Expenses

Train/bus = $698 1/27-2/20, $737 ticketed 3/13 thru 4/27

Hotel = 200, 300,

Food = [Portland] 33, 12, 24, 28, 16, 40, 40, 15, 7, 14, 16, 20, 40, 20, 10, 20, 40, 40, 5, 40, 32, 10 [San Jose] 6, 17, 5, 5 [LA], 7, 7, 17, 17, 5 [New Mexico] 5, 5, 12, 76, [Denver] 52 [PORTLAND] 20, 24, 12, 15, 5, 50, 10, 10, 10, 40, 5, 20, 80, 5, 10, 15

Medical = 12, 12, 12, 15, 12, 40, 200 ingrown toenail cut out, 15

December

-16. train delayed due to heavy rain and tornado south of San Jose, listened to Gibbon’s chapters 31 to 36, 1574, pack again and crutch to the station in the rain

-17. train trip, met Andy Perry

-18. arrival visits, met with Kelly’s widow, met with the Chief’s widow, skyped with Jeth on Thompson versus Bowie fight

-19. helped Kelly’s widow, squared away Igloo

-20. scheduled fiction posts out until march 1, trip to Washington with Wife, set up Christmas tree, shopping for Christmas dinner, cards and dominoes with Dog Soldier

-21. packing The Chief’s blankets, regalia, etc, cooked bison soup, posted nonfiction weekdays out to April 21, visit Chief’s wife in medical center, take her soup, put up Christmas tree, cards, whiskey, dominoes and die with Dog Soldier,

-22. 1697, Christmas prep, worst eye seizure,

-23. read James Anderson’s Feasting in the Viking Age, made chicken soup

-24. 1754, grave yard visits, wrapping presents, visit with Jason the Grocer

-25. 1267, Christmas calls, arrange and proof initial text of A Gaslight Knight at 6325 words, visit Kelly’s widow,

-26. skyped with Jeth over Teach versus Hung, 1707,

-27. 1347, pack Chief’s affects

-28. 1397, remove carpet and recondition floors in chief’s room, drank with the two Indian babe roommates

-29. removed carpet and conditioned floors in guest room, more drinking with Indian babes

-30. ham and beans, website posts, counsel Dog Soldier, 1708,

-31. 625, sobriety powwow at Oregon Conventions Center, first ever New Year’s Eve bar party, so weird

Articles/Chapters =9

Books = 0

January

-1. worst eye seizure in years, 570, begin reading The Dawn of Humanity,

-2. eye bad, skyped with Jeth, expanded structure of Vunak of Antares from 15 to 17 chapters, gamed chapter 9, set up chapter 10, proof Gaslight Knight 3.1, arrange text up to 2.3, post all 4 chapters out to March, 15, 1349, GK 3.2,

-3. cook beef and gravy, clean house, set up wife’s office, proof GK 3.2, sick

-4. extremely sick, 1470 GK 3.3, arrange text to 15,172 words, 1,159 GK 3.4, ham bone soup, read The Dawn of Everything to page 58

-5. 2096, made mashed potatoes, put together an end table, 1105, cards with Dog Soldier

-6. 1368, move new furniture in, shop, make chili, make shepherd’s pie,

-7. 1010, 1227, visit Mamma, pharmacy, post out to May, elders powwow

-8. buy tickets at train station, referee tribal dispute, make hot and sour soup, 1397

-9. 1077, to monthly elders lunch, bad eye seizure listen to audiobooks,

-10. proof 4 articles, read VU #7, call with Jeth, 1264 GK 4.2, redid last bedroom, played cards and dominoes until 3:00 PM

-11. edited/amplified GK 4.2, 1566 GK 4.3, worst eye seizure since 2022

-12. clean house, make chicken soup, 1138 GK 5.1,

-13. 1353 GK 5.2, 1183 GK 5.3, mad salmon chowder

-14. proofed GK 5.3, website links and email, to DMV, Movies, shopping, honey due this, that and the other thing…

-15. 1514 GK 6.1, 1616 GK 6.2, set up new bed for wife’s son,

-16. edited Chapter 8 of Vunak of Antares, skype with Jeth, proofed GK 6.2, 1293 GK 6.3, visit wife’s mom,

-17. box with O’Neal, get estimate from plumber, clean house, make keesh, record Myth 20 episode 3.5 hours, cards with Dog Soldier, email links, email book patrons,

-18. 1581, editorial call with Inthesegoingsdown, honey do day with wife, call with fighter, worst eye seizure ever

-19. 415, emails, restructure The Son of God, 1592, posted weekend fiction out to 4/27, weekday nonfiction out to 5/9

-20. 1833 GK 7.2, cook chili, clean, bad eye,

-21. 2259 GK 7.3, arranged text of A Gaslight Knight at 34,467 words, to the dump, to a powwow, clean kitchen

-22. proofed A Gaslight Knights to page 49, luncheon, binding eye seizure, 16 hours out,

-23. cooked pancakes, cleaned kitchen, proofed AGK to page 77, shopped, installed recliner, bad seizure, proofed AGK to page 217, at 34,580 words

