Ferry tale

Still working on the short story I’ve been yammering on about for nearly two weeks now. I think I know what I want to do with the end, but I’m not sure anyone’s going to like it. Endings are hard, because you want to bring a story to some sort of resolution, but not everything wraps up neatly and unhappy endings are sometimes unresolved ones, sort of like the way “The Mist” peters out.

This weekend I’m going to take a stab at taxes. All I’ve done so far is install TurboTax and enter the tax information we’ve received from our day jobs and banks. That’s the easy stuff. I always print out our check register so we can both go over everything to identify tax deductible expenses. Then we comb through the credit card statements to do the same thing. I have a separate electronic file where I keep track of writing income and outgo for my schedule C. All I have to do for that now is group individual expenses into categories (postage, photocopying, etc.) so I’ll be ready to enter that into TurboTax.

Grey’s Anatomy was good last night. A nice book-end device with the bathtub and Puget Sound, and a cliffhanger. Even better, though, was C.S.I., with the resolution to the Keppler subplot. I’m glad, though, that Grissom is finally going to open that dad-blamed carton on his desk and we get to revisit the miniaturist story which seemed to be wrapped up earlier this year. I had the impression that Griss was writing Sarah a “Dear Jane” letter while he was away but changed his mind. The fact that she put his parting gift—the cocoon—in his office doesn’t bode well for them, either.

Thoughts on Survivor: Good to see an established show take some risks with new formula. The woman did a good job of balancing the teams and making sure Rocky and Dreamz weren’t on the same team. I’ve seen message board threads that sounded like their middle-of-the-night debate. I would be seriously worried about all those poisonous snakes, which are supposed to play into things within the next week or two. I wonder if the next person who goes to Exile island will also find out that the idol is near camp and so on, which means that eventually a lot of people could know to look around camp. And since the camps are on different islands, doesn’t that mean there must be two idols, one near each camp? Else the other team wouldn’t have access to finding it.