What will day three be like?

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I didn't write down much from day two, but I got a newsletter out and then I went to spend time at Rapture. I wasn't really into socializing and was very bad at it as I'm becoming more of a work-person than a play-person. 

But I did catch the first set of the jazz and one day I want to learn to write about what is happening as I listen to musicians trade off and I want to experience that more. 

On this Christmas Eve morning I find myself all alone and ecstatic at the prospect of continuing a time of solitude. I'm listening to a Dan Deacon song, one I first heard in late 2008 on an NPR podcast just as I was beginning a time when I would get in shape. I'm not in that shape now. 

Will I get there?

Not a question I can answer. What I have to do now is document the closing of the windows as I get back to work after suddenly leaving yesterday. There are so many and I don't know where to start. I have no clear memory on what I wrote yesterday. I'm not even sure at this point if I'll write anything today or if I will give over to the holiday.

In any case window-closing time. I have to do this before I can load up a video game on the other screen. I associate Christmas with video games. 

  • I'm done with the Charlottesville procurement page for human rights mediation. It was a minor point in yesterday's newsletter. 
  • There's a Wikipedia page for Charly Garcia, a musician I heard yesterday for the first time. He's from Argentina. 
  • And then I note the Holiday Story Planning page, a worksheet designed to help me think through what I do need to keep open. I decide to keep this one open and look at it.
Even though I don't have a C-Ville Weekly story to write until January 2, I want to begin to create a list for what I will pursue. I often switch things up at the last minute and I want to begin 2026 more organized. 

With a break in deadline, I use the planning document to begin to shape what will happen and I decide to take a moment to add to it while this is fresh in my mind and Dan Deacon is playing.

Then the song switches and I have to change it because I don't want to hear the song that felt good to hear when I was going through a painful break-up. I decide instead to try out another musician I've not heard before and I go with something called Babasonicos, picked from a list I have from a DJ channel based in Argentina. 

And then my brain stops for a second and I imagine going to some of these places across the world and then remember I need to renew my passport. I also am not sure if it's save to leave and expect to come back at this time. Something is very wrong at the moment and I remember that's why I am working so hard. 

I have to open up a window to look at my computer's files to see what sound I've not logged in the planning document. But the desktop is also cluttered and I feel a need to go through it quickly on my way to the correct directory. 

I've not cleaned up the desktop for a while, and I never remember the times when I do this level of organization. But at the holiday time, I feel a need to begin to recreate and change systems. I create a direct link to a research folder I never use, but I could really begin to use. 

So I put a key document from Charlottesville's FY2026 budget development in a folder I create for this purpose. I stop for a moment to look up a recipe for something I want to cook tomorrow morning to try to keep a Christmas tradition going even though I'm all alone here. 

(I then go into work-only mode because it's taking too long to document things and I think I've made the basic point)

I get to a point where I determine I will aim to get a newsletter out because I want to get whatever I can out. It makes me happy to do the work I do. It could be I write it for December rather than today and give myself two days without a deadline. I still want to write and process because that is what my existence is. I take great joy in being able to do this. 

More windows need to be closed:

Now I need to close this window as it's time to get on with the day, a day in which I can relax and enjoy myself. 

But, I conclude with a question? I have audio chopped up already for a longer version of a story already in C-Ville Weekly. Do I go with that or start fresh?





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