The galleys for A Darker Crimson came Tuesday or maybe it was Monday, it's kind of a blur. Whoever made sense of Chris's changes and my changes must be some kind of genius puzzle solver. Probably he or she is at home recovering from a severe case of eye-strain. Anyway, I've been through the first pass, will make another soon. I'd like to get this in the mail tomorrow, otherwise, it'll have to be Monday.

In other news, this afternoon I made wooden stakes. For killing rogue vampires. (Why? what were you thinking?) I meandered down to the creek in search of suitable wood. Found some, but the better wood was already in the burn pile. For those of you who aren't familiar with the phrase, here in Sonoma County where summer = no rain whatsoever, the grass is extremely dry. So no fireworks in the country and no fires outside either. So, if you want to burn agricultural waste - like branches left over after pruning etc, you have to wait for winter and then get a permit. So everyone has a big old pile of branches, etc waiting to be burned come winter. Also, I saw an interesting branch in the neighbor's field, so I made my son go get it. Anyway, turns out no one knows where any of the 2-3 axes are, and maybe that's just as well because probably I would have hurt myself. I found two rusty saws and one of them cut well enough. But there's there's 3-D spatial thing you need going for you to get to a pointy end on a stake, and a big rusty saw makes that kind of hard. But I found a rasp and that did the pointy-end trick once I got the rough cut. So, anybody who thought angry villagers or vampire hunters had it easy going out to get wooden stakes is just wrong, I am here to tell you that right now.

Nothing else is going on. Life is dull and boring. But I have all my fingers and given my stake experience, that's good.