I know I've been a little quiet the last few weeks, and I wanted to address it with everyone - along with some thanks. I do appreciate your patience and kind words.

With respect to serial stories: I will try to post Friday. If I cannot, there should be a large Sunday post. Due to travel on Thanksgiving, I will not be posting on Thursday.

Sanitaria Springs: The next story up is 'Isn't it Bromantic? by Ryan Bartlet. Many of these stories were written out of order, and then we would post them in chonological order. On occasion, that meant some rewrites in order to take into account things that happened in between. For instance, with the torching of Lucien's bus and the subsequent replacement, that has to be mentioned going forward. Nicolai's arrival has to be accounted for in subsequent chapters, as well. So, not only do the stories have to go through beta and editing but they also need a touch up from someone other than the original author, in the case of Ryan's remaining work. I will get to that as quick as I can, with the edits and beta reads having been returned to me.

The Personal: My back is slowly, slowly coming together. In truth, I pulled it over a month ago and have been limping along. It finally just got so bad that sitting for long periods, then even short ones, was exceedingly uncomfortable. We also had something of an emergency here with the dogs. I was already having a Monday when I returned to discover that the pup and the Italian Greyhound had tangled and the IG had about a 2 inch tear on the top rear of his head, exposing all the muscle and viscera underneath. Traumatized the dog, me and my wallet. Our foster managed to fail everything but gym and science and has been acting out in school. He's been grounded until his grades come up, but that's a chore at home as many of you might know. The good personal news is my son, Blake, made honor roll and is doing very well in his transition to middle school. Also, very big news, we have found our second child. We have been looking for more than two years, and found a great kid - prophetically, perhaps, named Nicholas. We met him and have started visits and hope to transition him into living here and home with us before X-Mas. We had to buy a bunk bed, since we still have our foster, and U managed to yank my back around again putting it together.

On the bright side, we only fucked it up and had to disassemble three pieces en route to building it. Oh, and I've also lost 30 lbs on my diet.

So, dear reader, I'm sorry for the slow posting. These varied things have kept me away and I hope the vast majority of you understand and keep coming to check in via the Message board and the Facebook page as I will announce postings there as always. I will do my best to keep things fairly smooth, but I hope you'll indulge me a bit further as these many situations play out.

Thank you, and Happy Thanksgiving.