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Well – what can I say? Between blogspot and my friend Mark I’ve managed to learn how to insert images into php files, create new box menus and rapidly get RHG up to speed this week!

I say “up to speed” – what I really mean, is I’ve got it ALL working, haven’t ballsed up the site, and have slots ready for me to write more stuff into as the mood takes me!

Regardless – it’s done and I can move a weighty tome of printout “how to”s off my desk into a dark corner somewhere for the next time I try anything drastic!

Tomorrow’s job is clearing the decks of formatting work ready to begin work on another couple of plots and crack on with the blogging mystery.

Every week I take sunday off from mystery game writing. Mystery games are, after all, my business, and so I spend time doing other things, or even other writing work on Sundays.

Today has been a “no work” day. I’ve not even looked at a screenplay or novel today. Instead I’ve been in the garden with friends most of the afternoon and am heading back to church soon for the evening service.

It’s great to have a new pastor who is a little more computer literate, as it means his weekly sermons go on his blog so you can catch up if you miss one. My only problem is that I still don’t have any speakers that work with my PC. My suspicion is the soundcard is absent from the main box – so my task for this week (should I choose to accept it) is to take the cover off my old CPU to see if there is anything in there that might helpfully be labelled “Sound card” or something and then see if I can work out how to fit it into the new CPU so that I can actually listen to Graham’s sermons amongst other things!

The lack of working speakers has certainly made things quiet – there are no insistent “beeps” when things crash, and no irritating “bongs” when other windows pop up out of the blue. But when videos from Google arrive to help me make the most of my pay-per-click advertising it can get a bit annoying listening to them. In fact – the last feedback I gave to google on their self-help video was “can we have some subtitles next time?” I suspect they filed that comment amongst the other “cranks”.

Other task pending over the next week is to locate an “idiots guide” to HTML coding. I really need to brush up on stuff if I’m going to make a go of my on-line business.

Well, between three hours of formating work on Monday, Tuesday evening at the ironing board and today working out how to insert images into RHG pages I’ve taken five minutes out to blog.

Work is progressing slowly on Kathy’s play. (Sorry Kathy – I will get there in the end), partly I think due to brain freeze – it’s just refusing to cooperate with me!! My mind is wandering off on “novel” tangents again, which is a bad idea for me, as I can time-waste quite happily writing books which never sell!!! Not to mention hearing the call of Deep Rising which has been sat wasting away on the back burner for nearly two months. Poor fish!

And that’s it – five minutes up! Housegroup calls!

So much for the editors drowning under work! What goes around comes around! I am now swamped with formatting! It’ll take me at least a week to get on top of all the current crop of new games. But I can’t start today. Today is for packing. I’m being God Mother this weekend to my nephew! I’m so excited!

Oh well, so much with cracking on with new material, it looks as though I’ll be formatting and releasing new games for the next few weeks. I’ve had the first edited game back today, so keep your eyes pealed for “Mayhem at the Movies” hitting the site.

So… let’s see that’s three games and a screen play in the last two months! Oh the poor editors!

All the questions and answers, and the blurb is finished for A Midsummer Night’s Scream! Hurrah!

What next I hear you ask?

Well, for a start there is Kathy’s little skit to write. I will focus on that first. And after that… well, it has to be the on-line blogging mystery. Is anyone interested in playing host to some clues? It’ll drive some traffic to your blog.

Five question and answer sections to write and then “A Midsummer Night’s Scream” is finished! The scripted sections were finished off this evening, and I know they “hit the mark” as Magnus decided (unusually) to read them and creased laughing – so I think I have that about right.

I’m still waiting for the new date for the murder mystery at Healing Manor, but I have girl’s night out planned there for the 25th of this month, my first trial of the popular “Smashed hits” which is a little odd for me as it’s RHG’s best seller, and I’ve never actually played the game!

Tomorrow the guest list will be finalised and I’ll get to find out if I’m playing May Donna (With the 80’s cones) or Whitney Housedown (I’ll need to black myself up I think), or perhaps Tanya Wilsox (ginger wig and make-up). Whoever I end up playing I’ll enjoy myself. I have no other option!

OK – I admit, one night off and my mind is buzzing with things that still have to be done.

This week coming I simply HAVE to finished off “A midsummer Night’s scream” – regardless of how I feel about it. (It’s just been sitting too long. I’m no longer excited by it, even though it’s a good game. Such a shame…)

The next thing on the list, after formatting the three games currently with the editor, will be the creation of the on-line blogging mystery… the name of which is yet to be decided, but after my blunder early on with blogs perhaps “Deleted” might be the best title! 🙂

After nearly a month of deadlines, I’ve just realised there is no work pending with a deadline attached to it! (Plenty of work let me say, but nothing with a “do it now or else” post-it note attached to it!)

So, for the first time in a month I can relax and do something for myself and a friend.

The friend being Kathy, who’s asked me to write her a short skit for a reunion dinner.

Innuendo and daftness is wanted, brill…