Ira Heinichen's Blog

Boy oh boy did I not want to get up this morning to do my writing. It’s been a week, folks. A week. And this one upcoming will probably be similar in that a lot is going on. For the rest of the year, in fact…but I am resolute. I don’t know how much of this detailed outline I can get done before the new year, but it’s not nothing. And I intend to extract everything I can from it.

A grind this morning. Not super productive. But I was out there, butt in seat, grinding away, which is all I can as...

I’ve finally read The Martian. I know. Fourteen years late on that one, but I wasn’t reading much fourteen years ago. I went through decade-plus…probably fifteen years, during my late 20s and almost all of my 30s where I wasn’t hardly reading anything at all. It was school. I got burned out. SO MUCH reading in college. And memorizing, too, because I was in theater school. Liz picked it up again when we graduated, but I did not. I wish I had. I was an avid reader before that. Constantly reading....

Go watch 2000 Meters To Andriivka. I, meanwhile, will go watch 20 Days in Mariupol, which I missed the first time around. Same filmmaker. I can tell you that Andriivka is one of more intense docs I’ve ever seen. It’s almost entirely made up of real-time helmet cam footage of Ukrainian soldiers fighting to reclaim a Russian-occupied village called Andriivka. Breathtaking.

Whew. I am tired. Like deeply, deeply exhausted. We said farewell to Liz’s fam today. Sorry to see them go. And we put up t...

Bear is home. Halleloo. By the way, autocorrect tried to make “home” into “gone” just now and that’s hilarious and horrifying because that would literally change that sentence to the opposite meaning.

It’s been a week. Feels like Friday even though it’s Monday. Thanksgiving is tomorrow, which…that’s a head trip.

Coops is still having the bowel issues, but nothing acute any more. So I think he’s doing better. He’s certainly acting like normal. Hungry. Peppy. Sweet. So, he seems to be absol...

Coops seems to be on the mend. Thank goodness. Still having the bad BMs, but not in the emergency fashion. He didn’t want to eat this morning and was very lethargic, which had me worried…but he perked up after taking him out, and he ate a small breakfast. He then passed out for the rest of the morning, which was also encouraging, believe it or not. He was sleeping well. Not in pain. And then he perked up even more around dinner time. He was hungry! I made him boiled chicken and he had that with ...

Ooowee. Longest day of the year today, I think. Work was insane, which was expected…unexpected was Cooper having bloody stool all day and throwing up his breakfast. He was so uncomfortable, I ended up taking him to the ER the second work was done. Five hours later, plus a bit…I’m finally in bed. Only ate breakfast today, and then snacks at the ER.

Wiped, to say the least.

Coops was sent home with tummy meds. Doc didn’t see anything too wrong with him, thank goodness. He should be on the ro...

Well, today was slippery. Joy got up about once every two hours last night to go out and potty—pee, mostly. So, sleep was not reliable. Sigh. Spent the morning finding a place to take her to get checked out. Not the easiest thing to do on a Sunday morning.

It meant I didn’t get to write this morning, and I didn’t get to go see Wolfie. I was able to find an Urgent Care spot for her, and they agreed that it sounded like a UTI. We’ll know for sure tomorrow, but for now she’s on the pink stuff (s...

Tonight’s fine distinction is Volts vs Amps vs Watts.

Let’s actually start with Amps, which is a measure of the amount of electricity, how much current.

Volts is a measure of the pressure of that electrical current.

Watts is a measure of the total electrical output, and is simply a function of the previous two measurements, Amps x Volts = Watts. Electrical output is what drives up the utility bill.

So, it electricity is like water in a hose, which is apparently a fairly accurate comp...

Phone is dying. iPad forgotten in my office. Oh my. We must make this quick.

Work: busy.

Writing: nope.

Costco.

Pups.

Warriors aren’t great, but there’s still time bc Steph is great.

Night night.

A rainy day. It’s raining outside right now, in fact. Our winter is off to a wet start, which is good. The LA cliche about rain is always: “we need it.” It true tho. We always do.

Wolfie played the Mad Hatter tonight in his school play. He was great. Very funny. Did a great voice. Had a wonderful time doing his scenes and songs with his friends. It was a very charming, very sweet show. Grateful I was able to catch it.

Liz is out, now, working. Got settled in. Miss her. I feel out of sorts....