Vacation! and this and that . . .

Yes, I am on vacation all next week.

What am I planning? Well, I have around ten characters who have to have an extremely unpleasant demise. In other words, I'm hoping to be over halfway through this spec script by this time next Friday. Plus, Atari (my dog) has his yearly physical Monday morning. His shots, that sort of thing.

Atari, as I've said previously, is really old for an Akita. Their life expectancy is eight years--I'm estimating around the first of September Atari will be 13. He's got arthritis, so he doesn't get around all that well any more, and his kidneys are failing. Plus he has this skin condition that's common to Akitas (and Shiba Inus, too--but really they're just min-Akitas). So he has a tendency to get skin infections. I don't think he has one of those right now, though--he's actually doing pretty well in that area.

But he hates it when it rains--I think it stiffens his joints right up. Poor boy. I know the medicine helps, but not enough, I know.

I have noticed that Atari's relationships with cats sort of mimic my relationships with women. He thinks they're beautiful, fascinating, fun to be around . . . and they think he is either beneaith their notice or they are terrified of him. Been there, done that . . .

Tonight I'm watching Eureka and Haven on Syfy. Other than that, and listening to some music, I'm just chilling. Trying not to think too hard about things. I have a big decision to make--problem with it is I'm supposed to make this decision withou the bare minimum of information. I won't go into details yet, but it involves my job. I'll blog about it soon, I promise. If you care.

What are you doing this weekend? Something fun? Working, What?