Didn't do a lick of writing today. Didn't read much either. Played a cool card game with my son. Three Dragon Ante, which is a Dungeons and Dragons thing, and it's the most fun I've had in a while. (Draw what conclusions you will from that remark and you're probably right). We also worked on a new puzzle. I had a wonderful email today from someone who said really great things about A Darker Crimson. There have been a few recently, which does my soul good. Emails like that mean a lot. In other news, I watched TV for the first time in, gosh, years. Mythbusters. Interesting show - all 10 minutes of it wedged in between the commercials. I worked on the puzzle during the commercials and just walked over when it seemed like it was one. I had no idea there were so many commercials on TV. Horrible, really. What a waste. Why does anyone bother?

It's raining a lot here. Flood warnings all over and the back roads, which are mostly what is available to us where we live, are sort of iffy. We live on a slope so flooding isn't an issue here. But when I went to get coffee yesterday, the place was full of Ranchers and Farmers because Highway 101 was closed. They looked kind of lost. A couple of times the wind blew so hard today, I was sure some of the trees would come down. Year before last they did and we had to chainsaw our way out. We're OK where we are but many other parts of the County are not. If you build on a floodplain, your house will eventually have water in it.

However, the really best thing today is that I spent almost all day thinking it was Monday and that I had to go back to work tomorrow and I don't! YIPEE!!!

Last night I started the Art of Hacking, which is pretty interesting, but brain busting. That will not be a quick read. A Feast For Crows is by the bed and I'm not tired...