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Monday was a fun day.

In the morning, I was sitting half curled in one of our armchairs, as is my wont, chatting to the husband and finishing my breakfast.  As I stood up I felt a slight twinge in my back, which has become the weirdest and most irritating back pain I've ever had.  When I'm sitting or standing, it's fine.  But the action of standing or sitting produces agony.  It is, very slowly, getting better.  But I am so over it, now.

I also managed to get the cover art for Mannerley to behave on my work PC.  Yay!!!  I have ordered a proof copy, which takes 3-5 working days.  Last Monday was, of course, a holiday in the US.  And it's got to make its way across the Atlantic.  Can't wait to actually hold MY book in my hands!!!

The rest of the week has been all about standing upright in about 3 stages, having Ideas about how my gamer colleague and I can shape the PMO, and playing FF8R.

I am also having Ideas for Nano '19.  I've always had ambitions to write a series, so I am going to use November to sketch out what that might look like.  5 books in 50k words - we'll see how that goes.


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 So, it's Graduation Week for the University, my favourite week of the year - work-wise at least.  Everyone is doing their best, and everyone is smiley and happy.  Lots of girls in too-short skirts and too-high heels; lots of boys in three-piece suits. And mums in fascinators and dads in ties they don't usually wear.  It's great fun.

My line-manager is on leave this week but he's told me to get in touch if I need anything as he's at home decorating.  He's still the best line-manager I've ever had.  Of course, at some point, he's going to do something that doesn't suit me but, for now, everything's good.

I've been through Death of an Ice Cream Seller and added some bits to beef up what is now the main secondary plot - the security around the exchange of the jewel.  McNeal is going to be getting in Langley's face A LOT and that is really going to wind her up.  Today, I've begun writing the history of the trading post because I need to understand the political boundaries - what are the Chancellor's areas of responsibility? what are Langley's?  Why has a human been appointed?

And I'm pretty much done with Witcher 3, at least for now.  I've spent the last few days doing some random sidequests (including finding a missing hairdresser - LOL) and exploring question marks on the maps.  It doesn't really feel like I've finished - but tomorrow is all about FFXII:ZA.  I am going to download it as soon as I get up in the morning, after my experiences with FFXV.  It probably won't take nearly as long to install but I'm out on Wednesday night, and I don't want to have to wait until Thursday to play.  Yes, I'm VERY excited.  Leave me alone.

We had a nice quiet weekend as the grandson was at some family do on his dad's side.  I did want to try to get to Despicable Me 3 next weekend but my mum and stepdad are coming down.  So, the weekend after...

OK, that's all for now.

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