All Writing Summary
Here are the last 20 posts across all three writing areas of Stories (aka “Sri Adventures”), Journal, and Groundhog Day Resolutions (GHDR) Updates.
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Mrah! It’s been a minute! I’ve been busy so here’s a recap on various Sri goings-on since (gasp) August 23!!! Surprise! I Applied for a Job! I wasn’t thinking about applying for a job, but one popped up that made me think of a completely different career path! Rather than [...] » Read Starting to Share Something Every Day!
SUMMARY // After shrinking my goals to match what I’m actually capable of doing in a day, I’ve been making steadier progress. Pretending I’m a cat also helps when I need to pounce on unexpected opportunities. » Read GHDR Report 0909: Small Stories for Small Steps
Howdy howdy! It’s been quite a while since I’ve written any journal updates, as I’ve been regularly posting only in the Groundhog Day Resolutions (GHDR) section regularly. So, here’s what’s been happening since Summer 2025! End of Javascript Contract Work! Grant money for [...] » Read Sri Updates for Summer 2026
Mrah! I said I wasn’t going to write anything but I’m at the library with a friend and we’re practicing writing stories! So I’m going to write about the story of a cat named Sri, her human friend Ellie, and their mutual acquaintance Tobes that they’ve known forever but [...] » Read A Story Inside the Story!
Mrah!!! I have been so busy but haven’t realized it! It has been one of those weeks where the “simple outcome” I want turns out to have their OWN wants, and those wants have their OWN outcomes too! It’s a long chain of wants that leaves me feeling stretched out more than [...] » Read Ye Olden Times Bites Me in My Fuzzy Butt!
Mrah! I totally forgot to write my story update yesterday, but that was because I was busy with a surprise job opportunity that I found very appealing but also quite different from what I’ve done before. It took me a few days to decide that “what the hell, it won’t hurt to [...] » Read Sudden Career Opportunity Panic!
Mrah! Another day of dealing with the double whammy of NOT ENOUGH SLEEP and RUNNING MULTIPLE ERRANDS . Such days always seem to exact a heavy toll on my ability to be focused and alert. It’s around 10PM now, and I’m only now starting to feel bright-eyed and ready to pounce [...] » Read Three Pounce Targets!
Mrah! It’s late! I’m sleepy! I demand attention and tribute! But there’s no one to provide me with these things, so I suppose I will have to pay tribute to myself. Harrumph! “You got a good chunk of stuff done today, Sri!” I informed myself with the greatest sincerity. [...] » Read Adulting Groove!
The late afternoon sun had started to sink behind the pines when Sri the Cat noticed. She had been sitting in her patio food garden reading a chapter of The Kamogawa Food Detectives . She had needed the break from the tedium of doing her daily Adult Chores for Being a [...] » Read Adulting for Creative Independence. Sigh.
Mrah! Saturday! A chance to recover from yesterday’s unproductive day! Looking back at it, the main achievement was making the rungs of a Software Ladder that are one of the paths toward being competitive in whatever marketplace I belong in. This is not exactly the most [...] » Read Sri is So Boooored
Sri yawned mightily, shaking the brain fog from her head. She had made the mistake of eating two huge slices of locally-baked white bread slathered with imported French butter. It had tasted amazing for five minutes, and then Sri’s blood sugar spiked and wiped her out for [...] » Read First Rung of the Software Ladder
“It’s a fine day to start a new life!” exclaimed Sri as she opened the window of her makeshift cottage. The woods outside were bright and teeming with birds noisily going about their business, which put her in a good mood. “All I have to do is start to launch my [...] » Read Prelude: Beginning Sri's Story
A Cozy Place for Narrating The Cat’s Journey When I was starting to implement The Ship storyline, it became clear that I needed to start small from very humble beginnings. The things that I am doing every day are insignificant when compared to the vast universe implied by [...] » Read About Stories
SUMMARY // After trying out my June Master Plan, I noticed a mismatch in scale between my daily tasks and the epic reach of my strategy. As a result, everything I did seemed insignificant! So, I’m scaling down my immediate ambitions to tell a cozier story. » Read GHDR Report 0808: Ship-Shop Flip-Flop
SUMMARY // After burning three weeks writing the last Groundhog Day Resolutions report, there are a lot of new things to put in motion. I am taking time, though, to replenish my energy. » Read GHDR Report 0707: Resting Before Acting
SUMMARY // A new productivity story begins! I’m choosing approaches that I think work better for my quirky neurodivergent traits without alienating others. Fingers crossed. » Read GHDR Report 0606: A New Story from Inverted Assumptions
Sri’s GHDR Writing Doctrine This document summarizes how I want to approach GHDR-related writing in the future with the launch of The Ship . It is my writing doctrine. It’s written as a hybrid writer/director statement using my own terminology. A Claude-assited mapping of [...] » Read GHDR 0606 Appendix: Sri's Writing Doctrine
This is an appendix for the main Groundhog Day Resolutions Report for June 6, 2026. It describes the production process for making the Ship Operational Diagram from conception to print. First things first: How does The Ship even move? As I established in the May 5 Report, [...] » Read GHDR 0606 Appendix: Ship Diagram Process
In the early days, I thought it was just a matter of following the freshest productivity tropes—this was during the heady days when Getting Things Done sparked an explosion of transformative ideas before “social media” even was a thing—and just executing to completion . [...] » Read GHDR 0606 Appendix: Timeline of GHDR Evolution
SUMMARY // To overcome my severe allergy to marketing, I have reframed my business and online activities as a “ship that sails through the oceans of human interaction.” Exciting and scary! » Read GHDR Report 0505: Setting Sail!