Quick Update

Okay, so I wasn't planning to post anything until tomorrow or Sunday, I kinda needed a day or two to unwind after the crunch-hell I did to get Build 8 out of schedule. Unfortunately, one of those 'acts of God' that I occasionally insert caveats about popped up today.

Specifically, my mother was in rather nasty car accident. By the grace of God, she's not in any sort of danger, but she spent 12+ hours in the ER. The airbag went off (which really was something of an outright Miracle, since it's warning light has been on for literally years) and saved her life...but also deep-tissue bruised like 2/3rds of her upper body. She also broke her dominant hand...and her dominant foot, the latter damaged badly enough that it's going to require surgery. Complicated enough surgery they had to call an expert in (she's had numerous hand surgery's in the past. But the guy who did all of them took one look and said it was beyond what he's comfortable trying to repair). 

So, why am I telling you all this? Simply put, I live so close to my parents that I'm not effectively staying over at their place for the near future, in order to help move her around the house. She's 60 and already has one knee that's been replaced, so that's not easy to do...and something my 65-year-old dad, who is in good shape but still, you know, 65, is going to need quite a bit of help with. Obviously, this is going to affect my time-available fairly significantly for at least a few weeks. That said, it shouldn't effect DoL updates. Thanks to the timing, there's a good two weeks before I have to start on Build 9 and that should get through much of her initial healing and surgery and such, so I won't be needed nearly as much. Particularly as they have a supportive church and lots of friends to help as well. 

What it probably WILL affect, is work on Cosplay Cafe.  Particularly as I'm not going to try and drag my drawing tablet setup around. However, I'm not going to go into about how much it'll be effected...'cause I don't know yet.  Which isn't entirely the fault of this act-of-God situation.  I was already planning, later this month, to put up some polls/discussion posts. No that shouldn't alarm anyone that likes Cosplay Cafe. It's more that I need to get a feel for what my Patrons, now that there's actually quite a few of you, really want to see out of their support. More on that later this month. 

Anyway, I really just wanted to give fair warning that there might not be a lot of progress on Cosplay Cafe this month, due to circumstances waayyyy outside my control! Sorry if that upsets anyone :-(. I'm still going to try to get SOME progress in...