Let's join the fun at a spanking-good Halloween Party in the conclusion of
Resident Artist Hugob00m's latest O. T. Katie adventure,
Halloween Story Part IV.
O.K., I'm really beat and I already commented on this over on B00m's Gallery, so I'll just repeat here that I think this was a great conclusion to a seasonal treat and anyone who hasn't seen it yet should go over there post-haste.
Now on to the lateness of these updates and my inability to clear out the mailbox. Poor
David Sherwood was waiting around for months for me to get to some things, and they were important. (He's trying to cook up some more good spanking stuff for us and in fact had received a completed commission which I just posted today as part of this week's updates). I felt so badly that I held back the updates until I at least got to his mails (those from everyone else are still sitting in pristine condition in the box!
) So what's the big problem?
I think most of you know, but for anyone who doesn't, it boils down to this: I'm overworked, and not just from performing five separate roles here at CSR (corporate, legal, research, technical, and editorial). My non-CSR obligations are grueling, and leave me very little time (or energy) for either CSR or my
other avocation as a non-spanking writer. Usually, I can only work on CSR when I'm too tired to do anything else, which is one reason for the very odd timings of some of my posts here (hawk-eyed readers may have wondered what I was doing posting between midnight and 6:00 A.M.).
Most weeks I have a choice: do the updates or open the box, but not both. I was actually doing o.k. earlier this year, getting enough ahead on the updates that I could get to the mail. But then came CSR's April Anniversary and my decision to go ahead with
"Who Was the ACES Artist?" in April which took every second I had in March and April to put together. Maybe it was a mistake, but since then I've been playing catch-up and not really succeeding. Next week I have to get the corporate report done (for CSR's parent corporation even though it doesn't make any money) as well as the updates.
So what to do? If necessary, I'll skip the updates one week, but I really hate to do that and I couldn't get through all the mail that quickly anyway. I might have to sacrifice something - I nearly didn't get this week's "Public Paddlings" together in time - to get to the mail. A lot of special presentations will have to remain on hold, and my spanking research is very limited these days (but still ongoing). I'll probably take it as easy as I can during December when everyone is busy anyway.
But I'm determined to keep going, and I hope we'll all be here next April as CSR turns 20!
Hmm, I'll have to do some kind of special for that - maybe I'll do another poll to determine what everyone would most like to see out of the ideas I've got in the hopper.
And stay tuned, because next week we'll have - well, I'm not sure what, but I intend to be here and I hope you will be, too!
