My concentration is zip the last few days.  I can muse and muse away, but when I sit down to try to write it, my brain grinds gears.

Work’s been irritating, and the young one has been uncooperative.  That’s probably it.

Weekend is coming, and I still have a nice, large bank of time-off hours for work.  I need to save at least 7 in order to do what I do every year, which is take off every Friday between Thanksgiving and New Year’s ( plus a spare day in case I get sick, the car breaks down, etc., so they can’t take away one of my scheduled days off *laugh* ) but I have at least ten right now, plus I should get another one in October, plus I don’t think they’ve added in the Labor Day floating Holiday yet ( not sure )

Regardless, I have at least a couple of days I can take off over the next couple of months.

The young one has been sleeping in on weekend mornings, so I usually have a couple of hours of quiet time in the morning.  If I can get woke up, I can usually get some writing done then.

In the meantime, since I can’t concentrate on writing ( mainly visualizing ) I got a few more things done for the Shorts.  I finished my two utilities to approve and reply to comments on short stories.  I also fixed a bug in the actual story display page that was only showing up in Chrome ( dumb tag omission that Firefox and IE both ignored )

Reorganized my admin main page while adding the links for better efficiency as well.

Added the email push to alert me when a new comment comes in, but it’s pretty basic right now.  I’m going to add a little bit to it so that the email actually tells me what story the comment is on, etc.

The anti-spam code is sitting, waiting to plug in.  I’m just holding off on that until I’m fully done testing comments, so I’m not hitting the anti-spam database with unnecessary queries while making fake comments to play around with and check my code.

The only real thing left for the shorts now is the utility to populate the shorts database.  I need more than one complete story to truly test it, but I can cheat and copy the complete one into multiple copies during the testing phase, and then delete them afterwards.

Well, the young one appears to be down for the night, so I’m going to try to wind down a little and see if I can get some writing done.