Minor Update

So -- I haven't been hit by a bus yet, but my computer may as well have been. My loyal (and completely crappy) laptop finally gave up the ghost a little over two weeks ago now. It's been a true and constant companion, and it did not go alone into the darkness. It went well accompanied by the majority of my L4D Big Bang story, and almost all of Crossroads of Eden.

Yes, I was stupid and failed to have an emailed or otherwise backed-up copy.

Trust me that my internalized angst and hand-wringing is sufficient punishment. Trying to recover stuff off a HD that has turned into a brick and spending the last week in the guts of my deceased companion with a magnifier and some little screwdrivers trying to fix some things and bring it back to life has also been torturous. But apparently there are no fixes for a fried HD controller on the motherboard, but hey! The video works again. So I can enjoy the "no IDE found" system warning.

Enough of that.

The sum of this ramble is that I will not be able to start posting CoE this week as planned. I did have some draft fragments I had passed out to betas that I have been able to use to start piecing the story back together, and having written so much of it once at least I know how things are supposed to go now *dryly* So some delay, but I still anticipate getting the first section up in January, and ...*sighs* that's really all I have right now. I really do apologize for the delay, a lot of things are not ideal right now and this computer melt down is just one more exciting adventure.

But zombies and vampires to kick off the new year!