Random this-n-that
This morning's First World Problem Stupidity: I left my apartment and locked both locks, even though my cleaning people only have the key to one of them. I was all set to run back home (killing 1.5 hours of my day) when I realized that hey, we have a management office at the complex. I called, they opened the other lock, and all should be well.
Continuing FWP: my cat gained 1.5 lbs in the past year. That's a lot for a cat, nearly 12% of his body weight (like an average human gaining 15-20 lbs). Fat boy must now go on a diet and get more playtime. The playtime is on me. I think it will take the form of playing "chase" around the house.
Mother's Day dinner on Saturday. We do that because the restaurants in NYC mostly limit their menus on actual Mother's Day Sunday, or they're jammed up so packed it's annoying. We went to Del Posto this year. I am stunningly grateful that my sister, who earns at least double what I do, is hip to this and doesn't ask me to pick up more of the bill than I can handle. (Also, I think she knows how much it costs these days, between gas and tolls, for me to go back and forth to NYC and for me to drive into Manhattan from Mom's house. Driving is required for my elderly mother.)
Writing update: Didn't get much done this weekend as it was Mother's Day and I was doing the long drive back and forth. I am seeing that I'll need to do a THIRD pass through before I can give it to my beta readers. Le Sigh. That is how I write. A new layer goes on each time.
I'm stuck on timelining again. I have two major events that are interspersed with two ongoing situations that look a lot alike. Basically, assassinations, but for different reasons at different times...yet they could in theory work as being for both reasons at once. Argh, it makes my head spin. There's no way to dig it out without going through again so I can keep all the moving parts in my head at once.
There are times when I would like to write simple stories with straightforward plots and small casts of characters, set in contemporary America. Hell, even complex plots with large casts of characters, as long as it's set in contemporary America. WORLDBUILDING IS HARD, Y'ALL.