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Added 2019-05-09 16:01:37 +0000 UTC

Righties...still on transmit only for the mo as sitting up for more than 30 mins at a time is bloody hard.

I've a change of plan coming but first let me lay some evidence on you. Not that I want to turn this into a "misery-porn" post but it's just trying to assure you that I'm not actually spinning a tale. I've supported devs myself who seem to have had more bad luck than if they'd run over a bag full of black cats whilst driving under ladders and had the health of an eighty year old living rough under a damp bridge.

I am though really quite poorly and, as you'll see from the (understandably redacted) sick note below, I'm not going to be well for a little longer yet.

(EDIT. Originally I popped up a redacted copy of my sick note up here but I confess I was getting a bit worried about having it up even in that state. The dates would have made it fairly obvious should anyone from work have breezed by. Unlikely I know, but unlikely things can happen!)

*yep, it was backdated to the start of the infection so I could get SSP

Who would have thought something so simple could turn into something so utterly, utterly horrible. If the primary illness hadn't been bad enough, the secondary one is even worse as breathing is most difficult which means trying to do anything is near exhausting for more than a few minutes at a time. (it didn't help that the doctor was most smug that the secondary infection was probably due to me being a smoker. There is a time and a place for rightousness...)

It's all turned into somewhat of a nightmare - not only for this little project ( I could weep at the loss of momentum especially as Chapt Three was damned well near done in March as you can see from the previews etc) but also in general as I tend to get paid by the hour worked on projects by the office, so I see a lot of beans on toast in my shopping list for the future :(

That, however, is my problem. Not yours.

So why I am prattling on so? And what is the change of plan?

Laying in bed all day (which isn't as much fun as it should be...) I found myself wishing it was the 9th March not the 9th of May - and then I realised I could actually make that happen. Well not literally of course - but certainly to the extent that this sorry episode has impacted on you.

You see I might well be a ditz; I might suffer from overstretch and I might even be a bit of an idiot - but I'm not a crook.

It sits uneasy on me that people have given me money in March, April (and even May although I swear I tried to put the project on pause so that didn't happen) and have got bugger all for it. I don't like it. I dare say you don't either. It's not fair to you - and it's damaging to me in a way. Arguably it wasn't my fault, but fair words butter no parsnips, no?

So I'm going to give that money back. All of it.

You see the deal was you gave me some money, and I gave you a chapter. Now, you don't have that chapter so why should I have the money? I can't think of a reason, can you?

So, in say a week or so when I can handle being upright long enough I'll refund everything for those three months. Hopefully I should be well enough towards the end of this month to tidy up Chapter Three and I'll pop it up for the start of June and carry on from there.

Finally, I want to apologise for not answering messages, comments etc. As those who have dropped me a line before know, I usually answer instantly, but I'm afraid it will have to wait a week or so for me to be well enough to answer them all in one go. Again, it would sit uneasily with me answering some but not others (according to the little icon in the corner I have 99+ to answer!)

Laters!