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I'm in the locker room at halftime in the league championship final, so have made good progress on Ch. 82 despite work, again, chewing up a lot of my time. I cannot help but grudge the extra work, but I won't mind the resulting pay check. I'll probably get this chapter posted on or shortly after the weekend and might get Ch. 83 posted before next weekend. At least, that's my current plan. However, after that, a bunch of work travel will keep me away from Beth's universe for a week or ten days. It's funny. Prior to starting down Beth's path, I always loved all the time I spent traveling for work. In fact, it was one of the main attractions of my position. Then I got used to having little travel and, for nearly half a year, little in the way of OT on the job. I began begrudging the extensive OT and work travel once I started to write these stories. Them's the breaks.

Even many/most of the most-skilled writers here don't use pronouns correctly, and their mistakes get past numerous editors. I just don't get it. [See previous post: Me and Julio....]

I've gotten in quite a few hours today on getting Chapter 80 going and have made good progress with the Petaluma game. I hope to have the chapter written and edited before mid-week next week. May the stars align to make it so.

Sorry, all, for not keeping you apprised. Work has gotten hectic, but my most-recent work-related publication is the primary culprit in not uploading new chapters. I had to do a major re-write on a paper and it took much longer than it should have. It's submitted now, so once the work-work part of my life settles down -- in a few days? -- I'll be able to to get back to the Beth Universe.

As I noted in a previous post here, work was quite hectic in the last half of June, hence I posted no chapters of Beth or any of its offshoots. However, in that time period I also made the mistake of discovering aroslav's "Living Next Door to Heaven" (LNDTH) books. "Mistake" not because they were horrible, but because they are far too good and far too engrossing. When I crack a new book (literally or figuratively) that immediately grabs my attention and keeps a stranglehold on it, I tend to read and read 'til there ain't no more to be read, which often results in nights with little sleep. I was also intrigued by how many aspects of Beth were shared by aroslav's tour de force. Rather, given that LNDTH predates Beth by more than half a decade, how many aspects LNDTH shares with Beth.

While I've managed to pull myself back from the addiction for a bit, despite not having finished book 2, I'm also still wrestling with the timing and pace of the changes that have been coming to the Go5, even the Go6, in recent chapters. Often when that sort of thing happens, I can easily distract myself with minutiae. This time, it's the structure of the state high-school soccer tournament and how far into it Central High goes.

I've promised myself to take a break from LNDTH to bear down on solving my technical problems with Beth. Hopefully, I'll get Chapter 78 posted in the near future.