Monkey Shines

No blog for almost a whole week? Where did the time go?

Have finally completed the reproofing and redesign of Shocking the Monkey. So if anybody happens to be paying attention, it will probably be available a little earlier than the 10th, but by the time I get round to editing the button in the sidebar, the 1oth is likely to be a good estimate. This means I also have to spend some time designing the storefront at LuLu.. which I am trying to avoid due to their crappy interface. If they could get that sorted I'm sure everybody would have much better storefronts over there and - gasp - sell more stuff!

Just the PR and marketing to sort out then... sheesh.

So with that past project dusted, time to move onto the next one. I should be focusing on the big books (Almost Human and Carnival of Souls) but these "machine gun" books are a vital tool for emptying my head. The next one will be Black Dye, White Noise - another collection of musings, along with my entire lyric books from both bands, more scraps of paper that wouldn't fit in Monkey and some new material.

The prologue of Too Hot For Dogs also gets finished tomorrow. I'm torn now between releasing it and keeping it for the BICS event. Will chew on that.

Later that same day:

Working on the Mac in the kitchen, I thought I would strip some junk out as she's getting bit slow. I found an old app of Entourage that I was using for mail back in 2004 with loads of mail on it from when we kick started Burn. Amongst a whole bunch of old adverts and pic attachments stealthily sent from work browsing back home, I found this that Ian sent me for a chuckle. I had forgotten all about it... what are chances of that. I wonder what kind of a guy he was. Probably an incredibly decent bloke, but I'm just guessing.

More later still...