oyster50: Blog

Working from home. Yes, I'm in the final year before retiring from my real job.

Significant other is a teacher and schools have been closed for a couple of weeks now. This is MY first week of working from home, which is fine for paperwork, but my other job functions require me to travel over a five-state (and more) area to support a lot of locations. So far, I have had none of those issues. Living in the same house as Sweetie is interesting, though.

No, I haven't given up on writing. I will do something shortly. I promise.

A chaper of Haley's Bunch is going to the editor when I get home today. And I'm getting cranking up a chapter of Community after that.

I need to see what happens to my girls.

First, thank you to all who've written, asking about my status. I appreciate it.

Second, I fared quite well in the face of record-breaking rainfall from Tropical Storm Imelda. I'm in Southwest Louisiana. The real flooding started at the Texas border, twenty miles or so west of me. Those folks are facing a repeat of what Hurricane Harvey did only two years ago.

Third, concerning my writing - yes, the stories go on in my head, and yes, I will return to writing, it's just that new girlfriend (a term that does NOT adequately portray her status) is more fun than writing. We're working out our spaces and times together and somewhere in there is writing time. Cindy and the gang will go on, at least for a while.

Other stories hover in the far reaches of my mind, as well. We'll see...

To those of you patiently (more or less) waiting and wondering:

Four months into a relationship with Sweetie. This one, unlike the last, has time for me. I like that - going places, doing things. Life as a couple is a good life. Wanna know what she's like? The attitude and wit shows up in the person of Gee in Dorable.

However, the relationship has cut into my writing. I'm still at it. I just sent a chapter of Community - Moving On to the editor. Give him a few days and it'll post.

Sweetie is a teacher and school starts up in a couple of weeks. That'll leave me with time to myself, time I used to devote to writing, so the writing will return.

To all of you who asked - Hurricane(Hah!- barely Category One) Barry cost me a couple of days' effort because we found out we had a bad emergency generator at one station, and there were a few other issues, but nothing requiring hard effort. At home all we got was rain. A little community fifteen miles north of us got an official 23+ inches in 24 hours. We didn't even get full ditches.

Those of you asking about my health, I am pretty healthy for a 69 year old fat man. Most serious issue I have right now is cataracts and I'm seeing about surgery options this week.

As always, I thank every one of you for reading.

Oyster

I know it's been a while since the last chapter posted.

Lot of water under the bridge since then.

New lady in my life. VERY good change. Suddenly I'm not spending endless evenings at home alone. Of course, the downside is that those 'home alone' evenings were where I did most of my writing. New lady knows of this writing, so we're okay with picking it back up again.

I would've posted yesterday but I was attending the memorial service for my younger brother who left us June 1. Just because something is expected doesn't make it easy when it happens.

Anyway, I just posted a chapter of Haley's Bunch and there's a chapter of Community on the burner.

And to the dozens of you who sent me wishes a good luck and who inquired about my absence, my sincere thanks. I appreciate it.