A maybe stormy Saturday night randomicity

It's been a bit of a roller coaster this week.

I can't really talk about work other than to say things are tough out there right now and everybody is trying to save as much money as they can. It could be worse. And so forth.

Things are pretty stressfull family-wise, too--I don't know everything that's going on there so I will refrain from commenting on it. It's just how things seem to go, I guess.

Offset that with the good news that my beautiful, talented, perfect little eight year old goddaughter, Talyan, will be reprising her role as Ava on Two and a Half Men. I figured they would have her back but it's nice to now know for sure. I'm very proud of her and I know she and her mom are very excited. Talyan is happiest when she's on set, I think. A little superstar in the making.

www.weather.com insists that this thunder I keep hearing is an hallucination--the map does not show any storms in this area and there probably won't be tonight. But it's awfully dark outside, and, as I said, I keep hearing this thunder . . . of course, I could just be losing my mind. It wouldn't take much at this point.

The redo of my first draft of this novel is coming along pretty well. I'm calling it The Singers in the Eternal Night, and it's science fiction/horror. Emphasis on the "horror." Still got a long way to go with it.

The problem I'm having is the next project on my to-do list, another science fiction/horror novel I'm calling The Harvester of Faces, is starting to clamor for my attention. That one is more like science fiction with horrific elements and it is by gawd gonna wait its turn! Dammit! I'll probably make some notes for it, plot some things out, that sort of thing, just to get my muse to calm down and focus on the issue at hand.

I'm still missing Atari terribly. I think every one of my neighbors has a dog and they all walk them when I'm out and about.

That's what's on my mind, this possibly stormy Saturday evening.