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Got a little carried away and didn’t write a blog post this morning. So the alarm at 2 as I was driving to the hardware store was a jolt. After 4 now and possibly in the process of getting my shit together.

Near a I can tell, I haven’t been Raptured. Nor has anyone else but Robert Redford, for what it’s worth. We’ll check in again next week, just in case.

Not a lot to say, but that’s exhaustion of spending the hot afternoon putting screens on the gutters finally, so that they MIGHT NOT plug and clog when the rains start. No leaves around here, but a metric shitton of pine needles and they get in there and I end up having to go out in the rain with a ladder and stick a hand in the cold muddy water to pull the gutter clean.

Hoping not this winter.

Writing: Finished RAN Stormhawk last week and started Scattered Tribes 3.

Am also in the process of test-driving two new copy editors after my last one passive-aggressive quit on me this last spring. Hopefully, both will work out and I can have better confidence in things I put out than having a couple of First Readers (both good, but not perfect) look at things.

Am exhausted, so not a lot of words at the moment. Writing is going well, I just haven’t slept all that great the last couple of nights and shit has ground me down a little. Fell asleep early last night and slept the usual 630 this morning. Might do that again in a few hours.

What are you going as for Halloween?

shade and sweet water,

b

West of the Mountains, WA

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