PSA: me not commenting on something does not mean I am "complicit." First of all, you need to log off and touch grass. Secondly we are total strangers so call your therapist. Thirdly there are 1,000 things happening every day and I am busy. Finally what exactly do you want me to do about it?

Sleeeeppp. I want to sleep not write! 😩 But I’m taking the second path @chrisbaty.bsky.social wrote about in his week 3 #NaNoWriMo pep talk — where everything goes to wayside but the novelling. 🥱 👑☕️👩🏻‍💻

Always seem to be issues getting the paperback cover finished with errors fixed thru @draft2digital.bsky.social BookCovers.com. It's soooooo late it's missed the launch date. Luckily I still have the original paperback edition of Time and Space available in online bookstores. Do I ask for a refund?

Little White: The Feral Cat Who Found a Home is the beloved #childrensbook that started it all -- the Stray Cat Stories series, which raises funds for non-profit #animalrescue. Based on a true story! Purchase your copy today for a young animal lover in your life. #books #booksky

Congratulations. Well deserved! Though reading measurements to three decimal places looks so awkward. But that’s Imperial for you. Metric would’ve just been a nice whole number in mm (millimetres). 😁

Your regular reminder that Pierre Poilievre does not have ANY Security clearance even after the Government said he should. YET Canada Post mail handlers have to have security clearance for door to door delivery of Passports, cannabis, medication, valuables, and mail-in Election Ballots #cdnpoli

Out of the blue, one of the novels under my White male pseudonym is selling. No marketing whatsoever. Meanwhile, I'm chucking expertise and money at novels under my own name, and sales chug along like a broken snail dumped at the side of the road. WTF?!!! 😭 books2read.com/u/3LJAOJ?for... #SFF

Instead of nation building, @mark-carney.bsky.social set Canada up for economic hardship as China barrels all over us to hog solar mkt. Carney could’ve supported national rooftop solar, Canadian solar manufacturing and exports, carbon-free energy, O&G to invest in green hydrogen. But oh hell no!🙄

I’d forgotten how the streetcar drivers used to barrel along St Clair back in the 70s (and earlier I’d guess) and woe to any car driver thinking they could get in the way. Streetcars built like tanks made their own right of ways. We simply held on and got to our destination lickety split. 😆😳

900 sales!! 🎉 If you’re planning to order pottery for holiday delivery, place your orders as soon as possible. Especially if you need something custom. littleedenpottery.etsy.com #pottery #art #ceramics #bsnm #handmade

Canada’s budget process—controversial, Opposition parties rattling chains, amendments, strategies to pass it to save face but not call an unwanted election—didn’t stop govt working. Benefits went out. Jobs continued. Airports didn’t shut down. Canadians continued life as usual. Maturity rules!

My #BrainInjury case manager undervalues how much of a good effect they have on me. I knew I couldn’t finish Psychology Today post; all I had in the tank was willpower. Novelling sapping me; I had to give up reading escapism today. But after our talk, despite a headache, I felt inspired to finish!

And with this morning's 2,056 words for chapter 18, I've passed the #NaNoWriMo finish line! Whoa!! I usually don't until the last week at best or last day. No wonder my fingers, back, neck, and shoulders are crying for relief! Too much typing, they complain. I'm only ✍🏼, I reply. 😄 #WritingCommunity

@robertcarnell.bsky.social happy birthday, Rob!! 🎂 May it be a good one!!

one thing that i like about bsky.app (the app infra) is that it's hosted on actual machines owned by them so it's not dependant on cloudflare and other cloud providers, really stands out in moments like this

I feel like crap. Too much cognitive work (probably too much cake, too, heh). I'm going to force myself to rest and finish my Psychology Today post later, like not today! #BrainInjury

I tried to revise my Psychology Today post, and I barely made it to the finish line. My brain was like nope nope nope. I wanna not think! #BrainInjury fatigue is such a —!! www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/conc... #Writing #BlogPost #MondayBlogs

@brainchain.ca 👇

So at the usual intersection where right turners play with my life, a driver actually waited until the pedestrian behind me got to the curb.😳👍The pickup driver behind the civilized one, had an enormous fit. Honked. Accelerated. Tried to go around them. Amazing the jackass hasn’t killed anyone yet.

First time I went fully off script from my outline, and it feels good! It's like a sign that my imagination knows what I want to say but has a better idea of story. Best part is harking back to book 1 and 2 to tie them in. 2,312 words today. Closing in on that #NaNoWriMo 50k! #WritingCommunity

1867. The year of Canada's Confederation, and my word count for today's chapter. I'm just past the halfway point of my novel, chapter 16 of 30. Whoo hoo! 🎂 Chocolate hazelnut capp powered my writing. All dialogue today. It's wrestling day for my protagonist: who is she? #NaNoWriMo #WritingCommunity

Remember when you were a kid and on your birthday you’d leap out of bed excited for the first flakes of snow and for birthday cake after school? Now, it’s cuddling under the comforter for a few more minutes of warmth and sleep. One cool thing about modern tech: it wishes me Happy Birthday. 🤪🎂🎈

It’s the delivery in that soothing Canadian male voice that makes laughing hurt so much. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I can’t stop!! 🤣🤣

Howling here

I haven’t been journalling every day for a long loooonnnng time. Been a couple of powerful days. Time to journal. Turn on CBC NHL hockey for background company. First thing I see is a gambling ad overlaid the action. The evil past raises its head, enticing poor millionaires with more moorrre MORE $$

The thing about writing science fiction set in the far future is you can make up names for committees and buildings but use unusual words for “committee” or “centre” or even “building.” The only problem is remembering the names you make up on the fly. 😬 Consistency! #WritingCommunity

