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This is my first anything on the new computer. Yes, that’s right, the old one finally got so buggy that Jon persuaded me it was time. I have this beautiful new screen, much bigger than my old one. I hate it. The only thing I got to keep was my ergonomic keyboard. I hate all the new stuff. It’s beautiful, it works, and it’s different and it’s technology, and I hate it. The new printer doesn’t seem to bother me, because I don’t work with it, really. The printer just needs to print, and the old one had started not doing that. Maybe I need the screen to be a touch higher? Hmm. Jon put the new computer system up on the main desk, while I continued to work on the smaller desk across the room. That computer is no longer hooked up to this computer. We severed ties because of the problems the old system was having. It was taking down both computers and making it impossible to work, or eating my work. But brand new stuff to use. We’ll see how long it takes me to get over the trauma of new tech in my office. The timer went for tea, I’ll be back.
I’m back warm cup of tea in hand. The cup says, “Obey“, in big, bold letters with a small cartoonish figure beside the words done in sort of bondage/android. She is a smaller figure of Von Pinn, who is a character in GIRL GENIUS the Phil and Kaja Foglio comic. Several volumes are out, and three days a week you get to see the new pages. I didn’t pick the cup for myself. Jon bought it. I’d argue with the choice of cups, but I really can’t. I do like being in charge. As Jon says, “Not a bad thing, just true.”
A question from the board: Why hasn’t Merry seen a fertility specialist?
Answer: It’s been less than three months. Most reputable doctors won’t even count you as having problems until you’ve gone six months, and they prefer a year of effort before you seek medical aid. So, one, it hasn’t been long enough to say she’s having problems. Two, did you guys notice that they blamed some of Andais’s mood swings on the hormone treatments she was getting? I would think that might spook Merry and all the guards from that type of fertility therapy. Once the doctors have tested blood, and other bodily fluids, then the tests get more invasive. For women they can get very invasive, and painful, and even carry some risk to them. So, before a doctor would go collecting eggs and making sure they were fertile, I think we need a few more months of effort. KISS OF SHADOWS only began in October, close to Samhain, Halloween. The last two books have been set in December. A LICK OF FROST is also set in December. Merry is having a very, very busy holiday season. If people weren’t trying to kill her, she could simply relax and let nature take it’s course.