Don't Tamper With the Property of the U.S. Mail

Sent DRAGON'S TEETH back to the Nice Editor Lady this morning, with the usual plethora of "stet" marks. No, "green-bronze" does not mean the same thing as "green bronze." And in _my_ universe, Humpty Dumpty makes that quote about words meaning whatever he intends them to mean. Not the Red Queen. However, I have heard much worse horror-stories about copy-edits.

Now I can get back to Fat Wizard and the missing FBI agent.

Temperatures today up into the 40s F, with predictions of sub-zero for the weekend. This climactic menopause bit is getting old.

And I ordered two boxes of those "remaindered" SUMMER COUNTRY trade paperbacks, 58 books. Only the march of time will tell whether that represents too many or too few.

Random thought upon watching the Olympic moguls competition

I would _not_ want to own those guys' knees in twenty or thirty years.