With the nudging of @nano2wordsprints.bsky.social I finished the chapter for today. I'd forgotten a whole (short) scene this morning. Got it done now! Checked my outline for tomorrow. Nuh-uh. Switched tomorrow's chapter with the one after it. I think that sequence will flow. Rest time!! #NaNoWriMo

Do or Die. Barbara Fradkin. ““A fast driver in a good car can make it in under four hours. Halton has a BMW. It’s cutting it close, but it’s possible.“ Sullivan laughed. “With wings.“” Ah-ha! That was my Uncle. He mashed his Jeep’s accelerator down, got to Toronto from Ottawa in 3 hours.😳😱🫣 #BookSky

I'm a sucker for punishment. I'm writing this month's Psychology Today blog post. I worked out the topic with my #BrainInjury case manager last month, but right now, my mind is pulling up blanks other than the topic title. Sigh. Fingers to keyboard, Shireen, fingers to keyboard. #WritingCommunity

Watching karma bite another should elicit satisfying feels but is just tragic and the feels are sorrow and pity.

Little victories www.torontotoday.ca/local/health...

Early birthday luncheon with a yummy and oh so light chiffon cake from Jellybean Cake & Dessert, launched me right out of writing mode. This is why I began NaNoWriMo with 2 chapters for 2 days in a row. I knew halfway through, between birthday and the mid-doldrums, I may flag. Tomorrow I'm back!🤞🏼

Had a flash of inspiration this evening, wrote more words to add to this morning's action scenes (wow, I did not expect to get all exposé), and passed the 40,000 word and halfway-through-novel point! #NaNoWriMo #WritingCommunity

Let the emotions be with you. #Writing

My birthday is coming up, the first of a trifecta of sharp reminders of how much #BrainInjury changed my life. It’s the worst 3 months of the year. Some years aren’t so bad👇 but this trilogy is excavating all the feels. Writing isn’t always healing but revealing. jeejeebhoy.ca/2023/11/16/b...

The #NaNoWriMo word sprint motivated me to peel away from Netflix time and check today’s chapter. 🙌 I didn’t need to add anything! 😅 Updated the outline. And adjusted tomorrow’s outline - weather and date details. Weather is a great way to reflect or contrast mood. #WritingCommunity #SFF #futurism

p. 8 #DAVIDPremier manual. Randomized AVE @ alpha frequency - 4 sec breathing in & 6 sec out cycles. See dim magenta lights getting brighter to prompt the user to breath in. Then the lights turn to bright blue/green & begin to dim to prompt the user to breathe out. cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/00...

Fewer words this morning, but aside from one or two details, I finished the chapter and scene. Whew. It's time my mind gave me a break from typing a bazillion words! This third novel of The Q'Zam'Ta Trilogy keeps challenging me. The 1st won an award! #futurism #SFF #NaNoWriMo #WritingCommunity

Time and Space Wins Literary Titan Gold Book Award Time and Space wins Literary Titan Gold Book Award in November 2025! #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthor #TimeTravel #Canadian #Toronto

Daily bunny no.3136 is going home at last

An entire flu segment warning about H3N2 strain rising but current vaccine doesn’t protect against it yet get it because it works against H1N1 and, you know, mumble mumble maybe H3N2. No pharmacist interviewed talked masks, ventilation, filters as prevention. It’s like 🇨🇦media isn’t even trying.🙄😡

It's very helpful when allies mask up in solidarity with clinically vulnerable friends, family & neighbours. Protection is not great if you're the lone masker in a crowded room with inadequate ventilation. Better still, join our campaign for better indoor air quality standards!💚 #CleanAirEverywhere

"Between 1919 and 1930, the terms Remembrance Day and Armistice Day were used interchangeably. In 1931 the name was officially changed to Remembrance Day, emphasizing the memory of the war and the soldiers who died in battle, rather than the armistice, which was a political achievement"

Midwest Book Review of Time and Space "Unlike most timeslip stories, Shireen Jeejeebhoy departs widely from the norm of routine experience and encounters" - Midwest Book Review by D. Donovan of Donovan's Recommended Reading. #BlogPost #TimeTravel #BookReview

I have a thing about numbers. Today, I wrote 3048 words this morning for a chapter. Then added a few more words to reach 3408 words without meaning to. And when I added all today's words, my total was 3633 for a grand #NaNoWriMo total so far of 35636! 😆 The future is numbers! 😝 #SFF

Literary Titan Review of Time and Space "If you enjoyed the unsettling social critique of The Handmaid’s Tale or the time-bending thrills of The Time Traveler’s Wife, then Time and Space will be right up your alley." #TimeTravel #BlogPost #IndieAuthor

Literary Titan Review of Time and Space "If you enjoyed the unsettling social critique of The Handmaid’s Tale or the time-bending thrills of The Time Traveler’s Wife, then Time and Space will be right up your alley." #TimeTravel #BlogPost #IndieAuthor

Midwest Book Review of Time and Space "Unlike most timeslip stories, Shireen Jeejeebhoy departs widely from the norm of routine experience and encounters" - Midwest Book Review by D. Donovan of Donovan's Recommended Reading. #BlogPost #TimeTravel #BookReview

My memory wasn’t off. According to @anthonyfarnell.bsky.social no record of snow on the ground on Remembrance Day (tomorrow) and first 10cm snowfall isn’t usually till after Christmas. And last season didn’t happen until February! ❄️ More coming. 😱 (Wish 🇨🇦media stayed here not run back to evil site)

Snowed at least a week too early in Toronto.😳🤯 Snowed all day Sunday, all night, and into Monday morning. Crazy! Leaves fell onto the freshly fallen snow. Streets not cleared of leaves yet as the trees are nowhere near barren + not all had fully turned colour yet. Sidewalks & roads partly cleared.