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No e-mail. No blog. No Forum. And, I can’t get on Facebook due to some issue with the e-mail. Twitter is up, but that is it. That has been it for three days. We need a tech fix. This blog is actually a test to see if the blog is working. We’ve managed to reach my official website and the last blog posted. If this posts then the blog is up, but e-mail, Facebook, will still be down for us until the techies half-way around the world actually do their jobs correctly. Did that sound bitter; angry? I’m trying not to be. I mean it’s not like I can yell at Bethany, whose real name is probably more like Padma, where she’s sitting in India. It’s probably not even her job to do the actual tech. She just answers phones and takes the message. It wasn’t anyone’s fault that will actually answer a phone and talk to us. So, yelling at them seems pointless and petty. Sometimes it’s hard not to be petty, but I am trying. It’s like yelling at the waiter in a restaurant because the food is terrible. The waiter did not cook the food. In fact, the only thing you can ever blame on the wait staff is if the food is stone cold, then they should have gotten it out to you sooner, but other than that yelling at them is not yelling at anyone that did the mistake. It’s just yelling to vent, and really venting should be saved for the gym, the heavy bag, meditation, or good friends. Anger isn’t to be sprayed out at random passersby, it should be honed, coddled, and aimed at just the right moment, just the right person, when it will actually do some good. I value the rare moments when I can release my anger and let it run free capering and slaughtering while it whistles a jaunty tune. Ah, happy day.

But most of the time, anger is simply an indulgence. It is something most of us scatter around us like unhappy surprises. Or, some people are afraid of their anger and they never get angry for fear other people won’t like them. Anger is just one of the many emotions we come with, it’s there for a reason, and should be exercised right along with joy, sorrow, and the entire range. To cut yourself off from any emotion is to limit the human being you are supposed to be. The trick is that you control your anger, and the other emotions, I mean love can do more damage to your life than hate. It’s all about discipline. Hmm, it seems like I’ve wandered away from the whole tech problem that I began with, but not really. I am angry. I am frustrated. I am impatient with the process. We were in the process of getting the page proofs on Bullet, the June Anita book, via e-mail when it went down. So page proofs came via Fed-ex, a few days later than e-mail would have done. The Anita Blake comic is more problematic since we work with artists that are scattered across the Western United States, our editor is in New York, our colonist is in Italy, well, you get the idea. The comic only works from such far flung distances because of e-mail. Without it we are pretty much screwed on the comic. The time schedule does not have time in it for Fed-ex to save the day for the comics, only electronic technology allows the process to work on such tight deadlines. We are days behind and every day we lose we get more behind. There is no saving it except to restore the e-mail. *sigh*

Two e-mail boxes just crossed my computer screen. Tests from Jonathon to see if e-mail is working. *Cross-fingers*