[Excuse me. Dropping outta DaSauce character thingie for the nonce� which I imagine will have many of you running from the naked word �I.� And for this I do apologize.]So.
Yesterday.
I did this really dumb thing. And My Dumb Ass� is prone to doing�well�dumb things. Following me so far? Good.
Yesterday, I started an entry that started to look like a novella and I broke it off, as it appeared to be at a juncture where the break was viable�and I hate the prospect of hitting you with a 5000-word entry. You are here for snits, giggles, and a periodic glance at strange-looking bald-ass attempts at introspection from someone who clearly doesn�t do them well. Not for reading for a half hour. No matter how wordy, I am, sometimes� do note that I do keep you--O'reader of my flowing nonsense--in mind in the process. So there.
Thus the three parts.
Act One was kinda-low-quality on a SauceScale�but you not only get what you pay for� you also get them unedited and in one quick lump (otherwise, your diarist might be tempted to perfect the contents which would be A BAD IDEA as these are just mutterings from an Only Parent, and such.) Beyond that, things being what they are� I�m already working a more than full-time gig (which I love) and finishing the first draft on my fourth book (but this is the only one that counts as it is Fiction, and is not-about-dem-game-thing-a-ma-bobs and may actually�eventually--be the job I get to do from anywhere.) The gist here is that if I edit, it looks like work and this diary is destined to be fun--and a nice blow off of steam from other endeavors.
So this afternoon I ducked the part where on weekends I join a wonderful little guy at the feets of She Who Gives Astonishing Nap And Doesn�t Gargle Or Spit, But Actually Swallows The Tireds and wrote my way back out of the paper bag I had left myself in�
The two follow on pieces are good. Phuck. Maybe even better than good. They have just enough thoughtful-boy-stench� & � and humor to hit properly where they belong.
Even so, they feel like I was cheating. I set aside time to do them. I thought about the content before actually putting my big-ass-paws to the keyboard. And I tried to make them good. So tonight when I went to cut and paste Act II into your future reading� I mused long and hard (get yer noggins out of the gutter� Mused not Used Or Abused Youse. Goofs.) about it and decided it WAS cheating.
Thus, without seeming to be a tease�as that is NOT my intent. I am holding them for rainy days. Some wonderful day when I have the plague or get knocked across the road in an (ideally) non-lethal incident with a rampaging Huffalump who is being chased down the cobbles by a Woozle (natch.)
Do remind me to tell you of the time I had a four-day-touch of the Bubonic Plague after getting vaccinated against such� I�ll never call those poor bastards in the midst of The Black Death sissies. Man, lose a third of Europe in 20 plus years? Yow.
Sorry about the sideways moment there.
OK. So. The intent is that you�ll get Acts II and III as I have a need for filler since they aren�t real from-the-synapses-to-your-eyeballs entries with the immediacy that the rest of me scribbles have had (minus otherwise noted filler a time or three in the nearly two months you have gotten an update and a half a day.)
Make sense?
Good.
Tonight my son and I were talking about the word Faux and its meaning of Fake.
After a few moments I had him laughing his skinny-little (Hey! What happened to the chub that was my toddler?) fast-growing white ass off�
I had explained that the stuffed animal I was holding really wasn�t really covered in fake or faux fur�that it was REAL plastic fur.
This set him giggling.
And then he noted for me that, �Corn is NOT from Maple Trees.�
I had such an explosive laugh that I blew spit across the dinner table� and more? I understood what he was saying.
And I think that covers the whole thing.
Thank you for your time.
We return to our regularly scheduled Sauce-like self on the morrow.
--TheGuyWhoIsDaSauce
PS. Such an excited lad here! I somehow missed 472 pages of goodness when it came out on January 7th� So this past week I noticed it, and I just checked tracking and Simon R. Green�s DeathStalker Legacy is due in tomorrow afternoon. I hope I don�t drool on the damned thing. Grin.