Legends of Windemere

First, a video/song that is stuck in my head.  Felt the need to share:

I’ve been out of sorts since Thursday and doing my best to imitate being human.  Not sure how successful I was.  The reason for this is a nasty ear infection combined with a bunch of earwax that decided to camp out on the eardrum.  For anyone unsure of what this means, I’ll sum it up this way.  Hurts like a nail to the side of the head, equilibrium is shot, taste buds kind of off, deaf as a roll of toilet paper, exhaustion, confused, and it took an hour to write one paragraph for a Fizzle scene.  People seem to enjoy telling me what to pour into my head when I have ear problems too.  Well that and one friend reminding me of the brain bugs from Wrath of Kahn.  Needless to say, I haven’t done much writing since then.  I had to rush to a late night clinic, which helped out.  Then I returned today because the pain was getting worse and they flushed the ear.  Feeling much better if not a slight bit waterlogged.  Might finish that Fizzle thing tonight if two nights of terrible sleep wasn’t gnawing on my energy.

For more comedy, anybody that follows my non-author page on Facebook might have seen that this happened on the 10 year anniversary.  Plus side, my wife and I didn’t have anything planned until next weekend.  The reason is because the whirling dervish that I call a son had his first tumbling show today:

So we delayed everything to watch this.  His ADHD was in true form this time.  Put him in front of a crowd and he doesn’t care about orders.  He’ll just smile, jump, laugh, and try to sit with us instead of going with his group.  All in good fun and he enjoyed the Friendly’s lunch.  Hoping to get him into more gymnastics come the Fall.

Those are the big events of this . . . wait!  I forgot about Ichabod Brooks & the City of Beasts, which came out on Monday for 99cents and I’m sure everyone who loves me has bought a copy.  That really just means I bought a copy, so I hope those who politely tolerate my existence did the same.  The short story had a great first day and has kind of fallen asleep since Thursday.  Man, that day simply hated me.  A big thank you to everyone who has bought a copy and written a review.  I really appreciate it.

I will be a rarity next weekend!  So look for me on several guest posts, which I will comment on come Sunday or Monday.  I might be retweeting and responding to stuff on my blog with the help of my phone.  I’m just not allowed to bring the laptop.  Why is this in bigger font?  I hit a button by accident and am too lazy to fix it.

That’s better.  So what are the goals for the week?

1. Laundry and packing on Thursday.
2. Getting to ‘vacation’ spot in one piece on Friday.
3. See ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ and ‘Jurassic World’.  The first one was eliminated due to me not being able to hear things.
4. Continue writing Book 11 and pray I can get a good clip going to meet my June deadline.
5. Figure out why the screen keeps zooming in and a new window opens.  Am I touching the finger pad?
6. Fiddle a bit with whatever the idea on Monday is.  Can’t even figure out the genre, but it might be Post-Apocalyptic.  Not sure what counts as Dystopian.
7. Heal completely.
8. Try for some biking, which one should never do with an ear problem.  Not unless they surround the thing with pillows.
9. Ponder the existence of the pinky toe.  Do we really need it?

Going to finish up by asking a mild question.  Are there any characters that you want to see get a feature in the Teaser Tuesday?  I always find it hard to choose, so maybe help from the audience will give me an idea.  I do have this one set up though, so this is for the future.