Those of you who have been ridiculously dedicated to the progress of Immortal will know that it was been almost a full year since there has been any forward momentum on the book.

About this time 2010, I finished writing my very, very rough draft and set it aside for what I thought would be a few weeks. Ultimately, life got in the way and a few weeks turned into a solid year of me doing things completely unrelated to writing. As of yesterday, I’ve finally picked up the red pen and started a concerted effort to edit this 400 page novel into something I can be proud of…

Given how much red ink and thematic and plot related issues I have to tackle, I’m sure this is just edit one of three or four. Regardless, work has begun again and I’ve tweaked the progress meter on the right to reflect the difference in job.

The percentages are the same, though it’s now based on percentage of pages edited instead of words. The word count is still the same, mostly so I can see that OMGWTFBBQ icon a little more often now…

If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment.

Anyone who still takes a look at this sad, abused little site probably noticed an interesting AVH error stating that your IP was currently being blocked by the AVH anti-spam project.

I’m not entirely sure what happened as of right now, but I can tell you that it most certainly was not the case.  As close as I can tell, it looks like one of two things happened:

1. Someone hacked my site so that I would request a removal of my “home” IP address from the AVH project; or
2. AVH flaked out on me in the middle of a blacklist.

From what I can see thus far, I’m leading toward ’2′.  I couldn’t find any indication that there had been any unauthorized access to the site and besides the unwelcome error, everything appeared to be in place.

Regardless, I wiped out the site and restored from a backup just to be safe.

And to be even safer, I deleted any unusual left-over accounts and changed passwords.

Oh, and I made sure I’m all patched back up.

I guess we’ll see what happens next.  Ta for now.

Kind of.

Mostly I just drive a whole heluva lot right now.  While I’m not currently commuting each and every day to Syracuse from Richfield Springs, I feel like I might as well be.  I’m never quite relaxed and I tend to sleep badly when I’m not in a static location…

The good news is that if the sellers of that house I mentioned agree to the terms we just sent back (post-inspection and appraisal), we should be moving in by mid-July.

I’m very much looking forward to that.  :)

It seems like I put up one of these every few months… and this one is right on schedule.

Here is a quick summary of my life for those interested:

* We put an offer on a house, they countered, we accepted and we’re waiting on some repairs to be finished before we send in a home inspector. Fingers crossed on that.

* The job is going great… that’s about all to talk about there.

* I *still* don’t have new tires for my motorcycle…

Sadly, that’s all I have right now. I’m getting prepped to go out to Boston for the next few days again, so, barring any other drug deals, I will probably be off the grid until Thursday or Friday.

Bye!