Once more into the breach

Despite Stoopid Tech Tricks (Dear Testing Software Provider: If your online tests will only function with Internet Explorer, might you not SAY SO in your dern instructions? Love and kisses, Rolanni), I completed seven skills modules and have an appointment with an agency in Augusta on Tuesday-next, which is progress, of a sort.

We've seen a copy of the concept sketch from which the cover of Web of the Trident will be painted and it is interesting. Looking forward to seeing the painting. Which is progress of another sort.

A check arrived today. Much less than the amount we had been promised, and several days later, but far be it from me to spurn or decry any check with our names on it that doesn't bounce.

kinzel and I did a brief tour of the former Hathaway clothing manufactury, which is destined to become mixed-use retail, office, and residential. Interesting space; solid maple floors; four inch thick brick walls; lousy, leaky windows giving onto a glorious view of the Kennebec River.

Dulsey is working on the concept of "being a lady." This is, you understand, an uphill battle, but I've explained that it will stand her in good stead on her way to World Dominion.

Mozart still hates to be brushed, and -- yes, it's raining.

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