Got the typewriter to work!
Didn't realize the amount of muscle it would necessitate just to type a sentence. Wholly unpractical as a writing instrument, but I can see myself incorporating it into some mixed media art on paper, or into some of my mixed media pocket journaling.
In other news:
Finished the thank you portraits that go into the back end of THE SOLAR GRID collected edition, and received the foreword from someone very dear to me. Still waiting on the introduction and afterword, after which all the material for the book should more or less be complete.
Things fell apart with the publisher lined up for TIMES NEW HUMAN, so have to start reconsidering the best route to release it.
PROJECT ROSEWATER which started at the tail end of 2025 is trudging along but seems to have hit a rough patch.
GANZEER.COM updates still underway and are likely to carry on till the end of next week, by which point work on my kitchen just might also be complete.
There is talk of a project that involves some travel towards the end of February. We shall see.