I doubt I'm the only one that doesn't want to return to work tomorrow. I love working in marketing. It is a step towards the direction I want to go in, but ever since there was a knee-jerk reaction to a problem that doesn't fucking exist, I've been dreading going to work. I don't like putting myself at risk nor do I appreciate the child endangerment issues. I am taking steps to make this better. And obviously, I am under medical and legal advice to not even entertain someone else's knee jerk reaction to problems that just aren't real. It is too stressful and creates too many problems. Nor am I social worker or doctor.
I have started webpages about the AI generators and how google works. It'll be a slow project to relieve my PTSD. And there's a lot of information there that I take for granted in instinctively knowing after working in marketing for a few years. The AI information is new, so I also have to take that in. Although I have suffered some cognitive issues due to conflicting feedback recently, so it'll probably be good for me to go through all of Google's policies anyways. Hopefully, if you've lost your job to the AI generators, reading what I write about them might help you secure fresh work.
I did manage to finish a draft of Hack the Future, which is the short story I've been working on. I have a day and a half of annual leave this week for parents' evening (I get too tired to be out in the evening and make it to work the next day, unfortunately, that is one of the effects of those ten additional years between graduation and the #metoo movement where I wasn't allowed to simply get on with my life and it is unlikely to improve). So I will probably use some of that to go through it, make sure it is effective etc before I send it in. If you saw my social media before someone else's problem (which isn't real) created a bunch of real problems for me, I was complaining about the Word for Mac dictionary re-setting to USA English so one of my friends has to copy and paste that into a new file for me.
Although I also have to finish emptying the front room this week. I have started. My child has been really unwell this week so I didn't get it all done. The wall with the rising damp is being knocked down on the 15th and a new one going up the next day. I am really excited. I've wanted to live in a nice home my entire life. Obviously, this is rented social housing and it was my intention to buy a house when I moved to Liverpool, but the pieces of shit (particularly my son's old school and the sex crime committing teachers and former teachers, plus when my son's father was alive, that was a lot of arguing) weren't letting me take the steps necessary to get my life to that point. But, it is a step towards at least having somewhere nice to live that isn't embarrassing for either me or my son. There's finally been proper work done on the roof too, so my son can finally have the bedroom of a teenager. We've been unable to redecorate that room due to it raining in there.
My front room being redecorated after the new apparently damp-proof wall may mess with the Friday Night Story Time schedule over the upcoming weeks. If I do put up a video, it'll be one of my stories. Don't expect proper lights or a background right away or editing either. Those will come in due course. I'm only one human being and can only do so much each day.
Here's Jerk Face helping to temporarily pack away anthologies I've appeared in and books I've written. This obviously isn't all of them but, apart from Call Me Hoop and a first printing of 56 Seconds (with a typo on the title page) it is what I have.
I have started webpages about the AI generators and how google works. It'll be a slow project to relieve my PTSD. And there's a lot of information there that I take for granted in instinctively knowing after working in marketing for a few years. The AI information is new, so I also have to take that in. Although I have suffered some cognitive issues due to conflicting feedback recently, so it'll probably be good for me to go through all of Google's policies anyways. Hopefully, if you've lost your job to the AI generators, reading what I write about them might help you secure fresh work.
I did manage to finish a draft of Hack the Future, which is the short story I've been working on. I have a day and a half of annual leave this week for parents' evening (I get too tired to be out in the evening and make it to work the next day, unfortunately, that is one of the effects of those ten additional years between graduation and the #metoo movement where I wasn't allowed to simply get on with my life and it is unlikely to improve). So I will probably use some of that to go through it, make sure it is effective etc before I send it in. If you saw my social media before someone else's problem (which isn't real) created a bunch of real problems for me, I was complaining about the Word for Mac dictionary re-setting to USA English so one of my friends has to copy and paste that into a new file for me.
Although I also have to finish emptying the front room this week. I have started. My child has been really unwell this week so I didn't get it all done. The wall with the rising damp is being knocked down on the 15th and a new one going up the next day. I am really excited. I've wanted to live in a nice home my entire life. Obviously, this is rented social housing and it was my intention to buy a house when I moved to Liverpool, but the pieces of shit (particularly my son's old school and the sex crime committing teachers and former teachers, plus when my son's father was alive, that was a lot of arguing) weren't letting me take the steps necessary to get my life to that point. But, it is a step towards at least having somewhere nice to live that isn't embarrassing for either me or my son. There's finally been proper work done on the roof too, so my son can finally have the bedroom of a teenager. We've been unable to redecorate that room due to it raining in there.
My front room being redecorated after the new apparently damp-proof wall may mess with the Friday Night Story Time schedule over the upcoming weeks. If I do put up a video, it'll be one of my stories. Don't expect proper lights or a background right away or editing either. Those will come in due course. I'm only one human being and can only do so much each day.
Here's Jerk Face helping to temporarily pack away anthologies I've appeared in and books I've written. This obviously isn't all of them but, apart from Call Me Hoop and a first printing of 56 Seconds (with a typo on the title page) it is what I have.
To help me get to where I want to be in life I've obviously been relearning my lost art skills over the past few years. I have two secret projects I'm working on, but I am also updating some of my worst book covers. I started with Ghetto Super Skank as that is one of my best books but has the worst cover. Amazon should update it within 72 hours. Then because the cover is improved, I'm going to promote the fuck outta that. It probably won't be the only time I update that cover, but it is updated now with the skills I have compared to two years ago.
I will not be updating the plain and simple covers that I put on books that have been published in the past. Unless I have extensively updated the content, if you already have one copy of the book, you aren't getting anything new. Ketamine Addicted Pandas has the panda cubs short story in it. And that's about it. The books do get fancy new intros but these rarely exceed a few paragraphs. I'll let people know if the content is updated. The plain covers just allow long time readers to know they already have the title at a glance. It makes everyone's life easier.
I will not be updating the plain and simple covers that I put on books that have been published in the past. Unless I have extensively updated the content, if you already have one copy of the book, you aren't getting anything new. Ketamine Addicted Pandas has the panda cubs short story in it. And that's about it. The books do get fancy new intros but these rarely exceed a few paragraphs. I'll let people know if the content is updated. The plain covers just allow long time readers to know they already have the title at a glance. It makes everyone's life easier.
And finally, thank you so much for purchasing books and leaving reviews. I see the reviews. I know they are there, but I am a bit busy (especially dealing with problems that shouldn't even fucking exist) so I haven't been able to save them yet. Best sellers these past few weeks include Name Dropping with Hayden, Broccoli, The Previous Plastic Surgeon and 56 Seconds. And 30-50 Feral Hogs versus the Big Bad Unicorn (which finally has one lonely review).
56 Seconds will be back on amazon at the end of the month for its 5th birthday.
Thank you so much for picking these up. I will do a proper thank you post when things calm down and I get a chance.
And on that thought, it is time to start to get ready for the week. I really don't want to. I hope everyone reading this is having a better time than I am right now.
56 Seconds will be back on amazon at the end of the month for its 5th birthday.
Thank you so much for picking these up. I will do a proper thank you post when things calm down and I get a chance.
And on that thought, it is time to start to get ready for the week. I really don't want to. I hope everyone reading this is having a better time than I am right now.