-24. training consultation over phone, break out design of The Son of God to 7 books, eye bad, listen to Iliad,

-25. packed, 1025, eye seized bad, post,

-26. to San Jose, bad eye, audiobooks

-27. in San Jose, worse eye, can’t write, audiobooks

-28. in San Jose, bad eye, audiobooks

-29. bad eye, 1225,

-30. To LA & Joshua Tree

-31. To Alberquerque

Articles/Chapter = 25

Books = 1

Novels =1

February

-1. Alburquerque, terrible eye cycle, abated somewhat below agony by high elevation

-2. Laguna Seca, Outline 7 travel articles, frame Snow Ape, 809,

-3. Pagodas, Dulce,

-4. Laguna, ATV up box canyon

-5. Santa Fe

-6. Laguna, 1401,

-7. Albequerque

-8. Galesberg IL

-9. Chicago

-10. Denver, eye improving

-11. Golden, bad sinus infection

-12. Golden, begin writing again, emails, frame Pyreon, meet Herman

-13. Golden, frame Areiad, outline Pyreon, 1067, arrange text for Lane, 647, 1990,

-14. Golden, 1067, 2345,

-15. Golden, 716, Pyreon #0,

-16. Golden, 2215, 1425, 1279, eye popped, 1854, stocked firewood, made pasta sauce

-17. Golden, 1413,

-18. Golden, 1236, patreon posts to editor,

-19. ride to Denver, Train to Sacramento,

-20. train from Sacramento to Portland

-21. Portland, arrive, arrange training for April

-22. Portland, squared away, begin writing, emails, post training schedule

-23. do a 4 chapter skype with Jeth, clean, cook, re format Pyreon into Humanitarian Daily Ration

-24. 1294, made chili, shopped, cards with Dog Soldier

-25. 1324, take motherinlaw to lunch

-26. bad eye

-27. skyped with Jeth on Vunak of Antares

-28. Final skype on Antares, washed Crazy Dog in yard, cleaned house with wife,

Articles/Chapters = 16

Books = 0

March

-1. 1164,

-2. 1754, start Areid

-3. 1464, finish Vunak of Antares with Epilogue

-4. framed the conclusion of Plantation America out to 2028, 599,

-5. foot doctor, 1995,

-6. 2141, 3294 arranged text for Mourt’s relation

-7. 3214, boxed with Beast O’Neal, eye cut, 3824, 2697, 1623,

-8. 3118, 1175, 1249, 1932, 3012, finished Mourt’s Relation,

-9. 1296 HDR 1,

-10. 1517 HDR 1, walked out on wife at dive bar

-11. bought train tickets, bank, pharmacy, visit Mom, Lori, dollar store for Mom, Elder’s Powwow, dive bar

-12. walked out on wife for good before dawn, a cowardly act, crutched in the rain to bus, took bus to train station, picked up by The Geeze in Seattle, out to Cedar Mountain, 1489

-13. 1458, HDR 2, got on line with g computer and read or trashed 83 emails, answered 7, marked 5 for articles

-14. shopping with Mrs. Chosen, 1917 HDR 2.D, helped cook, cleaned kitchend cards

-15. 1483 Pyreon 3, 834, talked to Banjo

-16. Black Diamond Baptist Chapel, firewood, 1164, 1315, Pyreon 4, walked Mrs. Chosen and Toby, cleaned kitchen

-17. 1297 Pyreon 5, 1312 Pyreon 6, 779, arranged notes from Plutarch and Rufus for Advent, listen to lliad 9 thru 13

-18. shopping with Mrs. Chosen, walk Toby, 1629 Pyreon 7, clean kitchen and living room, 1333 Pyreon 8, 1068 Pyreon 9, listened to Iliad 9 through 12

-19. 700 Pyreon 10, 1034 Pyreon 11, 470 Pyreon 12, arrange text for Pyreon at 27,669 words including 7,509 words of nonfiction appendices, 1524 writing log

The worst winter of bad health I can recall, but with increased physical strength, has convinced this writer that three history books and one historical novel must be finished this year:

-1. Planting America

In This New Isrаel: Book 1: Earliest Known European Contact to 1699

-2. The Son of God—Advent

Alexander’s Expedition by Arrian: Book 1

Considering Alexander the Heroic & Arrian the Stoic

-3. Enemy of All Mankind

A Brief on The Eternal Foe of Humanity

-4. Grace

The Areid: Book 1

Late in a pulp writing a career I am in sight of wrapping up the huge American history messed I stumbled upon and beginning, too late I fear, a work on Alexander I have always felt beyond my capacity as a writer, and certainly my class as a man. Likewise, linked to both fo thee subjects I have finally lumbered into a history of conspiracy I have so long rejected.

Until next winter, if Providence grants it, I will try and stock up on legal, black market and veterinarian medicine so that I might survive next winter in a bid to complete Plantation America and get a second bet on Alexander’s still restive song.

Articles/Chapters: = 36

Books = 1

Novels = 1

Winter Totals

Articles/Chapters: 9 + 25 + 16 + 36 = 86

Books = 2

Novels = 2