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First a quick note. Any British readers may have noticed that I ripped off Ryuu's rank insignia from the UK Royal Army. I freely admit it.

Now, a longer note about how I have only just managed to avoid going four weeks between chapters:

I should have warned people last chapter, because I had just learned about my latest issue just before posting it, but I was in too much shock at that moment to think straight.

Okay , here's the thing. I've been thoroughly screwed by my employer, so I have practically no time to write now. It may get better after the current storm is over, but it won't ever go back to the way it was. Right now, I'm trying to figure out how I will survive it, and it may end up forcing me into early retirement if nothing improves.

I suppose, for the reader, this would be a good thing. I would have lots of time to write if I retire. But for certain financial reasons, it would be a lot better if I didn't. I still have almost three years to go before I'm at the point I think will work out.As for what happened, basically, my employer decided to make their layoff decisions based solely on factors that had nothing to do with what jobs the people being laid off were actually doing or what skill base they were going to lose.

Basically, they decided to lay off 10 percent based solely on the fact that they noticed about 10 percent of their people were working in two locations they were closing. If you didn't work in the main office, goodbye. They could have kept critical staff by letting them work remotely or offering to relocate them, but apparently those ideas didn't appeal to the higher-ups.Unfortunately, in my team, one third of the team worked in each of those three locations (two outside offices and the main office.) Which means that my team is now down 66% of people who know how to do our job.

Meanwhile, they've made no effort to reduce the number of projects they expect us to complete.

Yup, my workload tripled.

I'm going to continue writing. I'm trying to switch to writing a little bit at a time, daily, rather than my normal routine, writing in a long writing session, a chapter or so in a day. I don't have any days off now, so I can no longer actually devote a full day to writing.

I'm not used to writing this way, so the first chapter took me three+ weeks. I'll get better at it. Wish me luck, I guess.

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