Clearing the mental registers

Latest reading / writing progress: Finished a re-read of Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising, which is like The Lord Of The Rings of military thrillers; long and complicated, but internally consistent and plausible and worth the read if you can stick it out. Trying to read Terry Pratchett's Men At Arms or The Truth, but I keep stalling in the early pages of each. Last year, Witches Abroad did a much better job of sucking me in.

Wrote a bunch of flavor text last night, and a few hundred words for "Cat Out Of Hell" over the weekend. Also figured out what the MacGuffin should be for "That Goat Doesn't Belong To You", making it more a part of the story and slightly less of a MacGuffin.

Our Lord of the Rings CCG is addictive, and I'm not saying that as an employee, either. raininva keeps killing me at the Bridge of Khazad-Dum, though.

I got honked at on the way to work this morning because someone mistimed his sudden acceleration and wasn't able to cut me off as he'd planned. I guess he was trying to say, How dare you prevent me from being rude to you!

I did nothing for Mardi Gras last night, continuing a tradition I've maintained as long as I can remember. I will probably continue that tradition next month in a few months for Cinco de Mayo too. But at least Card Night will probably be a go this weekend - MarsCon and sicknesses have put a damper on the last few.

Just discovered NeoOffice, the OS X port of OpenOffice. Basic MS Word / Excel functionality, for free? I knew this had to suck... except it doesn't. Now I've got it installed on all the machines I use at work or home.

And that's Wednesday morning.