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I've definitely got myself into a snag on the Mammoths thing because the last two scenes both aren't working and it's because I've let myself get bogged down on making a mountain out of something that instead of being two 4,000 word scenes should just have been a brief exchange of dialogue and a summary and then a transitional scene. A minor annoying background character has decided to trump himself up into the Novel's Main Antagonist when that wasn't what the novel was supposed to be about. (Really, the university's scheduling coordinator is not a suitable antagonist. Not for an action novel that's not going to take place at the university.) He was meant to be annoying enough to get Protagonist B to reveal important facts to Protagonist A, and then they were supposed to move on, so it's possible I'm just going to, like, Cut To Next Scene and work out how they got there later, and bin the last two weeks' worth of writing progress, because that's just how it has to go.
(You never actually pitch the words out, you save them in a cut file and extract the things you learned in writing them. I did learn some really important stuff, it just doesn't fit there now.)
So that's great. The other thing that's great is that I can't sit at home and wait for my phone to be delivered because Dude's mom specifically needs my help in moving a giant television so she can take it to the electronics recycling thing today. She can't lift it, and Dude can lift it by himself but not carry it, so if the two of us are there we can move it.
We should take advantage of this and clear out a couple of large dead electronic items from our attic, though, because we need to clear out our attic and in fact most of our house. So.
Plan of action: go to post office right as it opens, hope to retrieve item there, if not, beg desperately, or resign myself to not getting it until Monday, and cry a lot. (OK I probably won't cry.)
(You could say, why don't you know when your postman comes by, B, don't they come the same time every day? and the answer is no, they don't, our guy alternates coming by first thing in the morning or last thing at night, and on saturdays I think there are a variety of people who do the route and they each do it differently, so i have literally no idea when I need to be at home. Sign the slip ahead of time? No, the absolute assholes set it to "signature by adult only" meaning you can't sign the slip, you have to be present and show ID. That is an utterly stupid level of security to put on a package that doesn't contain restricted substances, by the way. As a shipper, I use signature confirmation on any package worth more than $500 because then UPS at least will actually care if it goes missing-- if you don't, and they don't deliver it, they don't legally have to care-- and we put it on stuff that we think was ordered as a scam, because there was a fashion for a while to get stuff shipped 2-day to an address the scammer was monitoring to grab the package-- but like, it doesn't matter who signs for it, and if someone leaves a pre-signed slip for the second delivery attempt then it's clearly not a scam and if it gets stolen off the porch it wasn't premeditated. Adult Only Signature Confirmation is, exclusively, a dick move, and I say that in my professional capacity as a veteran online seller.)
(You never actually pitch the words out, you save them in a cut file and extract the things you learned in writing them. I did learn some really important stuff, it just doesn't fit there now.)
So that's great. The other thing that's great is that I can't sit at home and wait for my phone to be delivered because Dude's mom specifically needs my help in moving a giant television so she can take it to the electronics recycling thing today. She can't lift it, and Dude can lift it by himself but not carry it, so if the two of us are there we can move it.
We should take advantage of this and clear out a couple of large dead electronic items from our attic, though, because we need to clear out our attic and in fact most of our house. So.
Plan of action: go to post office right as it opens, hope to retrieve item there, if not, beg desperately, or resign myself to not getting it until Monday, and cry a lot. (OK I probably won't cry.)
(You could say, why don't you know when your postman comes by, B, don't they come the same time every day? and the answer is no, they don't, our guy alternates coming by first thing in the morning or last thing at night, and on saturdays I think there are a variety of people who do the route and they each do it differently, so i have literally no idea when I need to be at home. Sign the slip ahead of time? No, the absolute assholes set it to "signature by adult only" meaning you can't sign the slip, you have to be present and show ID. That is an utterly stupid level of security to put on a package that doesn't contain restricted substances, by the way. As a shipper, I use signature confirmation on any package worth more than $500 because then UPS at least will actually care if it goes missing-- if you don't, and they don't deliver it, they don't legally have to care-- and we put it on stuff that we think was ordered as a scam, because there was a fashion for a while to get stuff shipped 2-day to an address the scammer was monitoring to grab the package-- but like, it doesn't matter who signs for it, and if someone leaves a pre-signed slip for the second delivery attempt then it's clearly not a scam and if it gets stolen off the porch it wasn't premeditated. Adult Only Signature Confirmation is, exclusively, a dick move, and I say that in my professional capacity as a veteran online seller.)
