I’m not sure how I feel about today’s adventure. I arrived for the MRI at 11:30 am got home around 4:00 ish. That should tell you how long I was at the hospital. When I had the heart cath, I was told it would be the easiest procedure I’d ever have done in a hospital. 

I’m starting to believe them. 

When I got there, I had no idea I’d be getting an IV. I didn’t know the stuff they were gonna pump in would be ice-cold. And I didn’t know it’s an interactive procedure, which means an eternity in a tube, strapped to a table with warm things stuck to my chest with headphones and having to hold my breath for varying seconds on the out-breath as the technician tells me. It’s one thing to hold your breath with a lung full of air. EXPELL the air and then hold it. 

Vury different. Oy! 

When I got home I had every intention of getting back to work. Nope. I sat on the couch, turned on the TV and promptly went to sleep. Slept for over five hours. Got up, ate and then went back to sleep for another seven hours. 

Now I’m sure I know how I feel… A Cardiac MRI is now on my Top 10 Things I Don’t Want To Do Again.  >.< 

It’s time to update the free stuff on the newsletter. I like offering Grimoire as a freebie, but I think giving readers a more pertinent offering for them when they join is better. 

So… 

When this website goes back up, the newsletter will no longer offer GRIMOIRE, the origin story, but CHIMERA, a pre-Chronicles and Eldritch story on how Samantha and Grey hooked up. I’m working on it this week and getting it ready for the editor to run through it. I’m also very much aware no one can see this post yet since the site’s not live. But I want to have a few blog posts in the can when it does. 

Once I have a cover of CHIMERA, then I’ll post it up here. Also, when the switch happens, I’ll give newsletter members a link to download it on their own for a limited time. And if you don’t get the newsletter, as in you subscribed but that link didn’t come to you, re-subscribe again. If you get a warning that your address is already there, you won’t be subscribed twice. But if it goes through, then you’ll get the prompt to download the book like a new subscriber. 

If you get the warning, contact me off the website and I’ll send you the link to download.  ;) 

Now…back to the website and content. 

Starting over on a website with nothing—and I mean nothing—is daunting. It’s got potential, but there’s really nothing more than a shell. And though it seems kinda sad, it’s also like starting fresh, which is how I am choosing to look at it.

The thing that took down my previous site was malicious code. And a lot of it. This can get in there any number of ways. And according to my previous hosting service, it did. But it wasn’t the code that prompted this complete host change and new site. It was the customer service, or lack of it. I start out with a clean frame, a clean site and a clean host.

What that means is no backlog of posts. This will be the first.

I thought I was going to use MUSE to create a new site, and I was halfway done before I realized it doesn’t have a blogging function. The only way to get a blog is to embed one from another site like Blogger. Uh…no. I need this as simple as possible. I’m already behind in everything…

Like, really behind in Chimes At Midnight, but I’m going to do my best to get that sucker out there. I also have the next Shadowrun story due to Catalyst August 1st. And I have a trip to New Orleans this month. o.O

To quote Velma Dinkley, “Jinkies!”