Interruptions ...

Going to interrupt the series again, but rest assured I'm coming back to it.  Some here may have noticed that it took a number of days before writing the last post; I feel compelled to explain why, as it's disrupted my free time and equilibrium.

As I've explained, my day job these days is to provide material for, and editing of, business quarterly reports for a third party company that helps write reports as part of their service.  Work arrives inconsistently in my inbox, usually every day, inconsistently, while I receive a monthly salary.  In the meantime, I observe a non-disclosure agreement about what company's content I write on, and the company I work for.

About six weeks ago, as near as I can figure, the "deciders" of one of the companies in our former repertoire allowed himself to be talked into using ChatGPT to write a substantial amount of their quarterly report.  This ... did not go well.  In fact, as you might imagine, it went, um, badly.

It's been two weeks of steadily ascending work to clean the mess up ... and as such, during that time, I haven't been writing on the blog, nor my book, nor any pleasant material, nor has anyone else connected to the matter.  As of the weekend, we finally put the thing to rights, a couple of weeks past the posting deadline for the report, for which there will be fines and rolling heads, I'm sure.  It's not my problem, any more.

So yesterday I wrote a post and today I'm ... resting.  The book will get addressed, I expect, this week, but I'm not rushing myself.  This sort of thing makes a good time to re-evaluate, as being away from it for awhile gives me a perpective I lacked while buried in the daily routine of writing it.  No worries, I'm happy with the book, and the content, but I've been reading bits and pieces of it and I'm under no obligation to pick up the writing again this minute.

I may post a preview this month, I may not.  I'm going on vacation in 25 days; gonna drive through some obscure places of Alberta and British Columbia, then out to Vancouver Island and Victoria, and then back through southern B.C. to home.  A day trip into Seattle is planned.

So, I'm prepping this, handling my usual daily work load, thinking about the book, sporting around writing some content for the wiki as a way to relax, and intending to write a follow up to my last post on this blog soon.  All is good.