So... three and a half weeks, huh? God it doesn't seem that long.
Friend was sick, ended up having to fill in for him at my part time gig for a week and a half. That ate some serious time out of my day.
Then had to start a new project: converting a shed into what's effectively a tiny-home for an acquaintance.
Winter storms hit after that. The last week's been... not fun. Haven't had a proper shower in three days, nearly. My home town, if you can believe it, decided to use baked clay valves on all the water mains. Got down to about 3 degrees F (negative 16 C for everyone else) on Monday night and everything just turned so brittle they shattered. Power's stayed on, though, so that's been nice. Still have heat, too, unlike a lot of people next door in Texas like my brother. He just got his power back on yesterday night, so that's been less-bad than it could have been.
Good news for you guys is that I haven't stopped writing in the interim or anything. Just kind of felt like writing horror for a while. Gee, wonder why? So I started this new MHA quest over on QQ. That's been keeping me busy when I'm not kind of listlessly staring at the frozen winter wasteland that's eaten basically everything outdoors.
I still don't know about when I'm going to have an update out for this quest. I'm hoping sometime in the next week. Have to see what happens, though.
...ah, you poor naive fool, past-me. You stupid, stupid son of a bitch.
So, yeah. Originally this went on hiatus because I was trying to get used to working two jobs. I've mentioned the card and games store here a few times, I think, and that's still going. Me filling in for my sick friend all those months ago turned into something more permanent as our online footprint increased in size and we started shipping more orders. With Covid getting less awful, generally, we also had the opportunity to open up the shop for customers on weekends.
Still, it's a small business. Three employees, counting the owner/manager. So if one of us were to get seriously ill or have an accident, the workload would substantially increase on the other two.
Like if my friend got hit by a bus. Just... as an example.
(Not just an example. He had a concussion and dislocated his shoulder, spent some time in the hospital, still has awful vertigo. It was completely the bus' fault and litigation is ongoing.)
This, in turn, would mean that I'd have to work six out of seven days of the week and be exhausted on my seventh day of rest. So, again,
hypothetically I wouldn't have the kind of energy or focus needed for a
very detailed CKII quest like this.
Anyway, on the
good news front, my friend's recovered enough that he's coming in for short shifts again and helping out. Which he can do as long as he doesn't stand for long intervals. It is my
fervent hope that by the new year he'll have gotten to the point where he can take a shift or two back and I can return to having enough time off that I can pursue my writing hobby like I used to.
I'm still fairly active on QQ and my patreon, though, so check me either of those places if you want to see what I've been working on. These are mostly low effort easy self-insert things I can pick up and put down when I get a spare second or two.
...all of this isn't meant to come off as an excuse or anything, just an explanation for the extremely long wait time for continuation. I still fully intend to return to the quest and give it
some kind of conclusion in the future.
PS: To his wife, who I know follows and reads this quest and will see this alert...
it isn't urgent he returns to work full time. I'm happy that he's recovering and don't want to endanger that progress, so please make sure he knows to pace himself.
PPS: For that matter, you need to take it easier too. Those long shifts you've been pulling are a killer. I know this is pot-kettle-color-concerns, but chill time is important. See you and your husband Sunday for dinner.
