Today is Sunday. On Sunday I can hide from all the business tasks. This day is for church, and family, and solace of spirit. Last week was a storm of urgent business tasks. More urgent business tasks lurk and wait for me on Monday morning. Part of me wants to rush past Sunday so that I can get started. I want to tackle those tasks and get them done so that they will cease to plague me. Another part of me wants to huddle right here in the middle of Sunday. In this space I am excused from many of my every day tasks. I don’t want to leave the calm in the eye of the storm. Especially since all predictions say that this storm of busy is going to last until the end of April. Then it will change shape and last until June.
We reached sigh of relief on the pre-orders. Except then we realized that the production of the XDM project will delay the release of the next Schlock book. The profitability of XDM is a big question mark. We all think it is marvelous and that it will sell well, but there are no guarantees that a couple of thousand people will agree with us. This means that to truly breathe easy, we need to squirrel away 8-10 months of income rather than just 6. With the re-adjusted math, we’re not to sigh of relief yet. But we are definitely out of the bind panic zone, which is good. And pre-orders still have a couple months left to run.
I have too many things in my head and not enough time to sort through them.