Reading: Bukowski, Rowling, and NYer
Music: Punk-o-Rama Epitaph

It�s been a pretty annoying day today thus far. I wouldn�t normally begrudge my office partner a day off, but it�s clear from what I�ve had to deal with today that he knew this was all coming in yesterday. Yet there is no note of warning or instruction.

So I�m winging it. Hope I don�t mess anything up. That would be a shame.

Really.

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Hopefully today will be the day Pretty Maggie and I pick up a second cat (knock-on-wood). Oh, it�s going to be a mess. Knocked over shelves, garbage cans, cups.

But it�ll be fun, and Nemo will enjoy the company.

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The latest freelance project, the Bickersons book, is steaming along. I did a basic layout of the text last night. Tonight I�m going to format the scripts and address some typographic issues, and insert the photos over the next couple of days after that. With luck I�ll have a first draft turned back in by Sunday evening. (Although tonight I also have to tweak the SFWA mailing list file and e-mail that to the printers. Busy busy!)

Writing and drawing? Haven�t done too much lately, and I really need to. I have a number of projects in various stages now, sitting frozen on my laptop, waiting for me to tackle them. I�ll have to see what I can do about that.

One time-eater lately has been me doing a lot of reading. Aside from devouring the latest New Yorker and perusing Charles Bukowski�s short stories, I went and started the third Harry Potter book. This is sort of interesting in that it�s the first HP book I�ve read without seeing the movie version. I�ve seen some previews which don�t give out many (if any) details, so I�m using my imagination as the writer hoped in picturing the events, rather than playing them off memories of a movie screen. And the books continue to be well-written.

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No link today. No time to find one and post at the same time. Why don�t y�all send me your links this time. There ya go!

Cheers!