I've been quiet long enough that people are starting to write to me asking if I'm still alive. So I thought I'd bring things up to date.
I finished a new book and Andy has it for editing. He has some other things on his plate, though, so it's unknown when I'll get it back and be able to post it.
On the neuropathy-and-my-hands-don't-work thing, I'll tell you how ridiculous it's gotten. I've always been a touch typist, and I look at the paper/screen as I type. With the neuropathy, I can't feel the keys anymore, and I make zillions of mistakes by either hitting the wrong key or hitting two at once.
A particularly frustrating issue is when I miss a "c", "x", or "z" and hit Alt, Fn (function) or the windows keys. That tends to take me places I have to then get out of to get back to typing. So the fix I came up with was to hot-glue the Alt, Fn and windows keys so they can't be pushed anymore. The same thing was happening on the right side, so I glued those, too.
I told you it was ridiculous.
But it lets me type. Now all I have to do is make constant corections to words like the one five words ago, which should have been "corrections". Just to show you what that looks like, I'll describe the new book without making any corrections. Here goes.
It's called "The Profeassor's Nannies" and it'w about fifteen chapters long. Basically a professor hires two college girls to take care of his infant chiold and the hijinks take off from there.
Actually, that wasn't too bad. I cheated a little bit and looked at my hands while I typed it. Of course whenIm writing a book, there's more tyo put on the opage, and therfore more mistakes to correct later on. So it goes slowly, but I eventually get thingsl eoone.
Okay. I'll stop there. You get the idea.
Thanks for your patience.
Bob