Sigh...

...started the day by locking myself out the house; which I haven't done since the new windows were installed. I can now report with accuracy that the new windows are far superior to the old, and not just in terms of keeping winter on the outside.

Several months ago, as part and parcel of the Black Dog Blues, I signed off of all my mailing lists. Around the beginning of the month, I decided to phase them back in one at a time, so as not to overload my nervous system. Alas, the single list that I added (on the basis that it's a little slow and mostly good-natured), has erupted into an argument about topic drift, what it is and what it ain't.

Now I (like some others on the list) happen to like topic drift, but I'm sort of a discursive thinker, and often answer questions by way of Robin Hood's Barn, not because it's the only road I know, but because I like the scenery.

However, there are apparently some folks who have zero tolerance for digression. They want the facts, only the facts, and in as short a paragraph as possible. This baffles me, but sobeit.

In any case, I suppose it's inevitable that the two camps will clash, but it's extremely tiresome, and more personally upsetting than it should be, which does serve as an Outcome to this particular experiment.

Guess I'll sign off and try again later...

In Other News, it's a sunny, breezy, perfectly lovely day in the neighborhood, and I have errands to run.

Relief and Amaze

The relief is because I have finally and at last finished the Chapter From Hell, which shall henceforth be known as Chapter Ten. Rarely have I been so glad to type the words "Chapter Eleven." Let my pain and suffering be a Lesson to All. In writing fiction, you can't just change one thing.

Amaze is provided by SFSite, where this review of Crystal Dragon by sartorias appears.

And now, as a reward for having toughed it out to the end of Chapter Ten, I'm going to go read Narbonic Three.