93, 737. Have reordered a bit of the opening. Added the dog earlier. Eliminated some redundancy in information presented. Strange how it's so dang hard to take one's own advice. Am in general tired and stressed. But today the writing is going well. sigh I just wish I were better at this. The beady-eyed genius sort from whom writing flows as if from a font of well-formed and grammatical sentences expressing an exciting plot.