Welcome to New England. If you don't have all-wheel drive, please stay home.

Well, we have had our ice storm. We can not do that again this season, please? Because yes, very pretty and shiny and eye-wateringly bright this morning, but a righteous pain in the patoot to clean up after.

Darcy, however, once again comes through like the trooper he is -- while other people on the street were trying to cut out of the ice banks and swearing as their cars slipped, skidded, and generally didn't want to move, with a little digging around the tires, my little Audi That Could just hopped over the ice crust and rolled out into the plowed areas.

*pets Darcy*


Next time? More snow and less sleet, please. Much more fun.

A Very Important Question....

that you can blame windrose for...

[Poll #1107672]

progress, even if it doesn't feel like it yet

I officially started The Project Eating My Brain today. 1,600 words and every damn one of them like dragging a boulder through quicksand. Once I get into the rhythm it will be easier, I know that. But the style and tone is so very different from everything else I've been doing, it takes re-wrapping the brain around the basic skillsets, to get it right. Oh gods, I hope I'm getting it right. It's important to get it right.

This book, unlike the Retrievers series, is going to need a soundtrack. A weird mix, with a lot of jazz and opera. I guess I'm going to have to finally learn how to burn a mix, huh?

Taking a break to cuddle with the felines and watch the PBS "Great Performances" version of The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny tonight. Fascinating, and yet... not satisfying. I'm not quite sure why. Gorgeous music and voices, though.

And, to ease your transition into Tuesday, some humor forwarded via m'dad. You see? I come by it honestly! Or at least genetically!

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( HUMOR FOR LEXOPHILES )

yes, yes, I know. *groan*