nines! If you add them all together you get 27, add those two and you get 9 again. If you add only two nines, you get 18 and if you then add 1 and 8 you get another 9. Nothing magic about it, just a pattern inherent in 9 and its processes.

A couple of years ago I went to the trouble of spreadsheeting every minute in twelve hour. 720 minutes, if you are interested. I found that a full third of these minutes have two numerals that are the same.

The above numeral combination is hardly chance, in other words. But even knowing that hasn’t changed my inclination to get excited over these tiny bits of co-incidence.

One of these days, I’ll record every single time I look at the time and see what I get. It feels like it’ll be 50%.

Do you have a relationship with co-incidences?

Lego: On the Wall

After a lot of thinking and a couple of trials, decided that pieces of base plate would work better than a whole base plate. A pair of kitchen scissors did the trick.

Pieces had to be three by seven studs to fit the velcro fastener.

These four 16 x 16 plates connected by various other plates make up the base for the first part of the scene I’m intending to display outside my unit door.

Of the three bits of green base plate at the top, only the outside two have the wall mounts. The middle one is me testing its joining capabilities. Two wall mounts together will hold 4.5 kilograms the packet tells me. Plenty for the purpose.

What I discovered a minute after I glued the velcro fasteners to the wall … the two fasteners—one gripping the other and the thickness of a bit of base plate—are nearer to two plates thick than one.

Meaning I’ll probably need to add a two by one plate to the back of all the joiner plates, for the scene to hang straight against the wall. That’s my next thing to do.

He’s got the boat stuck on a sandbank, right?

Cat Diary, 40

I’ve learned Come and Sit, both of them easy, but does the old woman think I am a dog?

She keeps saying “Look.”

I look everywhere she might send a kibble.

Have I told you I’ve graduated onto grain-free kibbles? That’s mornings, anyhow. She persists feeding me the lesser kibbles from lunch time onward.

Everytime I think I’ve trained the old woman to send a kibble into the direction where I’m looking she screws the lid back onto the jar and that’s that.

Here’s me looking everywhere …

We’ve been working on it for a couple of weeks, I might’ve cracked it 20% of the time and she keeps wanting me to look at her while she throws the kibble.

That’s so labour intensive. I want to be looking into the field when the kibble sails overhead and I can see where it lands.

She started to teach me Look because she kept finding kibbles where I hadn’t found them. What does she expect? That I should sniff them out??

I want to skip Look and go to Lie Down, should be easy to pick up a bunch of food mid morning.