Current location:	in bed
Current mood:	exhausted
Entry tags:	football, personal, writing

Housekeeping and writing new words
Last night, I watched the Superbowl with Michael. He's a Pittsburgh fan, so not only did he explain the game (which made it much more interesting), but I got to experience the concept of cheering for a team that actually won a championship. (For those of you scratching your heads at this point, I'm a Toronto Maple Leafs fan. Need I say more??). I thoroughly enjoyed the evening.

Today, I made my way to Chapters and worked on the novel for a couple of hours. The first half hour or so, I was struggling to get into it, so I did some housekeeping, doing word counts for each chapter and ensuring that my scribble notes were up to date with the latest changes. That got me into a proper writing mood and I got a good 1000 new words into the novel and deleted at least that many (maybe more) that didn't belong (from the old storyline).

Then my writing buddy Pat Forde dropped by and we chatted about SF, the state of novel publishing, the coolest new magazines, and many more interesting and complex topics.

After, I took the Jeep in for an oil change and was treated to some other procedure that "had to be done" which set me back a couple of hundred bucks. I soooo wish I knew more about cars -- enough that I could be more confident that I don't have a big "mark" on my back!

In the update-on-my-health department, the doc gave me antibiotics Friday which are working now. But they're knocking me out. It's only 8:20 and I'm thinking about calling it a night. Ah well, sleep heals.