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Gods, I am doing TOO MUCH GAMING. Yes, today was a bit messed up, but I could have been doing so much more with my evening - and posting a blog entry is the least of it.

Right - bed-time. I don't think staying up any later will help things. A serious re-think of what I'm doing is called for, I believe.
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Chapter 2 of Lonely This Christmas is going to be late. The first few paragraphs are up as a taster, but the official release will have to be tomorrow.

Hey, it's Christmas, and I've had to deal with that, change plans on which story to write, AND find a new blogging solution...

Update...

I had to include this...

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That's it. I am not leaving this house again until its time to go back to work. A piece of office furniture expected next week arrived at the shop yesterday, and an excursion to pick it up became a "can you get -insert grocery item- while you're out" trip - and bang goes another afternoon, buggering up the momentum I had built up this morning. I would so like to leave out the "type-up" stage of things, but I write when I can, in whatever format is most readily available...

However, I may just be able to declare a disputed Mission Task completed:
83 - Get a good, solid, long-lasting office chair.
if assembly goes well this evening.

meanwhile... So, how far along is Chapter 3 of The Last Ride Of House Glitterthorn? Good progress has been made, and the whole thing could be done by bedtime, but I do have until 23:59:59 on January 1st to post the final part, and still make good on my posting schedule, to the word if perhaps not to the spirit.

Here's a promise: Chapter 3 posts at 00:01 on January 1st, one minute into the New Year.

If certain individuals will bloody well let me keep a damn promise...

Okay, I am officially sick of being irritated. I shall do my very best to avoid any further irritations for the rest of MY HOLIDAYS. Guess I'll be having several obscene lie-ins, then.
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Oh, for botherington's sake... Can I not have a day without going out to take three hours to do one hour's shopping? That's two days in a row pretty much eviscerated, and it's really tough to find sufficient time to get up a head of steam for writing. I may just have to sit up a while and try and make up for lost time - but already my concentration is waning. Grrrr...

Mustn't stress about it, even if it's bugging the crap out of me.

At least I had something to watch tonight: The Bleak Old Shop Of Stuff. Dickensian satire at its best!
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In Today's Episode... "Mane-of-Night: Flight 102 Is Overdue" reaches the end of Part Two; The Traveller explains what he has discovered, Mariella takes some unilateral action, and someone uncovers a problem inside Shadow City...

Release Notes... Look out, Yafornis - someone's coming...

In Our Top Story Tonight... Ordered 3rd December, delivery estimated 10th December, received 29th December - one book (Secret Invasion - Inhumans) and one CD (I Started Out With Nothin And I Still Got Most Of It Left - Seasick Steve; part two of my three-volume Christmas present for my brother).

Took long enough.

At least that's a minor worry off the 'scope now. Now I have even less reason to "bunk off" writing, now this is dealt with, and since I got Die Hard 2 polished off. No Ultima Online commitments tonight, so we'll see how things go.

Other Thoughts... The season finale of V certainly seemed to be setting up all kindsa fun. It'll be interesting to see what comes next - if Season Two's on a viewable channel, that is...
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Right, that's the last hurdle(s) before Christmas dealt with - although it didn't help to have a last-minute grocery/present dash, with only a couple of hours to go to Family Festive Lunch...

Finally the holidays begin. Excuse me if I "veg out" in the meantime - I am most definitely due a proper lie-in (and NO, waking up at 0730 doesn't mean that getting up at 1000 counts as a lie-in!)

Oh, and Royal Mail quite definitely coughed one up for the opposition. No Amazon parcel today means an incomplete Christmas for someone. Happy =/= me.

Meanwhile... Time for vegging, I'm feeling. I also have something in mind for New Year that I should make a start on. Not essential work, and not the special chapter I have planned, but it will be good to get it to work.

Maybe more later...
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In Today's Episode... "Mane-of-Night: Flight 102 Is Overdue" continues as Talona explains the situation to The Traveller and his companions, and Aestrauv covers his tracks as his plans progress... but that's not everything...

Development News... And that's Mane-of-Night's first scene "in the can", as well. I really am going to do my very best to keep on writing over The Holidays, if the fates allow - no, even if the fates don't allow. My hols, my rules.

So, what's this about holidays...? Yup, work is done for the year. Not that there was much actual "work" to do, or many people around to add to it. Hung around as long as I could, then excused myself. Next up, some wrapping, and tomorrow's get-together...

...agh, should I have got the new contract off for Work Slot 1 2011? I'm not 100% clear what the score is. Grrrr - there's always something...

Make that something else, 'cause there's STILL no delivery. Twenty days since the order, nearly two weeks since the alloted delivery date - Amazon are only as good as the people who deliver their stuff to the customer, and right now, a whole bunch of people are seeing broken promises that will hurt Amazon, not Royal Mail.

One more morning. That's all the time they get. Sad, but true...
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Christmas Update... Well that's all but one gift item acquired - pity the last is now TEN DAYS late, and may probably never appear in time. That's me never paying for postage at AMAZON ever again...

Development News... Coming Next - Mane-of-Night returns! Yes, Part 2 of The Secret Adventures of Mane-of-Night: Flight 102 Is Overdue is done, and the focus at last turns to Our Star. Exactly how her involvement will affect events... you have to wait and see when The Traveller's part is done...

The next chapter gets posted once I get settled down for the evening. Sunday Night Football awaits!

Update! Diaryland is down, so no posting today (yesterday). So, instead, here's a preview...
This is the Shadow City Mid-Day Report. Our top story today can only be one thing - the mysterious object that fell from the sky yesterday. No official word has yet been given by City authorities, which has led to rounds of wild speculation - some are fearing that we are on the verge of seeing a repeat of the incident that destroyed the city of the Tall Ones, whilst others have suggested that a new, and possibly experimental Skylance has suffered terminal malfunction, and fell out of the sky. The latter would certainly explain the presence at the main impact site of Lady Talona's personal air-platform, named, we believe "The Lady's Eagle". All attempts to get close to the site of the incident have so far been driven off by this vessel, or airborne operatives of The Explorer Corps....
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Not the best of days, and not worth expanding on. Snow that doesn't look like letting up all through Christmas, tech that has decided to stop doing what it was purchased to do, Christmas preparations are still being held up - oh look, I just went and expanded after all...

And the Redskins lost another close one. Really hoping this is the worst it gets.

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