I crawled out from under the order landslide, taxes and coding for sixteen hours stretches just in time for the Wife to leave me. She bolted, bound for Connecticut with two strange men in a van stuffed with enough provisions for days. Never fear. This journey is husband approved. In fact, I was glad she went. Her destination – a leadership seminar, the two strange men – coworkers. Truly, I am a man of the Aughties.

Work on Velocity resumes after four days of non stop Buddhapuss Book business ( gasp ). After staring at code for a few days the road home to coherence is fraught with punctuation lesson. For instance, semi-colons are not substitutes for periods. A good rule I should think, and one I understand on an instinct level. But after pouring out a few thousand lines of code where all “statements” end in semi-colons, I caught myself writing this gem:

velocity.write( true );

Clearly things are returning to normal. A new short story will appear in the next 1-2 weeks, the exact date depends on sales.