Insomnia
Still alive
I'm just goofy enough (mild fever, lack of sleep) that my brain is now treating me to “Still Alive” from the Portal Franchise. You can thank me for the earworm later.
So. Things are going to be changing around here. The votes are in and tabulated and “Yours (somethingly), Kai won. So, from tomorrow (today for me), we'll be “Yours sharingly, Kai.”
I'll also be writing here more. If it doesn't fit elsewhere, it'll post here. Mostly free. If it's free, it'll crosspost to my (gulps) 21 year old, next month, blog. Paid stuff will be a minimum exclusive of two weeks. Or permanently exclusive (well, until it goes into a publication, I guess).
The categories are getting a review too, and will align slightly more with my blog.
Why?
It's not all that easy to answer, other than I'm on antibiotics x2, antivirals, pain meds, am waiting for my leg to clear up, have a double ear infection, a possible chest infection (or at least, a cough that sounds like I'm drowning in snot, without the runny nose), shingles narrowly held at bay on my face but still insanely sore, and generally, feel like my body has failed my death save, and several CON checks and I'm upright through willpower alone.
It's so bad that he actually suggested I might wanna test for Covid (I did, I'm clear). The problem is, one of the antibiotics they've given me doesn't play nice with migraine prophylaxis, aka amitryptaline and clarithromycin. And it's just the way that I can't risk (those constant readers that have known me a while will know I mean Long QT), aka, if my heart explodes, I want it to be because of teh cutes, not a stupid meds interaction that messes with my ‘electrics’. So, conversations to be had, I guess, tomorrow. First dose seems fine. But, by the time it's “not fine”, Tempus will be away.
I guess I'm trying to focus on the good. Not the potential bad. And build stuff that makes me happier.
On that note, I got through the edits. More work to do, but I feel like it's all burnishing now. So… books are coming, very soon.
It might work. The whole “positive thoughts”, I mean. Tomorrow (later today), I'm thinking of talking about gratitude. I think it already did the junk food for the brain thing (if not, look out for it), and I wanna start talking about storytelling - looking first at Andor, which I've just finished. I have thoughts. Some of them as fever bright as I feel right now. Others, just embers. I'll be working through all of it.
I have a plan. Ish.
Yours hopefully,
Kai