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…but beginning of something else.

I’ve been blogging for a number of years (five) now. There have been intermissions, fallow periods and even more rarely posting frenzies. However, the underlying trend is that I’ve realised I don’t want to blog just to vent my spleen as and when my whimsy suits.

So, I’m calling a day on my blogging.

Don’t remove me from your RSS feeds so fast though, as I will still be posting.

In the past year or so I’ve been reading a lot of fanzines, all from the navel of fandom into which I have neatly fallen into since heading south. Reading these has led me to realise that firing off the odd random fast piece of writing is not my thing. Instead I’ll be writing longer, more considered pieces – with a view to collating them as a whole later.

As you’ll see I’ve tagged this post as part of issue 1. It doesn’t exist yet, in fact this is all I’ve written. This is very much an experiment – but I think that with a little more thought into the writing I might just enjoy having this thing a lot more – and that’s what this is here for. For those of you who demand their fanzines be paper, I promise to bind the results up by the end of the year, and that is a binding promise.

In summary: all killer, no filler. And a special dead tree syndication method with high latency forthcoming.

Short status update.

I am indeed, still alive.

Bit shocked, but being a (smug) cyclist I do note that my commute was intensely dull and ordinary today (appart from my pointless 3mph crash into a Mercedes in the morning).

SF/London people – no Ton for me – though I could cycle in for a pint, it’s not quite the best idea I guess…

Me no have migraine now

…well, not so much.

My month long course of beta blockers seem to have been most effective, and now I’m down to the odd migraine every now and then. I’ve switched my painkiller from ibuprofen to the paracetamol/codeine I was given an emergency prescription for at the start of all this and found it to be incredibly effective, even in the reduced dose Boots sell over the counter.

So now, I’ve had the odd tingle once a week or so, but I can get rid of it within a good hour or so.

It’s quite liberating, I feel awake, inteligent, alive and dare I say it, happy!

Happier still for my sister, who got married somewhere in the middle of my month of sleepy days.

my sister\'s wedding