Bleh.

My new job was good for the first month... and then we lost half the department staff due, mostly, to retirement for one person and finding out she has ovarian cancer and needed to start chemo treatment for the other.

This has led to much overtime and scrambling effort for my remaining co-workers and myself. Combine that with a recurrence of personal medical problems that were supposed to be under control and I don't really feel like doing much of anything except for sleeping when I have free time.

My promised book that should have been out before the end of the year (and why would I promise something like that where the cosmos could hear me... I know better) is technically finished... but it still needs to be edited, and then probably re-edited. And then I'll stare at it for a while and say, "Why are they talking like that? No one talks like that!" and edit some more.

Truthfully, I'm not sure when it'll be done. I'm hoping soon. Preferably before the end of the month, but I'm not going to promise anything. I'm still working on it, just much slower than before.

Hopefully the next time I'm on here I'll have better news, but until then, take care of yourselves and have good luck in the new year!