Playing Wildstar, planting potatoes, reading Beloved (T. Morrison) and colouring my colouring book :D Good Tuesday.

Though the crappy bug sting on my forearm continues to blister, the day has been beautiful. G and I and the mutt offed early to his parents’ farm to help out. I planted so many potatoes I nigh keeled over during lunch and G scraped/cleaned dozens and dozens beeswax comb frames. The cutest part of it all was Barky, chasing butterflies and having her ball fetched across the vast fields, but mostly digging out the potatoes and bringing them back to me. She is still asleep now, as the day slowly wanes. The problem is draught – though clouds form all the time, nothing falls and for all the perfect sunshine, the soil is pepper and the beets aren’t growing. Supposedly tomorrow there will be storms. That would save the season.

I had frozen whipped cream and dry beetroot/raspberry bars for diner, watching trailers. A good Monday, indeed.

Something stung me :/ ...

...some asshole ant or a very very small bug with little wings. But even as I blew on it to shoo it away, it kept stinging me. Now I have a walnut-sized yellowish-looking knot swelling under my skin. I am sure it didn't stung me with it's rear, so I doubt it's an infestation with some larvae or something (not the climate for it, but my imagination goes there soon enough), but whatever it injected hurts, itches and looks annoying. I also smell of garlic, as I medicate the swelling with half a clove. :/

How come there are no bridges in Egypt? There are three, I think, in Cairo, but none elsewhere. Which element is the nemesis of a bridge?

The other Sextbot short story cover...

Reading American Pastoral. Excellent sentence structure ...

"Sextbot" cover

This isn't as creepy as it could be, but it's an illustration for the gynoid short story I'm writing for Goose ATM. I got the idea from a Viennese shop window I saw the other day. Plus am watching a lot of android-themed or AI genre TV shows, like Humans and Black Mirror and Stand Alone Complex until I'm sufficiently freaked out.