Just thought I’d try out the new settings. It’s a good excuse anyway.
My submission for Mongoose Publishing is really behind. I’m guesstimating that I need to do at least 12,000 words today to make up for lost ground. I was getting some nasty, nasty leg cramps last night which put me completely off my game. My doctor has written up a ‘script for quinine, of all things. The stuff they used for malaria? Sheesh.
Not sure why this has flared up. The RNCC, a veritable goulash of hypocrisy and meanspiritedness, has been going on all week. The news media has given up its roll-over-and-play-dead routine and gone straight to lovin’ on the legs of neocons. Here in the real world, Jamie and I are trying to keep fleas off the new litter of kittens. Most of the last five weeks have been hot and muggy, especially at night. It seems I have so many reasons to choose from. [shrug] Well, I thought it was worth a laugh.
A few quick tidbits for folks, if it ever comes up in their own lives.
- At the RNCC last night, Ahnod the Governator was lying up his carefully crafted backside. Apparently honesty isn’t counted among the rarely codified and loudly touted family virtues. Don’t let anyone get away with stuff like that. Pin them down.
- This has been bugging me for some time. I’m one of several people monitoring right-wing media for Media Matters for America.  The neocon screaming head I’m tracking is a shrill, detestable little gnome by the name of Mark Levin. If you ever hear someone sing his praises, get that person to a professional cult deprogrammer immediately. Those of you who follow the ISA Phoenix Babylon 5 PBEM might have witnessed a caricature of him just recently. Sorry, I had to get it out of my system.
Anyway, I wanted to get all that out. I don’t want to bog folks down in a rant. It’s a time-honored cyberpunk tradition, but I’m not sure if I have the energy for a good old-fashioned Johnny Storm moment anyway.