My inactivity on the blog

To those that care I thought I should explain why I've been unavailable on the blog the last few weeks. The reason I've been unavailable is because an old sports injury relapsed and I tore the outer fibrous ring between two vertebrae in my back, compressing my spinal nerves which in turn make me feel lots of pain every time I move the core of my body in the slightest. It's especially bad when I'm sitting down because the spinal disc herniation impacts another nerve injury I got when my knee was dislocated a few years ago. So every time I bend my left leg it makes me cold-sweat from the pain, which has lead to me not being able to sit at the computer for more than a few minutes.

The worst part is that there isn't really a way to alleviate the pain except by taking strong opiates or surgery; both of those aren't really an option, at least not from my point of view. Opiates are dangerously addictive, and surgery close to the spinal cord isn't really something I wish to gamble the function of my legs on.

If only I hadn't accidentally drowned my laptop all of this wouldn't have happened. I must say that this is a fairly amusing chain of events. Spilling a glass of water on my laptop led to building a make-shift internet-computer that barely works, and because it barely worked I searched for another laptop I had in storage, which in turn led to me lifting a really heavy box, straining my back and having an old injury relapse. I only wish I could laugh at it, but laughing hurts too much...

Anyway, I'll probably not be available until January at the earliest. Last time I hurt my back like this it took a bit more than three months for it to heal completely, but now I'm already much better than I was the days just after I hurt my back, so that's good at least.

And I'll also try and find/buy a new laptop while I visit my parents during Christmas so that I can use it in bed. The laptop I found when I hurt my back didn't have a working wifi- or network-card, so it was a truly useless injury. And I haven't been able to buy a new laptop because I live in a village with less than 1000 residents; it doesn't have an electronics' store.

Hopefully none of you take any offense from my unavailability. If I could spend time at the computer, I would, but agony is a great deterrent. If only I was of the M-persuasion then this wouldn't be so bad...

The only good thing that has come from this injury is that I've had a lot more time to spend on thinking, which has led to several good ideas for the future story, characters, and places. I also have some things I need to change in what I've written in book-form of Volume 2, but it's for the betterment of the story, so it's worth it.

As a side-note I thank all of you who have voted about possibly donating or helping out by spreading the word about this story. I didn't think it would show such good results. It's only too bad I can't really implement a donation-thing right now. It'll have to wait until I've recuperated.