a post for USAians and other folk as are interested....

Busy day today (I have to go into Manhattan to pace out a scene... oh the trauma that is my life -- and then tax stuff. Okay, there's trauma) but I figured I'd leave you with one really useful thing today:

http://www.recovery.gov/


Between that and whitehouse.gov, I'm thinking we're actually on our way to achieving the "transparent government for the people, by the people" dream. Or being snowed by the abuse of direct communication medium. I'm sure both sides have their wignuttery arguments. It's still so very very cool.

various and sundry take a tax deduction

Galley Slave alert! Galleys are going out this week. Everyone should stow their oar and rest up...

As I mentioned this morning, part of my day was spent doing site research. It's a small scene but an important one, and has repercussions not only for this book, but for the entire series, and into the Retrievers series as well. So it needed to be right and, while I'd been there before, I needed to know specifics. Because if you're going to ask people to suspend their disbelief, you've got to give them a sturdy chair to stand on.

( some photos behind the cut, for them as are interested. )

And then I had Tax Joy (not), and then on to ( puppy therapy. )

And, to end this day on the proper note of OMGWTF, from AP:

"About a quarter of the nation's TV stations cut off their analog signals Tuesday, causing sets to go dark in households that were not prepared for digital television. Though most viewers were ready, some stations and call centers reported a steady stream of questions from frustrated callers."

Guys. If you have a tv, and watch it enough to know your signal's been cut, you should have been tipped to the fact that this was planned.... two years ago? There's been television coverage, newspaper articles, and congressional debate on the topic, all front and center and not covert at-farking-all. So if you were still caught off guard, unprepared, and clueless enough to complain about it/ask what was going on?

*facepalm*

And now I have to try and get some wordage in. *whimpers*