Countdown Over!

Coco and SK5 (printed doublesided)

Today is my rotator cuff surgery.  My right arm will be in a sling for six weeks after, and I have fairly stern guidelines as to why I should not use that arm.  For this reason, I won’t be on-line much, and my responses to e-mails and Comments will be slower than usual.

No.  I won’t be using dictation software.  I wrote about why in more detail here, but the short answer is that after surgery my main job will be making sure I have a full and complete recovery.  I really don’t want to go through this again.  I’ve had a very painful time and before PT strengthened some of my other muscles so they could compensate, I had shifted to writing long hand since working on the computer was distractingly painful after a while.

My first job after will be reading through the manuscript of the fifth Star Kingdom novel.  David Weber sent me the file last Friday, and I’ve printed it out and put it in a binder so I can read without dropping pages all over the place.  However, I certainly am not going to be starting on this until I’m off major pain killers since my goal is not to amuse myself, but to give feedback to my collaborator and to do that, I need to have a clear head.

So, what will I be doing?  Sleeping a lot, I suspect.  Figuring out how much of my routine I can accomplish with one arm and a bit of very light use of the fingers of my right hand.  Reading.  If I have the energy, I have a thought about a craft project I can do with one hand, but whether I can waits to be learned.

For the duration, my website bookstore is closed, but you can still order e-books of most of my titles on-line.  As I mentioned last week, there’s a new edition of The Buried Pyramid available.  The novel is essentially the same, but there’s an extra content essay.

Jim and I hope to have him use the Wednesday Wandering to post updates, but since we don’t know how much spare time he’ll have, this is a hope, not a promise.  The same goes for the Friday Fragments.  I’ll certainly be reading, but I may not be able to update you every week.

Keep a good thought, and hopefully the time will pass quickly and I’ll heal well, and be back to my weekly posts really soon.