Did some work on the short story this weekend. It now sits at 3000 words. I figure it will be 6000 by the time I finish the first draft and perhaps 5000 by the time I’m done editing it.
Texas weather time: today we have a high in the seventies, which is how it’s been all weekend. Tomorrow, and for the rest of the week, the lows will be around 25° and highs only in the upper 30s. Brrrr.
I admit that I’ve never watched a Pro Bowl game before, but I was quite amused by what I saw yesterday. It reminded me of a flag football game. I know the game doesn’t mean anything, so no one wants to get hurt, but, seriously, what’s the point? That multi-lateral touchdown by the center at the end was funny, though.
I’ve been reading Sherlock Holmes novels for the past couple of weeks. I downloaded the free versions for my Kindle via Amazon and, for the most part, they were okay. However, the free version of The Hound of the Baskervilles is a mess. Two of the most important documents in the book—the manuscript recounting the Baskerville legend and the news report of Charles Baskerville’s death, both in chapter 2—are missing. The previous paragraphs end with colons, and that’s it. I suspect that whoever converted the text files lost them because they were offset or in a different font or something, but it’s really hard to appreciate the book when the backstory isn’t there. I had to jump off to my computer to read them online before returning to the Kindle.
Looks like everything is reruns on TV tonight. No House, no How I Met Your Mother, no Two and a Half Men, no Castle. A night off for my DVR.
