I am having A Day

Today has been filled with all sorts of frustrations minor and major, and most of them things I can't do more than file complaints about (including a shipment of wine that seems to have gone AWOL. The company -- a small CA winery -- is deeply abashed and promises to make good with a fresh shipment, but the ARGH level is high).

However, despite the universe's best efforts, I've accomplished a reasonable amount of work, including 1500 words on BLOOD FROM STONE (aka Retrievers 6) and a load of much-needed laundry.

Tonight? More work. Plans for this holiday weekend? A lot more work. Plus an outing to see CASABLANCA on the big screen for the very first time. I'm not sure it will actually improve it any -- it's such an intimate story, seeing it large-scale seems wrong somehow. We'll see. Ah, such an exciting life I lead. I'm sure you're all just fascinated.


And in case anyone cares about life forms other than their own:

( Judge OKs Rule That May Endanger Species )

And now a glass of single malt beckons with a come-hither waft of peat and smoke...

argh, take 2

there is apparently a "social networking site" that got hold of one person in the horror/sf field, and, er, Retrieved that person's address book and sent invites to everyone in it. One of those people was me. Because the person in question is generally trustworthy, I made the mistake of clicking to see what hir was trying to talk me into. I backed out quickly, but the damage may have been done.

If anyone gets an e-mail allegedly from me referencing "Quechup," please delete it immediately, and my apologies....

*mutters about badly designed and annoyingly aggressive sites and the programmers who spawn them*