Technical Difficulties

71,500 words. Twenty-three chapters complete, without any ?s left in them except as punctuation. WIKTORY!

Now I am going to go exercise. mirrorthaw bought me the EA Sports Active--for those who are interested, I like it much better than the Wii Fit. It's more flexible, more responsive, and it provides a much more balanced workout. Also, it does not NAG me.

Meanwhile, Pandora is providing Cab Calloway. There was Mississippi John Hurt earlier. Life is not too shabby.

The Wii Fit totally tried to get me to rat mirrorthaw out tonight.

Another half hour last night with the Wii. Was completely thrown off by suddenly having the male trainer "filling in" for my female trainer on the first exercise of the evening. Mercifully, he went away after that, but it was the worst halfmoon pose I've done in quite some time. wtf, Nintendo?

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Thank you to everyone who has commented with support for and love of my books on the previous post. I appreciate it a great deal more than I can express.

Thank you also to casacorona, who stepped up to the plate to explain how things look from the publishers' apex of the triangle. A thankless task--for which I thank you!

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Also pursuant to the previous post, the April Locus has a review of Corambis by Faren Miller, which includes phrases like "Monette displays both wicked powers of invention and something like sly wit" and says the ending "should satisfy even the rare cynical reader who hasn't already been won over by Monette's gifts for character, voice, and great prose." So I'm feeling better.

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Catzilla got me up this morning by sitting on my pillow and draping his incredibly fluffy tail across my face. I hope that this was a mere accident and not actually, you know, planned. Because if it was planned, I am so doomed.

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I regularly tell Catzilla (he whom we rescued from the flower bed) that he doesn't know how lucky he is, and given the size and scope of his brain, it's true. One of the feralistas who hangs out on and around our porch is a long-haired brown tabby (named Hilary in honor of Sarah Caudwell's Hilary Tamar, because I have yet to figure out what sex s/he is), and poor Hilary has, I noticed this morning, a mat large enough to be mistaken for a kitten on his/her right haunch. S/he also has dead leaves matted into his/her tail, and in general needs the kind of grooming help that s/he is much too skittish to allow.

It's hard to be a fluffy kitty. This is something even Catzilla knows.

30 min.

I have to admit, the Wii people did find one of my buttons: the sense of progress bestowed by unlocking new activties pleases me, even though I know I'm being manipulated.

half an hour with the Wii Fit.

The little animated Wii Fit board is cute and perky and it is totally Big Brother. Not unlike the incredibly cute alien at the Congressional hearings in Bloom County.