I'm sorry about the gap. I'll try not to let any future lapses go that long. (You'll notice I don't promise there won't be future lapses.)

Let's see.

Yesterday was release day, of course, being the first of a month, and Sleeper Squad 58 is out. I have begun work on the June story (that is, the story that will come out on 1 June), which is a Quitclaim, and not a moment too soon, because we haven't had one in a year, and that is too long between doses.

I'm hoping the Quitclaim is relatively quick to do, because I then need all the extra time I can get to work on Sleeper Squad 59, out 1 July, because it is going to be huge. There's a lot of story that has to be crammed into this issue; there's not really any way around it. It wouldn't at all surprise me if I needed a whole month to do it, and more would be better. Any amount of May I can carve out for that will be great.

None of that is responsible for the four-day gap here. Mostly it's just that work and life have got me in a place right now where I find I don't have the ertia to write down some of the things that occur to me -- particularly, a lot of things may pop into my head early in the morning, but by ten or eleven at night when I get around to "hm, time for a journal entry," either they've vanished or I find I no longer care to write them down.

The irony is that I have an enormous backlog of things I probably should be doing at my job -- none of them terribly urgent, you understand -- but we're currently dealing with a task that is urgent and has been going on for weeks and is draining the two of us doing it of the will to live. (I wrote a little about it in the last section of the previous entry.) I am not working hard, but it doesn't matter, because a couple of hours on that a day is all it really takes to make me not want to do a damned thing for the rest of the day.

Actually, that's true of a lot of my work. A couple of hours at a time is really all I can muster. This goes back to the "just get one thing done today" theory, also previously discussed ... but the problem is, with this big task, it's not getting done. It just keeps stretching on and on and on.

It will end eventually -- it has to. There is a firm deadline looming in the distance. And not in the particularly far distance, either.