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So I had kind of a bumpy two weeks there. I had to do some housesitting, which wound up complicating my schedule in a way that wrecked my concentration, and I had some other things to get done as well. I also had a hard time with "Invalid Item"  (public) / "The Brain Twister"  (interactive). I got the first 2/3rds written pretty quickly, but then got stuck.

Part of the problem is that a chapter like that feels both necessary and like wheel-spinning. For genre reasons it feels necessary; also, given Grant's characterization, it seems like something that needed to be written out explicitly. But it's a chapter that doesn't really advance things, and the choice at the end doesn't look like an obvious advance either.

I actually do have one of the choices written, so if you guys vote wisely, you will definitely get a chapter tomorrow. If you don't vote wisely that will probably be okay too, because I'm pretty sure I know what would happen in the alternate.