on and on and on and on and on and on, day after day, night after night,  BUT

you gave up smoking long ago and your poor little kidneys can not tolerate caffeine anymore?

This stuff really works, gang, and it doesn't give you/me nervous energy,  or make me feel like my heart is going to explode,  nor does it make me crash afterward -- in fact, I don't even notice when it wears off. It really does help me think & type! And, hey, since that's all I do anymore around here...



Plus

The weather here in my neck of the woods is eking toward spring. The past 2 days it's gotten close to 70 degrees around here so I went out and started my walks again. 2 1/2 miles instead of 3 or 4. (At the 2 mile mark, my legs were going: Whoa, hey, wait, what's going on here? So I guess I need to work up to my old routine over the next few weeks.) But walking sure does help keep your over-typing brain from going completely nuts, gang. Not to mention yoga, which has literally saved my life over this past year.

But, the good news is...

The new novel is almost done, gang. It really, really is.