I expect my blogging to be lite for a while. Being so close to the end of a project is a special time and time when that project begins to consume everything in my poor little head.

So for next 2-3 weeks I expect most of my energies will be taken up with Love & Loyalty, after that a bit of decompression with a Tim Powers Novel.

Well, I am home alone because my cold has returned.  I though I had completely lost this bug, but Thursday night I started getting congested again, yesterday I felt bad and today I just want to stay home and do nothing strenuous.

That is a shame because a friend is throwing a party and I really wanted to go. However every time I bend over I get dizzy and frankly it is a boorish guest who brings pathogens.

On the plus side I did finish a chapter of edits today. Normally I do not do writing work on the weekend, using these two days to recharge my spirits, but as I near the end of project it starts taking over.

I have now edited 323 or 404 pages from Love & Loylaty, then I will have another 40-60 from the inserts to edit and compile into their proper places. The End is in sight.

So Saturday concert was pretty fun. The venue was a small club and I had reserved a table for myself. (The sweetie-wife does not care for most of my music and that include Sheena Easton.)  I got there early enough to order a small diner before the show, and ended up chatting with the lady at the table next to mine. (She recognized me from thr Vegas show I went to last September.)

Sheena came one and this time I had a very good appraisal of just how tall, or rather how short that lady is. My friends Sheena Easton is a hobbit. However she looked good, in fact she looked better than she did in Vegas, so either I caught her on a bad night, bad lighting, or my eyes were out of whack. This time I was nearly level with her and maybe 15 feet away at most. The set was mostly her big hits, but she mixed it up a bit and added a few songs from lesser known albums.

Afterwards I headed hom and enjoyed a nice desert of donuts since it was a night of my diet.

Sunday was a relaxing day with board and card games in the evening and yesterday my sweetie-wife and I went to the zoo, but sadly no crane chicks yet. (I think when the cranes chicks hatch one should be name Charles Foster Crane.)

Yesterday I even got another chapter of Love & Loyalty edited and tonight I expect I might get two more done. I am now hurtling towards the end of first-pass edits. After that is system integration as I shove the new bits into their places in the script, then a read through to make she integration went smoothly, then a copyedit pass by my sweetie-wofe and then finally beta-readers.