Crueler Months:

In the past month, outside of my busy day job, I:

• Finished writing my novel. It's 72,500 words. Strangely, it's neither science fiction nor fantasy. It's just a modern novel. Now I'm letting it sit for a bit before I edit it. I can't promise when it'll be in stores though.

• Finished writing a book with Ian Langworth. It's good stuff. It'll be out before OSCON.

• Started applying documentation patches like mad to Parrot. At least, I've been bolder about it than before. (I also fixed a segfault, which was nice.)

• Released Class::StorageFactory. Has it been a month already? Note that I renamed load() to fetch() and save() to store().

• Released a (new maintainer!) version of SUPER. I volunteered to take over this module because I wanted to fix it to work with Class::Roles. That's one part down.

• Adopted two cats. My plants downstairs are suffering a bit.

• Learned enough about rake to write a Rakefile for Pacuby. (If that doesn't make any sense, consider that the first time I had an upcoming book deadline, I wrote tests for a fair swath of the Perl core.)

• Wrote two actually useful testing modules I plan to release to the CPAN very soon.

• Started brainstorming another book project.

Maybe now I can sleep again.