I have the intro done. I have the About This Issue finished. The Interview has not yet shown up, so I'm putting a placeholder into the spot. It's not Victoria's fault -- I got the questions to her very late. I'll hold off on posting the new issue until tomorrow, in case she has a chance to get them done.

Right now I'm doing the 'Good News' section. That's it. I can then get back to the novel.

Russ is washing clothes and general getting things ready for his trip. He leaves about 8am tomorrow and won't be back home until around midnight on the 5th. Sigh.

I'm going to have to do a lot of writing to keep myself busy.

Is everyone going crazy?

In the last couple days I've had to deal with some incredibly rude people, and not all of them on line. I'm beginning to think that there's some sort of summer flu going around. The rude flu! That's it!

At any rate, I wasted far too much time last night dealing with someone who isn't going to be part of the FM site anyway, so why did he keep emailing me? Each one ending with an 'I'm leaving the site' note. He didn't like what someone told him. (shrug) As it happened, the person got a warning as well, all within five minutes of the posts being pointed out... but he was still rude and irrate about how the site had not protected him from this person.

We aren't there to protect you. We have rules that are made to make it difficult for someone to take the problem outside of the boards, but if you are going to post in ways that will draw attention to your personal problems, then you are going to have to be prepared to have someone tell you how to fix them.

But anyway, that took time that I really didn't have last night. So now....

I am missing one big piece of Vision. I'm going to put the issue up without it, I think, and if it comes in, add it in when it arrives. That's one of the great joys of on line stuff.

Russ is putting my new window AC unit in today. He leaves for New York tomorrow and won't be back until the 5th. So we have things to do. That's going to take more time, of course.

But I'm getting there!

I've done some work on the novel tonight. At the moment I'm entering a short scene earlier in the book, and the I'll get to those last few pesky pages. I hope.

Russ leaves for New York on Thursday and won't be back until the 5th so we have a great deal to get settled. I may be even farther behind than I thought, but I'm working at it.

I'm tired. I hate feeling this way, and I think a lot of it is just a reaction to seeing the pile of work I still have to do before July 1 is over.

I really think I'm starting to get tired just looking at the list of work. LOL

But at least I'm making a dent in it!

I believe I have all the pieces of Vision put together. That is all the pieces that I already have. There are still a couple things I need to do (Good News, About this Issue, my note) and I'm waiting on one more piece that's still out.

But I did it. And I got the short story out. And now I can get back to the novel without feeling as though I really should be doing something else.

Of course I have a number of more things to do for the site. But still, I at least got the majority of work done for Vision.

Stick to the plan! ARGH!

If I would just stick to the plan of what I need to get done, I would actually get there, you know.

On the other hand, I did see a submission possibility with a very limited time frame, and leapt at it, so that's not entirely bad. I doubt what I sent will work for what she wants, but better than not trying. Besides, that does take care of the second submission for the month.

I have gotten about six pieces of Vision done, too. So it's not that bad. Oh, and remembered to transfer the last issue over to the back issues files so I can upload them.

Really, I shouldn't complain. I got the story out. I had to do a quick rewrite on it because stories are never as good as I remember them to be. Not a surprise there.

But it's done. Time to go back to work on Vision. I think I can get a good amount of the issue put together yet this afternoon. It's not that difficult! (grin)

So, back to work again!