random meanderings

Snow, snow everywhere... but only about 7-8 inches. So much for a Storm of Note. Still, there's time before the season ends, right? And it's actually Not Ungodly Cold this morning, which made shoveling a little less of a chore. Nonetheless, I've bagged all plans for being Elsewhere today, and am working on the book. Chug chug chug. Except a secondary character keeps trying to shove onto the main stage, and isn't taking no for an answer. In every book there's one...

I wonder if I promise him a short story if he'll sit down and behave?

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( Four things in my brain this morning: )

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Cats are incredibly heavy when they're happy. It should be calculated as the Atomic Lap Weight of Felines, or something. I'm losing circulation in my lower body but I don't want to move and disturb her when she's sleeping so nicely. Whipped? Moi?

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And another bit of humor via e-mail from my mother... (most of these have been seen before, but I liked having them all compiled for me)

( INTERESTING PONDERINGS: )

And people ask me why I can't vote for Bush?

Bush Backs Away From His Claims About Iraq Arms
By DAVID E. SANGER
Published: January 28, 2004


WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 — President Bush declined Tuesday to repeat his claims
that evidence that Saddam Hussein had illicit weapons would eventually be
found in Iraq, but he insisted that the war was nonetheless justified because
Mr. Hussein posed "a grave and gathering threat to America and the world."

Asked by reporters if he would repeat earlier expressions of confidence
that the weapons would be found in light of recent statements by the former
chief weapons inspector in Iraq, David A. Kay, that Mr. Hussein had gotten
rid of them well before the war, Mr. Bush did not answer directly.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/28/politics/28PREX.html



Ya-huh. So we take away this that its very very bad to lie under oath about
your sex life, but okay to lie repeatedly to the American people about why
you're sending them to fight and die?

Many of us trusted you when you said there was a high risk. Now we discover
that the documents you cited were "deeply flawed" and there were doubts
raised even at the time you were waving them like the flag. Just like your
claim that Saddam had tried to buy weapons form the Soviet Union. Remember
that? You speak these words, and they are lies, and you seem to neither
know nor care.

We know. We care. We hoped we were wrong when we suspected you were full of shite, but confirmation gives us a vehicle for our anger.

And we will not vote for you.

that wonderful writerly sensation...

When you're just going along, minding your own business, when all of a sudden you shout "Oh, Shit!" loud enough for your spousal down the hall to go "what?"

Because you've just realized that someone dies in this story. And three seconds after that you realize who.


I have no idea how this is going to work, but I know the end result. Heee. This is going to be such fun.

And the character has no idea what's about to happen.


Oh, and out of that we have the new and possibly final working title. Counting Costs.