Sunday Writing Update

I got my 3500 words and change for the week, though I did run into the early hours of Monday to do it.

I gave in and let Jorik have his POV spot back in Chapter 1 -- or possibly 1a. This is clarifying some things. My characters have a bad habit of being better at figuring things out than I am at setting puzzles for them.

Also accomplished: taxes all done bar the signing, stapling, folding, and enveloping; a Trader Joe's run; installing Vista SP1. I have not, however, cooked lentils or banana bread, which were supposed to be on today's agenda.

If I wasn't so eager to see my Editor's Complimentary Copies (of, I'm reliably informed, non-Doom), I'd be very tempted to call it a three-day weekend.

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The weather today was about as perfect as it gets around here; temperatures in the seventies, with blue skies and a gentle, fresh breeze. Flowers are everywhere: hot-pink beavertail and hedgehog cactus, orangey-red claret cup, red-gold acacia. The orchid tree is one mass of white bloom, against a background of a bottle-brush tree almost as well covered in dark-red tassels.

So of course, my camera batteries were too flat to let me get more than a few quick and not very well-framed shots. Maybe tomorrow ...