The best things come in threes, albeit over a very long while.

Two chapters in over half a year is pretty feeble going, by most measures.

Happily, three chapters is vastly less feeble, if my feeble-mathematics isn't letting me down. Have a third chapter accordingly! With any luck, the great-grandchildren of those currently living might behold the next. It can become a regular tradition, like Halley's Comet.

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[nightwalker]

And just cause it's 2am here, won't stop me reading it today.

[Carabas]

4412551
Sensible sleeping patterns are for the weak.

[nightwalker]

4412570
Given that you've done graduate work, I can certainly see why you'd think that.

[Frustration in Excelsis]

*In a moonlit graveyard, the stillness of night is broken as a bony hand thrusts out of the ground. The appendage is followed by its twin, and soon a whole skeleton is clawing its way out of the grave. The corpse reaches back into the hole and retrieves a grimy laptop, muttering obscenities about internet reception underground. It turns on the computer and, to the frantic whirring of fans desperately trying to keep the ancient machine from bursting into flames, starts to scan a list of websites*

"Lessee... Halley's Comet due again in a decade... the seventeen-hundred year cicadas are due to come out of hibernation... climatologists reporting next glacial cycle arriving on schedule... oh, hey! Wedding March updated!"

But seriously, stoked to see a new chapter up! Gonna have to read it later though, since it's abominably late here even by the standards of my nearly nonexistent sleeping schedule.

[FanOfMostEverything]

I can confirm that you have cut your feebleness by half. Sadly, there are diminishing returns on that sort of thing, but I'm still happy to see anything from you.

[Spectrumancer]

4412570
As a person working irregular night shifts half the week: What the seven hells is a sleeping pattern?

[DannyJ]

You are not forgiven until the whole story is released.

[Carabas]

4412637
...I approve of my worst habits inspiring good word-pictures like that, but I resent the comparison of my writing speed to glacial cycles. They're comparable to geologic eons, if anything. I won't be undersold on that front.

Hope it delights, as and when lateness becomes acceptable earliness.

4412664
"Hurrah! The feebleness has been un-dou -"

Nah, doesn't work, that one. Happy to produce something, at least.

4412769
It's a thing that people have, and it does something, I think? I'm working a nine-till-five job, and I'm still only loosely aware of the whole concept myself.

4412914
...Welp. Hope you've got a comfy chair and a book long enough to last past the heat death of the universe. That forgiveness may be pending for a wee while yet.

[CrystalWaters]

There are a couple of things a good author needs to maintain.

1. Their lives.
2. Their stories.

I've taken the liberty of arranging them in order of importance.
And honestly? You've been posting blog posts at least once every couple of months which is enough to let us know you're still alive.
Oh!

Speaking of, how are you doing with that job you mentioned back in November?

[Carabas]

4415373
Glad to be able to maintain not-deadness, even when all evidence points to the contrary.

The job's going well, and cheers for asking! Keeping me busy with SPSS and Excel spreadsheets and suchlike, but I'm getting into the swing of things. Nowadays, whole minutes can go by before I start swearing like a sailor at a piece of syntax.