And then the summer and autumn months flashed by and I realized I haven’t written here since the end of August.

Firstly an update from my previous post A Sad Farewell. We haven’t made a final decision on Jira or a replacement as yet, although we will be letting the cloud instance of Jira terminate later this year when the annual subscription expires. I did renew the server instance,and we are exploring the options around our own private cloud. That may involve becoming more technical than I want to get, or return to, but we’ll see.

A week or so ago, I published another collection, that’s my fifth collection for the year: Christmas at the Puzzle Store is available from all online retailers, and in paperback from Amazon.

Other highlights are that I replaced my office desk a few weeks ago. I’ve had a huge partner’s desk for the last fifteen years or more, and while I’ve enjoyed the space on the physical desktop, the many drawers and storage cabinets had become a magnet for clutter. I filled a trash bag full of papers and obsolete items like RS-232 cables.

Several people have asked about the next Jacob and Miriam novel, and I can report it’s back in the cross hairs of my focus. I have some thoughts on where it’s headed, but nothing specific yet. More on this as I get closer to the end of writing.