entirely expected delays

So I was going to write a post Sunday, but I was tired after all the peopleing over the weekend, (and the hotel bed that was not great and the nois AC that was not great) so once we got home I watched TV and ate snacks and played on my tablet. And took some walks with Spouseman.

Then I was going to write a post Monday, but I woke up with a horrible case of Why Bother Who Cares, which I knew INTELLECTUALLY was the inevitable crash after a long and extremely enjoyable weekend in the company of Too Many Other Humans, but emotionally I was still stuck in the Land of Blah.

So I did not desk. I did put out all the outdoor Halloween decorations, and I finished the Backyard ditch-path-rain-drainage project, at least enough to go on with. I finished the decorating part just in time for the first of the long-delayed Autumn Rains to begin falling, and finished the ditch-digging part in the rain, which was much more pleasant than it might sound, being that it was still hot out, and I was beneath the canopy of the redbud tree so I didn’t actually get too wet.

There was also a rainbow.

And then I was going to do my usual “start the workday with a quickpost” today, only today started quite early with the quarterly Mouse Patrol due anytime after 7AM, which of course meant being up and functional at 7 even though as usual, Mouse Patrol Guy arrived around 8:45. So I ended up doing easily-interruptable activities all morning and then dove right into the actual desk work once I sat down in the office. (All the sheets and towels got laundered, and I did some organizing and tidying.)

Desk time was a major vidtory, though—I have an actual shop page on my website.

Yup, you read that right, kmherkes.com now has a bookshop page with ebook direct purchase AND links to the direct paperback purchase ecommerce pages hosted by my distributor, who can ship books much more easily and cheaply than I can.

Anyway. That took some doing.

Lastly, I was going to do my Official Weekly Blog tonight at work but ended up having a meeting with The Boss first thing (good meeting, regular update & checkin, just not on the dy I expected it) and then had a great chat with a co-worker during the time I would usually write.

Might get it done tonight, might not. Probably not. I’ll probably watch a bad movie, have tasty food and pet the cat. That’s a good way to wrap a successful day. Blog will happen tomorrow, though. Blog, and chili.

Because it’s finally cold out, which means it’s chili season!

That’s it for now.