Temperature in the forties

On New Year's Day, in Maine. 'Tain't natural. We'll have to pay for this. Snatched a walk from the jaws of winter, though, so that's a plus.

Did a chapter of revisions this morning, very little from the editor on _that_ one. The next will involve a lot of cutting, because it doesn't advance the story enough. Says she. She didn't mark the cuts, but I'm going to dump one scene entirely with just a sniff in passing.

Minor gloom in Mudville

Well, Michigan lost the Rose Bowl by one point, a field goal with time expired. You could, with equal accuracy, say that Texas won by the same margin. Glass half full, or half empty? Our connection with Michigan has enough dust on it to count as archaeological strata....

Of zero importance in the cosmic scheme of things.