slipjig3 | Ahem. Attention, please:

The Elmsley Count? Is DONE.

Oh, hell to the yes. Since this morning's post, I finally killed off the last of the replacement vocal tracks, fought off the temptation to record a 12th track (well, okay, I spent a half-hour trying and failing to make a 12th track work before I decided to save it for my second album), got the final front and back cover art and label art from

figmentj, and proceeded to kill two separate CD burners in my attempts to produce a single hard copy of the damned thing, but gods, was it worth it. I can't stop just looking at the thing, in my hands at last after a year and a half's work—longer, if you consider that there are songs of mine on here that date back to the 1990's.

The good news, aside from my no longer whinge-posting about how the CD still isn't done, is that the tentative schedule put forth in the earlier post is a definite go: digital sales will begin on Tuesday, November 22, with advance physical copies available at the Heather Dale show on Monday, November 21. Also, I'm currently in negotiations with

shadesong and

yendi about doing a house concert of my own sometime in January, which we'll hopefully be able to arrange in the very near future.

...ye gods, this is really happening, isn't it?