Update Link: You're Not Sorry - Part 75 Thanks to the windchill, it feels like it's -12  and I am so done with winter.  The only slightly good news is we have a few days above freezing (37 mind you) coming and maybe some of this snow will finally melt. This is like 2010 when it snowed and snowed and snowed and stayed cold and by March, you're like, I forgot what grass looks like.

Update Link: You're Not Sorry - Part 74 Happy Friday 🙂 We're still packed in ice and snow and freezing our asses off here in South Jersey with temps supposedly lingering around 0 all day tomorrow. I am so done with winter. I mostly got everything on the list done this week, including the planned work on These Small Hours…

ALT: a woman is sticking her tongue out in front of a sign that says friday friday gotta get down on friday .

Update Link: You're Not Sorry - Part 73 I can't believe this stupid story is at more than seventy updates. Good grief. Trying to get myself prepped for the earlier weekend updates with baseball season heading our way. I miss my dummies hitting balls with sticks. Another update tomorrow might happen, but it depends on how much I get done the rest of the day -- I have some content prep to do, some household tasks I finally have the energy for, and I'd like to organize some time to relax, too, lol, so we'll see 😛

Update Link: You're Not Sorry - Part 72 I'm not sure how you guys further north than me do it. We've barely broken 20 degrees all week, and my house is so cold -- even with the heater running. The office has been especially cold because it has an extension that was built out over the porch decades ago -- and neither the porch nor the extension was properly insulated.

Update Link: You're Not Sorry - Part 70 TL;DR - I am sick again, but possibly recovering, who knows. Flash Fic today is not 60 minute timed, but 30 minutes because I don't think I can handle 60 minutes right now. If this works, we'll keep this up for tomorrow and hope to be back to normal sometime before the end of the decade.

Update Link: You're Not Sorry - Part 69 the recent updates page will be updated at some point this week, promise Apologies for not updating on Friday! I can't remember now if I mentioned it -- but I woke up with a sore throat last weekend, and it just got worse all week. I was worried I'd caught strep (on top of everything else!) Rapid test was negative, but the full test isn't back until tomorrow.

Update: You're Not Sorry - Part 68 Note: One of my goals this week is to update the Recent Updates page, archive 2025 and start the 2026 page. Happy Saturday! One more sleep until I return to normal working hours. Looking forward to getting back into the classroom now that I feel so much better than I did when we broke for the the holidays.

Update Link: You're Not Sorry - Part 67 Hello 🙂 If you're a member over on Patreon, I put up two free posts this week talking about some changes we're making in 2026. The first one is a longer, detailed talk about me and how things are going, and how it affects writing (about 50 minutes), and the second is about 10 minutes which goes over the changes with a basic explanation.

Update Link: You're Not Sorry - Part 66 Hey! Hope everyone is having a good day! This is a bit later than I wanted, but I had a busy day. Did a grocery run, recycled laptops that have literally been sitting around for YEARS (I was watching a declutter video and they're like hey, do you have electronics sitting around and I DID sooo) then worked on some content for January at work.

Update Link: You're Not Sorry - Part 65 I did a general status update over on Patreon, but I'm going to paste the contents here because it's useful and has some notes about where we're going from here. Patreon has a free tier that has some perks and benefits 🙂 It's a great way to support me and what I do here on the site and keeps me from needing a second job to make ends meet, especially in the summer.

Update Link: You're Not Sorry - Part 63 Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays 🙂 I'm officially on my winter break and very relieved to have nothing but time to rest ahead of me for the better part of the next two weeks. Apparently it can take up to six months to recover from pneumonia. If it actually takes me that long, I may throw myself off a cliff.