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Chapter 65 of Victory Tour has been submitted to the posting queue.
After five weeks in rehab and two back home, I'm slowly getting to where I can do some work. Typing is still difficult, but it's getting better. Now, I just need to get the story moving faster. The chapter I just completed for Patreon was over 28,000 words. I usually aim for about 10,000. Getting back to that pace will lead to more posts. So, fingers crossed!
Alured de Valer
OK, time for the latest installment of the soap opera that is my life.
Sunday afternoon, I had things all set up to work on newspaper stories fully expecting to knock out five or six. But first, I needed some lunch. Which meant taking a shower because it was much less trouble to swing by Dairy Queen for a burger than fix something myself.
Then the fun started.
Dropped the soap. Tried to pick it up. Got off-balance. Wound up on my ass, unhurt but unable to get to my feet on wet tile.
A neighbor found me almost exactly 24 hours later. The shower ran full hot the entire time. I was able to drag myself out of the spray, but still couldn't get up. Prolonged exposure to intense heat left me with something called rhabdomyolosis. I was hauled off to the nearest decent hospital (40-45 miles away) Monday night and am still there.
I've been told it will probably take at least two weeks at a rehab facility to even be able to stand, let alone walk, without someone holding onto me. Since I already need a cane to walk, I'm looking at either hiring a live-in caregiver or moving to another town with some kind of assisted-living facility and never going outside by myself again.
I have no idea what my plans are moving forward. I think the newspaper career is over. It's taken me more than an hour to compose this little bit. There's no way I could do a dozen articles every week on a deadline.
I have mapped out things for the next chunk of the story, but writing, editing and posting will be a slow process. Maybe the situation will improve if I can return to a more work-conducive environment.
One thing I am sure of is Gary Robinson isn't done. Dude hasn't even tapped all his girlfriends yet. He still has virgins to deflower.
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Chapter 63 of Victory Tour has been submitted for posting.
I also received an email from a reader here at SOL that he was charged more than $500 and his credit card info sold when he tried to register at my Patreon page. I assure all that I am not involved in anything like that.
For any of you who have registered at my page, I advise you to have your cards checked. I don't know what may have been hacked, my Patreon account or his card, but I understand the guy's outrage. I have contacted Patreon about the matter.
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Chapter 62 of Victory Tour has been submitted for posting. Gary sure has a lot to deal with on a simple Saturday. Whatever happened to the days of just taking your girl to the malt shop?
On a personal note, minor changes afoot at work. We'll just have to see how they impact my side project.
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Chapter 61 of Victory Tour has been submitted for posting. I'll submit a chapter each time I get one finished. Right now, I've got about a 25-day gap between what I've posted and what I'm working on. I need to maintain that.
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