Not according to plan

So I'm working along, facing my third deadline extension, way behind on everything, with lots of vital-or-at-least-urgent non-writing stuff going on. I FINALLY get past the exceedingly sticky argument scene I've been poking at for the last two months, and on into the next bit of wandering-around-the-settlements. I've done the go-to-dinner-and-whine thing several times, and I'm pretty sure I know what comes next. I have the scene, I have the characters, I have the technology. Life is good.

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