Well, this was a normal day, that is just as weird a normal. It was or is as of typing this, Blue Apron Tuesday. Blue Apron changed their boxes, and as of right now they seem to be holding up better to the heat and moisture. The only trade-off is that the boxes are bigger, taking up a lot of room. In fact, if everyone that orders on Tuesday were to order, I would not be able to take the entire load. Speaking of moisture, the rain is coming back tomorrow and every day for the foreseeable future. I don’t remember a spring/summer quite like this. Usually, by now the rain goes away, and everything dries up but not this year…….no, not this year. I am never getting over this cold (or whatever it is). The runny nose is slowing down as is the cough (still nasty with chunks of yellow goo), so naturally, I’m (darn it) back out in the rain for the rest of the week. I got the grass cut so at least something other than work and hacking got done today. Speaking of work, I need to replace my phone. The delivery app is causing my phone to overheat (or something) sucking the power faster than it can recharge. Nice.
 
I was very busy today with little to nothing done other than work and lawn care. I hope to get back to typing soon but like yesterday my head hurts, and I just can’t stand to stare at this screen anymore. At least with the coming rain, I’ll have the time to work again before my head starts to hurt and when I do there will be more to come. 

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​This was a strange day. When every day is strange at what point does strange become normal? I got in this morning, and the sort was done. That is unusual. My phone decided not to charge last night, and I was at 50% power. I did my scan, loaded the packages, and pulled out of the warehouse just in time to nearly choke to death. This nasty mucus cough just won’t go away. It comes in waves and seems to hit at the worst possible times like while doing 65mph on the highway. The system was down for the first 13 stops, so I had to work those stops on paper, which made it difficult when the system was back online, but oh well.
 
I don’t have jack done, and with today being so busy as well as my usual busy Tuesday I don’t know when I’ll have something to post. I want to get back to it, but every time I try, I lose my breath and like right now as of typing this, my head is pounding. It took an hour to type this. I will keep going with all the stories and so much more to come……...
 
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Sorry about not posting anything on Sunday. It was just a bad day. 

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As is typical of me, I sat down and started to work on my plan only to get nowhere. Last night I did some work on an older book fixing some lumpy transitions and adding content that I hope helps build on the story. I hope to do this kind of work on all three of the All-American Killer Girl series with the new name Dealing Justice with book one renamed Alice’s War. I will keep going on The O’Shea Gang finishing it soon as well as the story My Personal Global War. I will sit down and make a new page for the newly revamped chapter of the older books posting when I can. My goal is to retell these stories with a better voice with more to come…….
 
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New page coming soon

Well, today was just the usual fuster-cluck, at least it wasn’t raining. No, that’s for next week……yay. Maybe I shouldn’t be typing when I’m (darn it) angry, but it’s becoming too late in posting anything so here goes. Every day I get a call about an extended warranty for a car that’s not mine. I ask them to stop calling, and they switch to another company with a similar phone number. I mean come on when did no become call back? like the girl I have chained up in my shed keeps saying, “no means no.” Sorry.
 
The day was kind of nice with a good count of packages and an only slightly aggravating route. Way too many people ordering stuff in new places (no address or on a street not recognized by GPS). All day I get calls about the car or asking for someone else. The worst of them are the Fraternal Order of Police. They call pretending to mistakenly get the wrong number, but can we talk about how we need your money? If you’re cold calling for cash, then just own it don’t lie for cash like a politician. I don’t give to people that lie to me…... anymore. I hit a pothole on my way into Medina, and now there’s a bump in the tire that hit the hole. It never fails when I’m (darn it) broke something goes wrong. Now I must find a way to get $70 to replace a tire before Monday. I can’t afford to take a day off; Monday is my busiest nonfood day. Well, I have all night to figure out what I’m (darn it) going to do.
 
I don’t have enough to post anything tonight. I’m (darn it all to heck) working on a new part of chapter two in the My Personal Global War story that is getting little strange. When it’s done, I’ll post it. This weekend I won’t be posting much so I can take care of a tire issue as well as straighten out the story for The O’Shea Gang. My goal is to tie up all the loose strings (unless they are going to be a part of the next story) and give it an end that works. When done I’ll keep going with the new story while going back and editing or polishing an older one (or three). I want to make them worth publishing on Amazon’s self-publishing platform. I tried this before with 0 sales. Part of it was my inability to promote the book because I just don’t feel all that confident in my work. I think if I take a hard look at an earlier work just maybe, I could turn that turd into something people would almost want to read or at least buy. I will do this and more keeping everything going with more to come……
 
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Warning: A Short direction changing message Alert
 
Another day like today and I won’t have to worry about the other problems……I’ll just be dead. The day started in the rain, and the rain went all the delivery day. It went from a soft mist to a driving hard almost whiteout rain. Is it a whiteout when it’s rain? As of typing this, my clear noise and slight cough is now back to a run and an aggravating hacking raw mess. I’m (darn it) never getting rid of this cold.
 
