On the twenty sixth of December, just after midnight, the dogs started fidgeting and woke us up. As soon as the dogs were let outside, they started barking at something like crazy, but within seconds their barks turned into silence. Our greenhouse was burning.

And so, I've spent the night helping to put out the fire, and then I've spent the following day cleaning out the ashes, and salvaging anything that survived. Even though the structure has burned down, and the pots have melted into plates, the plants have merely withered away. However, with the below freezing temperatures, there's not much we can save. Though there's a lesson to learn - always inspect the greenhouse before turning on the heater.

As for the tale of Antidotum, I've had a very busy year, so there wasn't much time for me to write. Still I'm happy that I've managed to update as much as is presented below.

Beta release: array one
Alpha release: up to variable hundred twenty two
Latest draft written: variable hundred sixty nine
Total words published: 37'9730

On this day, my dear tale of Antidotum turned seven yrold. Sadly, I couldn't celebrate it, because I got caught in a storm while driving and I couldn't even reach my destination that day. Late at night I decided to stop by a hotel, because there was no way I could make it anywhere, when the storm was so bad that I couldn't see in front of my car, while driving on unfamiliar roads in another state. And the clouds covered the sky making the night too dark for words to describe it. Yes, it was definitely an adventure, but not the one I asked for.

Anyway, two days later I decided that as a way to celebrate my growing tale of Antidotum, from now on, I'll be summarizing the progress once a year each year, in the same manner as parents sometimes mark their children's height on their birthdays. Of course, a tale doesn't have a height, but it certainly does have its length, and that's what I'll keep a record of.

So on the twenty sixth of December of the year twenty hundred twenty two, the progress of the tale of Antidotum was as follows.
Alpha release: up to variable ninety seven
Latest draft written: variable hundred fifty four
Total words published: 33'0827

The story was imagined between the years 1990-2012.

Sometime in the Fall of 2015 I started writing it.

25 January 2017 - the oldest file in Google Drive

26 December 2018 - the date of baptism, aka the story was named

1 January 2019 - the online website was created

24 April 2022 - my life changed upside-down

25 December 2022 - I decided to publish the tale

16 April 2023 - variable zero moved from alpha to beta release

29 May 2023 - the first illustration was completed

TBD - variable zero moved from alpha to pre-prod

TBD - volume one moved from pre-prod to prod