Great news!!

I have downloaded and installed my v own Blogger’s Nazi!!!

So cool. It’s this great program that you can get FOR FREE, and it basically goes through your posts looking for opinions, words, or ideas that might be controversial or personal or biased and SUBSTITUTES THEM WITH HAPPY THOUGHTS.

Freakin’ awesome, right?

Never again, on my own personal blog, will you be subjected to rants and opinions and facts that are not 100% bona fide politically correct and respectful to all parties concerned. Sometimes it only changes the nouns. Religious terms, for e, are ALL FLOWER NAMES.

Spiff, no?

It also generates random apologies at least once every day. Everything from the car I drive to my toenails being painted pink and not red (I really do like red. Red is one of my favorite colors—I have LOTS of favorite colors, in fact I don’t have any UNfavorite colors. And sometimes I paint my nails red, but today I thought pink would be ok. But if it’s not let me know, and I’ll CHANGE IT RIGHT AWAY).

No more posts about DAFFODILS. No more posts about WANTING TO MAKE THE WORLD A HAPPIER PLACE.

The triple bliss of never annoying another person in the world again!

Life is good.

Set to the tune of “rain”

Tired, but not ready to go to bed. Dunno.

Long work day editing and then a longer work day with the oldies but not so goodies and then home again in the rainstorm. A quick sampling of Jo’s latest and perhaps greatest pasta: white sauced with parmesan and oranged chicken, garlic and onions and tomatoes all tossed together. Uber fab.

And now just sitting. Having checked my various online sites. Trying not to hear the dog, uneasy and restless in the hallway because he HATES rainstorms. Listening to the occasional frog and the steady rain, and not really interested in reading a few more pages of James Joyce.

I think I don’t want to go to bed, because I know that as soon as I wake up I start another long stretch of editing and then back to work. It’s not like I’m working really hard, but it’s ALL work. Do you know what I mean? There’s no clear line, so I feel the pressure to work all the time. Even my reading is work, because they’re all classics From Which I Must Learn.

I think I need some time off.

Yes, but after this draft is finished. When I’ve sent it safely out to its first batch of test-readers… Of c, then it will be time to start working on draft #3, “The One Where We Fix All Problems With Style & Language.”

Maybe when I go to Florida next month. Maybe that will help. And until then, I could try getting enough sleep and see if that brightens the scan.