Today was a gorgeous day. It’s the end of October, but it could have been late May. The sun shone, the grass smelt fine and alive. No, not that sort of grass. The green/springy kind.

Spent most of the today doing gardening work - digging borders, pushing a wheelbarrow, pulling out plants from beds, more digging, and also chopping at these gigantic roots of a mighty tree (the tree was in a neighbouring garden, and the roots had erupted in long trails along the lawn – I’m generally anti tree-killing or tree-hurting, but... like a camp guard would say, I was just following orders).

I ache quite a bit at the moment but also feel fairly mellow.

Now I intend to hit Perry with a few chess moves if he’s on, do some authoring (for once), crash out for a while, take part in something naughty that metaphorically involves copious erupting lava and results in my mind reverting to a state of infancy, and then curl up into oblivion – the paradox being the sweet sleep of the innocent.

Later, longer-term, I have a few things planned.

For one, I need to create a new journal somewhere – either on journalscape or somewhere else. While this journal is great for general updates and such, there are subjects that I just don’t feel comfortable discussing while the text is associated with my public face here. I mean... my sister could stray onto here, for chrissakes. So I’ll be creating a new anonymous journal somewhere on which I can feel free to let rip on any subject at all, without feeling any self-consciousness or restriction. You may bump into the new blog soon.

Secondly, I want to launch a new novel project to work on. I ended up losing the file for my last 70,000 word effort when my previous computer got trashed (stupidly, I’d made no backups). That crushed my enthusiasm for a long time, since it’d taken me a very long time and much effort, resulting in nothing at the end.

But now, I think it would be a positive thing to focus on.

Expect a few more short stories and/or novellas in the short term future also.

So… that’s my update for tonight. Nothing much substantial, but I though I’d let you good folks know that my mood is on quite an uplift the last couple of days.

I hope I can now sustain it.