Hey, no problem - my very last useful act on Wednesday night last week was to set up the new episode ("Songs For Dead Hearts") on Wordpress. I actually said, "well, maybe I could do this tomorrow night, I'm feeling a little funny" but I went ahead and did it anyway. A few minutes later I had a minor dizzy spell and went to bed.
Thursday morning I woke up to a world spinning out of control. Seriously, my eyes could not stop rolling in my skull. Extreme nausea resulted, as might be expected. A trip to the doctors (someone else driving, natch, as even light playing on my eyelids sent me spinning) confirmed that I had an inner ear infection. The next two days were sheer hell (seriously - if a doctor ever says "Inner ear infection" to you, block out at least 4 to 6 days of uselessness) which consisted mostly of me groaning and keeping my eyes tightly shut or stumbling across a sea-pitched floor towards the bathroom. I could not look at any computer screen (or even a circular fan) And through it all I thought "thank God I set Pseudopod up a day early".
Except when I'd recovered on Saturday night (slightly recovered as it turned out, Sunday proved I was still incapable of driving a car or walking in a straight line) I glanced at the page (glancing was all I was capable of) and... no episode. So I went into Wordpress and it was showing as published and so I clicked over the page again and, voila, there it was. I am still not stable enough, or care enough, to solve the mystery, although I am happy to see that, a day late and a dollar short, the new Pseudopod made it out.
And now I've used up my allotted stabilized time. Wheeee......
"Sometimes it moves, growing bigger and smaller, broader and longer, throwing out octopus-like tentacles, snail's horns, or frog's legs. It becomes monstrous. It circles round to the right, then to the left, spinning wildly before my eyes for hours at a time.”
Camillo Boito, “The Grey Blotch”