It’s been a year. I am aware it’s not even mid-July but it’s been a year. It’s a year since Superman’s slowly fatal head injury. Six months was fucking insanity. At times, hilarious, but mostly awful. Then the next six months of getting stuff sold, bought, organised.
It’s also been a year since the home invasion. (Some of you might recall that particular hell.)
I’m still a little wary of breathing anything akin to a sigh of relief because I was living on adrenaline and amongst chaos for so long. (Far longer than a year if you recall the neighbours from hell.)
There’s been a lot of tequila pass my lips, over the last few years. Not gonna lie. (I love tequila.)

So, now I’m sitting in my own office, in my own house. No one associated with the traumatic bullshit of 2025 knows where we live and they never will. In fact no one from any of the absolutely bollocking nonsense from the last 5 years knows where we live.
It will stay that way. 🙂

This year I launched [Foxtrot Foxtrot Sierra] in April then went to Perth (for the first time since COVID). Then had all the sewer drains replaced here, a tree removed and several pruned, then got DVS installed. And I am done for a bit!
Although another toilet would be really helpful and I know where the best place would be, but that would involve a lot of $$$.
Maybe, sales will stay up? Then I could tend to that.

[Echo Mike Papa] will soft launch on the 30th/31st of this month. (July 2026)
Seems wrong to let it do that but I just don’t have another launch in me this year. I love them but it’s more stress and a logistics nightmare and I’m kinda tired. (It’s been a year.)
Doing nothing to mark the books release is breaking my own rules on writing. Writing a novel is not a simple thing to do, it’s not done on a whim, it’s a whole thing that takes over your brain until you boot it out and start a new story.
If it was easy everyone would do it, and we know they don’t/can’t. A lot of people start and give up, because it’s hard. Completing a novel and doing all the things that means it’s ready for the world – not easy or fast. It’s not a five-minute project! Not always enjoyable either. Sometimes it’s just plain hard work. Sometimes it’s gut wrenchingly sad. Sometimes it’s funny. Writing runs the gamut of human emotion. It’s exhausting.
Ignoring the achievement is silly. We need to celebrate our achievements more than we do.
Maybe for [Echo Mike Papa] I’ll just have some friends and neighbours over for cake and drinks??

If I get [Indigo Delta Kilo] finished there will be a proper launch next year. (Fingers crossed.) The first draft is sitting on chapter sixteen at the moment – it’s happening albeit rather slowly. (About 25k.)

Meanwhile, I should be writing. 🙂 🙂

The next big thing for our family is Doris’s 21st in December. We’re thinking cocktail party. So, I’ll be stocking up on supplies over the next few months.
We have a house big enough to hold her 21st. We live in a safe neighbourhood with great neighbours.

Right. Time to tackle Ronnie and Crockett, I need to plant some new tech in this story. That’s not quite right, it’s there but now they’re working out what it does.