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This book is gonna end me, I swear.

I'm actually almost through with the rewrite of Dead Isle; I have to fix two major things and do a read-through for minor-but-pervasive problems (description, always description) and then this rewrite will be done, though I'm running it past one final check with specific people before it goes to typesetting.

I also have a decision to make about ( Cut for spoilers, in case you haven't read it. )

I do find it a little eerie that I wrote this book in the midst of a huge family upheaval involving my brother immigrating illegally to Australia, and now that I'm nearly done, we're in the middle of a huge family upheaval over him coming back for a visit. It's an appropriate parallel, I suppose. I'm mostly glad the whole mess never poisoned the book for me, and that while it may end me I still love it.

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THIS IS AN AMAZING MILKSHAKE.

So, about a week ago I made some ice cream, or I suppose some frozen custard, because I made it with an egg base. The custard requires five egg yolks, and of course the problem is always "What do I do with the egg whites don't say meringues I don't own a stand mixer". (Yes, I know you can make them without a stand mixer, but it's way too much work.) Then foxxydancr piped up that she had a cake recipe that used egg whites, and I was all over that shit. This is some magnificent fucking cake, you guys.

But! It was a little on the dry side, so I soaked it in a lemon glaze, which kind of helped but not totally. And the ice cream was a little bland, because I forgot to add flavoring, and also homemade ice cream, once frozen, is not as easy to scoop or eat as commercial ice cream. At least, mine isn't.

So then I made a cake milkshake.

I put a slice of cake in the blender and turned it to crumb, then added a few scoops of ice cream which made a very pretty slurry, then added some milk and poured the whole thing into a cup and VOILA. THE MOST LABOR INTENSIVE MILKSHAKE IN THE COUNTRY.

Thus, in the end, the eggs were reunited.

I shoulda just made a really big omelette.