bloodyrosemccoy | Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

Well, I’m back. Feeling better, too, despite the cat’s failure to also be back. It sucks, but I’m no longer breaking down crying every few hours. Nothing makes you philosophical like a grand vista and the calming presence of nature.

Granted, the presence of roughly eleven million tourists I could have done without.

I did try to fill the hole Charlie left in my heart with bacon while I was there. The bacon could not fill the metaphorical hole, but I'm pretty sure it at least clogged a couple of arteries.

Seems to have done Mom good, too. We have both lost something, and we are both still quite unhappy about it, but hey! We are also both semi-functional again!

Anyway, now that the insanity, both awesome and awful, of the last few weeks is, with any luck, behind me, what’d I miss? Did you guys have any shakeups while I was gone? Personal triumphs? Fortunes won? Fortunes lost? Natural disasters? Fandom implosions? Now is the time to catch me up!

Man, and I’ve got to catch up, too. Maybe I should finally go back to that “work” thing that seems to keep me from losing all my money, ask y’all if my Supplement Income With Junk plan has any possibility of succeeding, and keep on top of all that shit you gotta do if you wanna be an author.* Not to mention my stack of unread library books and that meme I’ve had from

nobleplatypus sitting around for, like, two months now. I got things to keep me busy.

Life goes on. I just hope it does it QUIETLY for a while.

*I have a two-pronged approach to That Shit right now: agent queries for Doctors!, and, because like any writer I have come to believe that my current work is COMPLETE GARBAGE, writing something totally different. Just before everything exploded last week I managed to complete notes on the structures of the OGYAFE books 2-4, and at this early stage the entire quartet still sounds halfway decent! Get back to me around the end of the third book, though …