Internet Radio

After my computer crashed, I was crushed by the fact that I lost a lot of my work regarding The Way of Deception. My blogs have been doing fairly well, with A Right Angle in a Left Turn World sometimes jockeying for position as my most popular. Political Pistachio remains my most popular, with Right Angle and the two Carried By Christ blogs right behind them. I have since bought another domain name, this one is www.politicalpistachio.com for easier remembering (blogspot is dropped from the URL), and I have since opened up a MySpace blog, and another blogspot blog.

The new blogspot blog is the main reason for this post. I was contacted by Kender, the owner and operator of Wide Awakes Radio, and asked if I would host a show. Of course, I agreed. Now, I am focusing a lot of energy on this show, which will premiere in the next couple weeks on Saturdays from 5-7 pm, as I also work on the marketing in regards to the show. The new blog is Political Pistachio Radio.

I am back to working on the book as well.

The Crash of Reality

I am nearly recovered from the surgery I had on December 29, 2006. I still hurt, but I am not in total pain anymore. In fact, this morning I pulled my socks on all by myself without help.

More painful than the surgery is the fact that Sunday my computer crashed. I am currently typing on my old computer. Luckily, it's not a complete junker.

I failed to follow my own advice and make sure everything was backed up, and I lost drafts 8 and 9 of The Way of Deception, which luckily I printed. It's just a matter of typing it back into the computer.

Political Pistachio (Non-Fiction Book) was not as lucky. Everything was lost, none of it was backed up, and none of it was printed. All of it is gone.

Perhaps that is a signal that I need to only concentrate on The Way of Deception.

While I was down

December 29th I had surgery to contain two pesky hernias in my stomach. One of them was pushing on my belly button, the other presented itself as an unsightly bulge directly above my umbilical area. I've been bed-ridden, for the most part, ever since.

The first 48 hours was horrid. I've been moving around a little more with each day passing. I've been doing a large share of reading and writing, but mostly, I've been watching the television.

What all this time with the boob-tube has done has reminded me as to why I don't watch the TV.

The Way of Deception has grown, as has the non-fiction Political Pistachio. What I have learned most, however, as I have ventured back into my office is that my desk has gotten quite disorganized. What I need now is another file cabinet.

Nothing like a little down time, however, to really get you writing.

Okay, enough for this post. Time to get back to my books.