I just posted the next part in the My Personal Global War storyline. I don’t know when I’ll get back to the next story. I plan on dissecting The O’Shea Gang so I can give it the ending it deserves. I’m (darn it) thinking about going back and giving a couple of my old stories a polish. Rework some of the angles while fixing plotlines that went nowhere. If I do this, then I would start with The All-American Killer Girl vol. One, Alice.
 
For a start, I would give it a better name. If I do this, then I’ll rework vol 2 and 3. Maybe connect the first two into a larger book. If I do, then I’ll repost as I go. No matter what I will do something with more to come………
 
God that was lame, I’ll do better next time.
 
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Warning: Short message giving an excuse for being lazy Alert.
 
I hope today isn’t a sign of things to come. I started out today with the app on my phone for work, not working. It logged my first stop then wouldn’t work again. They had me turn the phone off then back on. It seemed to work then the new problem started. The app or some other issue caused my phone to drain power faster than the charge could replace it. I had to turn the app then phone off in between stops where there was a long drive. The phone also was heating up far more than before. I can’t replace this phone for a while, but I need a phone to do my job. This just sucks. I had only 37 stops today, but those stops were spread across the county, including places with closed roads from the rain and flooding. It didn’t rain today, so it's not all bad.
 
I ran into some issues while working, and I spent some time outside of work trying to fix my issues. That time was the time I didn’t have on the story, so with all my excuses in line, I don’t have anything to post today. I hope to get back to it soon and as soon as I do there will be more to come……...
 
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​This was a kind of strange day with rain and damp conditions with little breaks of sun. I seem to have day s like this where the rain follows me. I pull into a part of Medina with no rain, and if I stay in that part for too long, the rain follows. I can pull out and move on with the rain starting then come back, and it would be like it had never rained. But I don’t want to go on all day about the rain. I never wanted to be a weather forecaster. I wanted to be a lumberjack………not really. Tuesdays are usually my Blue Apron days, and I was looking forward to seeing how the new boxes held up to the change in the weather. My usual 30+ count of boxes was down to 6. I had more of the other food packages than the Blue Aprons. The other packages (which I won’t name here) didn’t hold up to the moisture at all. More than a few were a mess. This week has been strange with more than the usual damaged boxes and less than the usual package count. Also, Barberton is about to float away from all the rain.
 
I sat down and looked at what I have for chapter 15 of The O’Shea Gang. I tried to keep going as usual only to see I can’t just type. I need to break down the last 14 chapters and find all the story points and characters to give this story an end that feels right. I’m going to do that, but it will keep me from posting new parts in this story until I have this worked out. I will post what I have, but I might not have another part in this story until Sunday. I want to do this right rather than right away but no matter what I will keep going with more to come………...
 
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​Warning: A short, wet, whiny message about a slowdown Alert
 
Today was a mixed bag of good, bad, and different. When I left the house, it was raining hard. The predicted rain was here and turning the roads slick. Inside I found 78 packages waiting for me. I took 52 packages spread across the county. Speaking of rain and county, the county was flooded I many places none more so than Chippewa Lake. The lake is taking over.
 
With all the detours and packages, I didn’t get any time to work on any of the stories. I hope to work on one of them tonight, but with all that is happening, I can see I have to change my posted schedule from the site and just post when I can. I’m (darn it) sorry, but work comes first. Even with a slimmed down timeline, I will work on the site when I can with more to come……...
 
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Quick Update: I forgot to say Happy Father's day to all the fathers out there. It has been nearly ten years since my dad died, and it's hard to not think about him every day not just today. We didn't see eye to eye, but I think just maybe we found some common ground in the end. Happy Father's Day Dad Gerald Lewis Collins

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I woke up this morning with my usual headache and blood in my snot. Yummy. This went on for a while, but as it cleared, so did my head. God willingly, I will be better for Monday. I sat down and went back to The O’Shea Gang, but after a while, I gave up a little and went to My Private Global War, which I posted earlier today. This will be short with very little to do other than my laundry, the stories, and my growing headache. I don’t know what this week will be like. I need to make as much money as I can this week with the bills piling up and the next check missing the two days I was out sick. I think I’m (darn it) taking the schedule off the page with just too much happening to ever be able to have a part every 5 out of 7 days, but even with that change, I’ll keep going with more to come……..
 
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​Warning: A short petty miserable message alert
 
I worked on the yard yesterday because of the heavy rain that was coming, coming, coming and wait for it, coming until it finally rained for maybe an hour. We are in a flood warning until Tuesday, but it would have to be a massive flood to get to the hill we live on. I mean Akron underwater kind of rain. I made the mistake of seeing if I could make it without taking any cold medication today. I spent most of the day with a headache staring at the big black box in the room surfing YouTube. I did some work on the story, but not much. I posted the first part of chapter 15, but as of this typing, I have nothing for part two. I will be back on the cold meds if I feel the same way tomorrow. Today was just a wasteful time suck. In about an hour or so I plan on taking what my last hit of Nyquil tonight and I’m (darn it) not buying any more. Owe for the love of god she’s watching Les Misérables again.  At least it’s not Childhood’s End. I just want to scream when I hear the DVD menu music. I hope to get up early and work on the story while I do my laundry and I have a lot of laundry since I did nothing last weekend. I hope to get back to it soon with more to come……...
 
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