{"id":3866,"date":"2019-11-04T00:32:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T05:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tikatu.com\/?p=3866"},"modified":"2019-11-04T00:56:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T05:56:32","slug":"the-perils-of-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tikatu.com\/musemoves\/2019\/11\/04\/the-perils-of-november\/","title":{"rendered":"The perils of November."},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m wearing these “recovery gloves” (seriously, that’s what the manufacturer calls them) because my fingers and knuckles are screaming for relief. Not only am I typing my NaNo novel up, but I just finished a 6-foot long knitted scarf I made for a Christmas gift. (My first ever! Go me!) I expect to have a lot more pain as November rolls by because the people I love are getting mostly handmade crafts for Christmas. I also expect I’ll be taking ibuprofen nightly as well just to deal with the issue.<\/p>\n

Is this how arthritis starts? Is this how it feels? Lord have mercy, I might have to fire up the old Dragon speech-to-text program and use that for NaNo just to spare my fingers! Yikes!<\/p>\n

By the way, the new story’s title is The Work of Love<\/em>. Still deciding where and when this happens, though I’m leaning toward California, well after the Gold Rush. And that guy in the previous post? He now has a name: the Right Honorable Ezekiel P. Harris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m wearing these “recovery gloves” (seriously, that’s what the manufacturer calls them) because my fingers and knuckles are screaming for relief. Not only am I typing my NaNo novel up, but I just finished a 6-foot long knitted scarf I made for a Christmas gift. (My first ever! Go me!) I expect to have a lot more pain as November rolls by because the people I love are getting mostly handmade crafts for Christmas. I also expect I’ll be taking…<\/p>\n

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