The cold front arrived in full force this morning. It was 28° when I got up, and I heard there was snow in north Texas, as much as 2-5″. None here, of course.
I finished tidying up an interview I conducted for Cemetery Dance this morning. One more polish pass and I’ll send it off. I’m getting prepped for a short story that features characters from three previous works (two published, one in submission) by rereading those stories and making notes for continuity. I never consciously decided to use these characters more than once, but I’ve found a way to do so and it might be cool some day to bundle them all up into a collection of sorts.
What if you held a football game and nobody came? I was going to watch Monday Night Football last night but one of the teams didn’t show up. That would be the Houston Texans, who got royally thrashed by the Patriots. If only they’d stayed in Texas a few more days, they might have gotten used to the cold weather before heading up to New England. By the time it was 21-0 and the second quarter wasn’t done yet, I gave up and went to bed. That’s a time-honored tradition for me. My parents used to comment how, when I was a kid, I always went to bed if my hockey team (usually the Montreal Canadiens) was losing. No chance of that this year since the NHL strike is still ongoing.
I received the package of page proofs for The Dark Tower Companion yesterday. I don’t have to get them back to my editor until the first few days of January, but I’ll probably try to finish up with them before Christmas. It’s an impressive stack of paper. Printed on only one side, so twice as thick as the book will be, but it’s still a ream of paper that I have to scrutinize for typos, formatting errors and other glitches.
Only one episode left to this season’s Homeland. This one hasn’t been as good as the first, in part because they force the characters to do things that stretch credibility. Like the painfully long scene in the Vice President’s office. This season reminds me more of 24 than of the first season of the series. But there are still some excellent moments, such as the scene between Jess and Brody in their car after they are out of protective custody. That was good stuff.
