The original theme for ASKOF was actually from the Casper movie. It was a midi file (Remember those?) and it worked at the time. I haven't been able to find the exact file. I probably have it on at least one of my old external hard drives, but I'm not sure where. I did find this one, and it's definitely similar.

I switched to the current theme (below) when I restarted the series. The non-midi version of Casper's Lullaby somehow just didn't work.

When this becomes an available-to-the-general-public thing, how cool would it be to make an actual ASKOF episode? I figure we're still at least a couple of years off, but look how far image generating AI has come in a short matter of time.

Late last spring, we decided to move. We aren't far from our last home, but we are further out in a more undeveloped area and frankly, it's nice to be surrounded by trees instead of a bunch of other houses. We closed on our house in early July and then started the move. It's crazy how much stuff you can accumulate when you live in the same place for 16 years, even if you aren't particularly a pack rat.

One of the lovely things about our new home is I have a dedicated writing nook. I've never set aside space like this for myself before. (Pretty much every Trixie story I have ever written was done either sitting on my bed or couch with my laptop on my lap - which I suppose was the original idea behind the name?)

Equally nice is though I have a long commute to and from work, because of my hours, I'm home between 4:15 and 4:30 and I no longer bring hours of work home with me like I did at my previous job. I actually have - gasp!  - free time again.
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I have spent the past month or so re-reading everything. It's been so long, I actually need all the reminders. And dangit, every time I think surely I've caught all the typos, another read-through reveals even more. Wince.

​There have been frequent moments of, "I wrote that?" And not always in a cringe way. Sometimes, I'm all, "Okay, that's not half bad. Go me!" It's the passage of time that's really astounding me lately, though. When I first stumbled across the Trixie fandom online with Barb's original website, my youngest was a baby. She's now 27. The age I was when she was born. I have to keep reminding myself of when these stories are set - what was going on in the world at that time, what technology was available, what the internet was like, etc. I also have to remember what it was like to be a young 20-something person, which was a lot easier to do when I was writing as a 20-something person myself than my present mid-50s.​