Back from Vacation

I was recently reminded of this livejournal's existance when someone who's apparently a friend of a friend replied to one of my post- 9/11 entries. This was doubly shocking - first because of my entries being read, and secondly because it was someone I didn't actually know. But, if I've got an audience then it behooves me to actually write once in a while.

But that's not only how I'm back from vacation. I took a week and a bit off from work, starting with the fourth, and spent it doing nothing in particular. Thinking back, the only real accomplishments of the past week was returning a power cord to Micro Center and mowing part of the yard. The rest of the time was spent reading, watching DVDs, and immersing myself in my favorite online shared hallucination. I'd be more upset about that if it weren't for the fact that this was the idea: I relaxed completely into doing whatever I felt like for a number of days, and as such feel a lot more relaxed about my life and my job than I've been in a long time.

On the writing front, things are going well. My Nexus Novella, Missing Persons, has finally been finished to fairly good comments, although I dare say I'll go back and do another edit in a month or so. My first professional paid writing work, Emergency Response, is turned in and scheduled to be printed in November. This is an adventure for the Silver Age Sentinels roleplaying game by the company Guardians of Order, which I've done playtesting work on in the past. I really enjoyed doing this, and I'm hoping that I've done a good enough job that my editor will want me to work on something else in the future.

As for future writing projects, I've got another George LeChat story burbling in the background, which is waiting for other writers on Nexus to either finish their current stories or to return from their own vacations. I'm also working up a few artifacts for a Call of Cthulhu d20 anthology which is accepting unsolicited entries. I've long been a big fan of the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game, and the more items I get out there, the more likely that I'll get more writing jobs. And I've started on a story for my alternative imprint - an email alias that I keep separate from my real name to publish material I'd rather my mother not ask me about. :)

So, I'm back. And I hope some of you are too, or this is going to get kinda echoy.