Weekly Update #216

Sorry about no TTE last week, but that was a fault of me having bad planning and then vastly underestimating just how much work I'd be doing on the weekend. You see, the plan was that I would type EDO on Friday and then TTE on Saturday. EDO took me more time than I thought it would, so I typed half of it on Friday then finished it Saturday morning.

Then, on Saturday--wait, backstory time.

So, you see, when my grandma moved in with us like three years ago, the original plan was to get her an apartment down here. So, we moved all her stuff here. And she was the type of woman who wanted to keep everything she owned. So... a box full of various kitchen cleaning goods? Half of which are empty? You know it. She basically hoarded everything she had and stuffed her entire apartment into boxes, and that was everything that got moved down here. But, of course, there wasn't enough room in one apartment for two apartments worth of furniture, so we rented a "temporary" storage unit to store all her stuff in until we could get her an apartment.

But her condition was too bad to live on her own and the rest is history. For those who might be reading this who haven't read any of my previous posts about my grandma, she's got severe dementia, can't really live on her own at all anymore, and is currently in a special memory care facility for people with mental issues like her.

Anyways, so, we had a storage unit full of furniture and an entire apartment's worth of shit. And this storage unit kept on going up in price every month and lately has been about $250 a month. So, for about three years, my mum has been spending $250 a month on a storage unit full of shit. Getting that shit removed costs money. Bringing it here takes a ton of work she never felt like doing because she can be pretty lazy at times and would rather spend that money than deal with a ton of heavy furniture and around 80 packed boxes.

But money is an increasingly bigger issue in this economy, as I'm sure you're all aware, so I forced her to deal with it while obviously offering as much help as I can to get it done with. She didn't feel like it, but she knew it needed done eventually and I wanted to save her money, so I forced her to just get it over with.

I thought it would take 4 hours.

It took 11.

From about 12pm to 11:30pm on Saturday, I was basically non-stop walking and doing heavy lifting. We had to rent a moving van, load it up (the storage unit was on the second floor of a building with the nearest elevator being broken), drive it back to here, unload it, drive back, and repeat the process a few times. And because we live a good walk away from the parking lot and our apartment is at the top of a narrow flight of stairs... yeah. It was tedious.

So by the time I was finally home and done and clean after showering... it was midnight and I felt exhausted, so I said without saying it, "Sorry, but no TTE this week," and went to sleep. Now, two days later, my body still hurts from head to toe. My shoulders, back, knees, and fingers feel the worst. I also can't lift my arms higher than my chest without it feeling like they're cramping, and bending over? Hah, I ain't doing any bending over anytime soon.

So yeah. That's the story about how I basically pulled every muscle in my body and why I ended up not publishing TTE last week.

But! The storage unit is 100% empty now. We no longer have to pay a bullshit $250 a month for storage. That's worth the temporary, full-body pain that I have to feel now and will probably be feeling for another couple of days at least.

That aside, I just submitted LDQ's fourth volume to Amazon and it's currently under review. Eros also went and updated all the covers for me to look more consistent with the titles and volume numbering standing out more, so that's awesome. I'm also going to update the keywords for them and see what I can do about categories.

But other than that... time for memes 'nd things:

https://youtu.be/fZJ5iesjtHE I forget if I've posted this before, but it's worth reposting anyways.

https://youtu.be/hqf3GBj0bTo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ybp_52toJY

Weekly Worksheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1axQgnhjLbb59kYo8-01qSWBFM0vSOEBU/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=110960644416608383305&rtpof=true&sd=true

19 hours, 6,417 words, not much since I didn't get around to TTE, but I did get more of its first volume edited.

Ero Dungeon Online

I'm thinking that Lily got her chapter, so now Akorya needs a chapter. Then it'll be time for Thera. I just want to give everybody a bit of one-on-one time with Damian before wrapping things up, and once Thera (and Cani?) are in the harem, I want to focus on the harem as a whole for a couple chapters or so before ending things.

Lazy Dragon Queen

I wanted to go over what happened in the forest with this latest chapter, but then I had the idea of turning it into another "movie" screening like with Valkyria's past, so decided to go with that instead.

In Closing

That's all for now! Not much to say this update other than the complaining I already did. Anyways, I'm back to having no life whatsoever and doing absolutely nothing with zero plans that take me out of the apartment, so that means I can focus more on writing and editing this week... once my muscles feel better.

Thank you for your continued support, and please look forward to this week's chapters!