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Monday's my day off. As I work from home, I find that I have less time on weekends and public holidays than on weekdays, as I generally get co-opted into housework and shopping stuff. Hiding away in my computer room isn't as much of an option. Nor should it be - I'm a father and husband, after all.

Feeling particularly seedy after the tongue episode on Sunday night, so I spent Monday morning in bed with a book and a cat, rising in early afternoon to get some work done, like filling orders and posting books. And checking on the support line.

I'm flying up to Brisbane for the Convention in a couple of weeks, and I checked my Frequent Flyer page this morning, just to browse around. Noticed that two of my recent flights haven't been credited yet - two big chunky flights from London to Fort Worth and Fort Worth to San Francisco. The miles would be nice, but it's the status points I'm really after, because combined with the flights to Brisbane, they should get me a silver card. This has some small benefits, the biggest being that I build up FF points at a higher rate, but I also get faster check-in and an extra piece of luggage, which will be handy on domestic flights and to and from New Zealand.

Ok. Enough daydreaming! Best sign off now. I've got work to do.

Crisis and Climax

More Squirty Bertie news. I've been thinking hard about the plot and I've found a crisis point leading to a climax that ties in with the rest of the story. It ties in very well, actually, once you see the second chapter - which I haven't completed yet. Builds up the tension nicely. Those of you who know how the story ends, you might be surprised!

I can see I'm going to have to do a fair bit of research on comatose and brain dead patients to get this to hang together, otherwise the second half is going to be fairly soggy. And I think I can re-use a certain character from Manly Books. I've just discovered his sister, sitting slumped in a chair.