Post Chinese take out randomocity

Just enjoyed some nice chicken in black pepper sauce from Bamboo Garden--mmmmm . . . Atari dug it, too, and there's enough left for lunch tomorrow, as well. I don't know how some people leave Chinese food in their fridges long enough to spoil. Doesn't last more than a couple days in mine.

I did want to bring this book to your attention. Yes, the author is a very good friend. But forgive my bias and buy it, for yourself or for anyone you know who loves vampires. This will give you a taste of what a real, traditional vampire is like.

Creatively not much is going on with me, these days. I've got ideas for stuff but nothing that jumps up and down and waves to get my attention. I'm wondering if this isn't a symptom of some sort of larger problem, maybe.

I dunno. Right now I'm not going to worry about it. I'm sure something will strike me as a worthwhile project. In the mean time I'm going to reread some of my older stuff to see if it still strikes me as good enough to publish. In particular a novel I wrote a while back that, of course, utterly failed to even get looked at by an editor or agent. I liked it at the time--let's see if I still like it after being away from it for a while.

Atari is doing well. He had a cancer scare--he went to the vet for a bladder infection and the vet noticed suspicious cells in his urine sample--but he's been declared cancer-free. As far as anyone can tell. He does have a large stone in his bladder that will make him prone to get bladder infections, but that is something he can live with. He also has an enormous spleen but the doc took samples of it and the lab he sent it do found no cancerous cells in it. So, it's just a symptom of old age.

Sort of makes me wonder just how big *my* spleen is!