I have been working on getting the website up a notch or two, there is always so much to learn about everything. Thankfully AI can do a lot of the heavy lifting when it comes to answering basic and not so basic questions. Only a few short years ago it was stackoverflow or nothing, now, I haven’t been out there for many, many months. If things are broken, eventually I will find and fix them. The commenting is, ugh, so spam filled I don’t even like enabling it. <shrug> That’s how the world rolls these days, isn’t it?
Other news in my life: I’ve been accepted for retraining as a student for an upcoming ‘boot camp’ style of training through Per Scholas. It is for AI Native Business Intelligence class. Looks intimidating; I never thought I’d go in for 40+ hours a week of schooling again. As the saying goes, “I’m getting too old for this shit.” Thanks ‘Lethal Weapon’! Too old for schooling too young to retire. A shame really.
Work on Ashes to Ashes is complete, with files up on all the networks I use and linked to through on the book page. I’ve being trying to claim my authorship on Bookbub and other reading platforms and that is not going super well, loads of old email address clogging up the system. If I had my time again, I’d just use mclodi@ctales.com on everything, hell, I’ve owned the domain long enough to make getting mail here appropriate. Now, it’s just one more thing in a long list to get done. Eventually it will too. Heh-heh, of course, I should create that email first. Ugh, details, details….
Currently I am on a fast, I go through these phases once in a while, and I’m bringing it up because of mental health. I’ve tried using psilocybin more than a few times over the years, but never while fasting. Usually I do a lemon or lime tek, today I steeped it in my date tea, with a Vietnamese pour over strainer. Be careful what you with for…I made the tea, went back to working on a few web things and suddenly, yeah, it hit me. Dr Google let me know what happened after the fact: empty stomach, steeping is also an extremely effective delivery method. I was not expecting how hard it hit. No delusions, no disrobing and running wild around the cul-de-sac until my neighbors corraled me back inside. Just a nice, mellow time that HIT LIKE A FUCKING BUS. I only managed to get half the cup down too. Lordy and I was thinking 3 grams was too weak… So psilocybin does have an effect on me, good to know. THC is also pretty benign to my system for some reason. I blame my high percentage of Neanderthal DNA, everyone knows those ancestors were fun-suckers who didn’t like to party.
Finally work continues on Outshined, which sits over sixty thousand words and I expect I will finish it up by the end of the month. Next up will be book II in the undying series, which has the title of ‘Rising from the Dust’. I’m stoked about working on that one too, ideally it will be out before the end of the year.
