This morning's prompt is 'check'.

Stuff 

I didn't finish anything for my birthday, nor for my birthday weekend. I need a goal, finish 'the man who would build spaceships', flesh out, pin intended, 'looking for a zpocalypse partner...

(These are terrible titles, you don't have to tell me so!)

Ben and Brenda plus Carol (because I need to have a Carol in my zpocalypse yarn, but her name is actually Brenda) and her son, Tom.

The spaceships thing is very loosely based on a tinkerer and dreamer, but not an incompetent loser! One who eventually gets to finish something at a terrible price.