Wednesday I cancelled my old store-front through Yahoo. I had no idea how nearly traumatized I would feel when next logging into Yahoo and seeing the ‘flagship’ of the various web domains missing. There was no longer a Double Edge Press.
Of course, Double Edge Press still continues to exist in it’s new home, on Intuit – Homestead. But the amount of work I placed in building the original storefront and to see it disappear in the course of a few hours was significant. It reminds me most poignantly that we have set a new course. Implementing the new and deleting the old is a mixture of relief, nostalgia, exhilaration, and terror. I feel like an acrobat who has just let go of one trapeze and who is floating in mid-air for that brief second, hoping the other trapeze will be there as I reach out my hand to grasp it.
With the grasping of that second trapeze and getting the final work done on the new store front comes the unveiling of the ‘Silver Bullet’. Longer on the drawing board than expected, but I doubt if anyone, especially not me, foresaw an unusually brutal February wherein I feel as though we have been living the last few weeks on mere survival mode more than in production mode. The three and a half day power outage left us with broken water pipes which needed replaced. Now we have ominous water marks on the ceiling of our bathroom, which is a single story addition to the main house with a roof that is flatter than the rest of the home’s roof. We find that we can’t turn on the light without the breaker flipping in the fuse box. There is also water marks coming out of the electrical outlet by the sink, and the light switch above it. As there has been probably a dozen buildings that have collapsed from the weight of the snow in the news over the past week, you’ll understand my trepidation while taking a shower.
But that’s not what I wanted to blog about.
Despite all of this, I am making progress with the pubishing and the grand ’silver bullet’. Today, I hope to finish adding the last two artisans on site for the store, which will leave my schedule open for beginning to send out contracts to those writers with writing I see as a welcome addition to DEP. By this time next week, I hope to have a pub schedule finalized for the coming year, and be clear to begin the work on the first book. I also hope that the coming storm being predicted for Monday, including up to 30 more inches of snow will have dissipated into a false alarm, or at least a near miss. In other words, I hope that our electric is on and I’m able to update everyone on where I am in the process, and not reliving the last two weeks of survival mode.
Everyone have a great day. Spring is but a month away.
