As I said somewhere today -- I don't remember if it was on Bluesky or in messages with Iain -- I have several longer things I want to write here, but the problem is, when I'm working on a story, any other thing I'm working on is time I begrudge ... and these days, and especially this year when I actually have a release schedule all planned out, I'm always working on a story.

Besides, all the longer entries I want to write are kind of depressing because they're about this shitpile reality we've all landed in, and nobody wants to read those. Actually, nobody wants to read any of this -- as I said in Maybe You Should Read This First, these entries are mostly for my brain, my personal needs, and if anyone else wants to read them, I consider that bordering on miraculous. This is another reason why stories should take priorities. I don't have a lot of readers but I do have some, and certainly more that would ever wander in here.

So, if you're one of the miraculous or masochistic few, you may have to wait a while before the pressure builds up enough that I have to expel some long piece of prose just to get it out of my system. Mental diarrhea.

This issue of Sleeper Squad is supposed to come out at the beginning of March. That means it needs to be finished by the beginning of March, that being how this works. It is not yet half finished, by my seat-of-the-pants estimate, but February is half finished. Actually, a little more than half. That means I am running behind.

There's a joke in there about the seat of the pants and a running behind, but I'll let you workshop it for me.