Reading: Zombies of the Gene Pool
Music: John Hartford
TV/Movie: Pathfinder
Link o' the Day: Ansible Home Page

Day One of unemployment. I didn't spend the day in naught but a bathrobe. I got up early--around the same time I've always gotten up, and tried to catch up on the e-mail that stacked up over the weekend. I did a few morning chores, and came home to do some more work until Pretty Maggie left for work. Sadly, she wasn't feeling well today. She called in and got a doc appointment for this morning, so we went and got all that taken care of. When we got home I took advantage of having the car available to me and went and did the chores I usually do on the weekend (banking, laundry, groceries, etc.). Took a short nap. Did some housecleaning. Did some reading. Did a little more housecleaning.

Pretty quiet day, actually. We're sort of treating today like the third day of a three-day weekend. We were in Long Island (on Long Island?) over the weekend visiting her mother. A very nice visit. Had some very good seafood at the Steamroom at Port Jeff (in Port Jeff), walked around and browsed all the local shops. Slept late on Sunday then went to visit the outlet mall in Riverhead. I discovered that the Bass outlet store does not carry fishing gear. It's a line of clothing, apparently. Boo.

So lots of driving, but the weather actually held out much better than we expected for this weekend. Today, however, is chilly and blustery, so a good day to stay indoors.

It's now evening. Dinner is cooking. I'm gearing up to work on the Zorro book some more.

And the day continues. If I do some good work tonight, I chill out with some fanzine reading.

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Speaking of fanzines, I'm reading Zombies of the Gene Pool now and it's so much better than Bimbos. Less mean. Much more thoroughly researched. I've a feeling that In Search of Wonder by Damon Knight will likely be my next re-read.

More on this anon.

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Today's link goes to the Ansible Home Page. For those who don't know, Ansible is probably the best currently-running fanzine out there. A many-times-over winner of the Hugo, and author Dave Langford is its many-times-over winner of the Hugo for Best Fan Writer. It's probably the best newssheet out there for the SF world. Yes, better than a href="http://www.locusmag.com">Locus News.

Cheers!