Knocked for a Loop

Around mid-month everyone started getting sick, and it kept getting worse.  Complicating it, someone thought the diaper rash on the bottom of the younger boy looked like a handprint, and called child services, and so atop everything else I was required to supervise the parents whenever they were with the children.  It took about a week to get that rescinded, and I expect the kids had a blast going with me to the laundromat and the grocery store, but their mother did not, and in retrospect it was a bit draining.  By the last week of March into the early days of April I was exhausted but still had the workload of caring for my temporarily invalid wife--who also spent the better part of the month trying to get her health care coverage fixed so she could see her orthopedist and get the physical therapy she was supposed to be having months ago.

I managed to keep up on most of the regular stuff through the end of March; I have some catching up to do from April Fool's Day, which I hope to do tonight.  Con Version continued with chapters 164 through 173, with another behind-the-writings mark Joseph "young" web log post #518:  Versers Plan looking at chapters 157 through 168 and the continuing stories of Tomiko Takano, Brian Cooper, and Derek Brown.  The Chaplain's Bible Study at the Christian Gamers Guild continued with Mark 15:13 through 24, plus Quotes ##265, 266 and Quotes ##268, 269, 270, 271 .  Quotes continued daily despite my difficulties, and the guild published RPG-ology #88:  Celebrations , another recovered Game Ideas Unlimited article reviewing other articles in that series and discussing why and how we celebrate.

My notes suggest that I made some progress on An Analytical Commentary on The Book of II Corinthians, Verse a Tile, and When Verse Comes to Versed.  On the last of those, I'm afraid we had just hit a snag regarding how Derek was going to overcome a technological problem when I became too sick to work on it, and I'm aware that my collaborator Eric Ashley has added something to the text since then, but I haven't yet seen it. 

Despite this, I added two other features to my workload.  One is that looking for article ideas I started listening to something called The Min/Max Podcast, which has paid off at little cost, as I listen while driving, sometimes getting changed, and sometimes changing bandages.  It might be cutting into my Netflix time a bit, but that's not an issue.  The other is I accepted a somewhat pressured invitation to join a self-published writers support group, and have been checking posts there a couple times a day.  Maybe I'll provide links to those sometime; I'd rather delay each of those for different reasons.

I think at this point if I've omitted anything, it's forgotten, and you can find it on social media and particularly my Patreon blog.