What happened, I wonder, to the May portion of the journal I started before I left on our trip? Because I named this “trip journal” on the laptop, and the previous part of May should be on the G4. I’m baffled. It’s obsessive, perhaps, but I hate losing parts of my journal; it feels like I’ve lost part of my life. (We all know how lousy my memory is.) I woke up this morning with a wild hair to figure out how many Styx concerts I’ve been to in my life, and as part of that project, I went through my journals since 2000, when I started keeping one (I didn’t go online for another year or so). I’d forgotten that The Great Hard Drive Crash of November ’03 (aka Maxtor Hard Drives Suck) made me lose several months of my journal (although I just remembered, stupid me, that it’s online. Sheez), and I found that disturbing.

(Oh, and I know I’m still forgetting a couple of concerts, but it looks like last night was about #25. Coooool. That’s 21 years of concert-going, although there were gaps between 1983 and 1991, and 1991 and 1996, when Styx wasn’t together. The most I’d ever been to in a year before this year was four. Lest all this sound completely insane, let me mention that I know people who see 25+ each year. I’m a lightweight.)

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Heard from Harlequin today. They don’t want to see Sarah’s and my Blaze, A Little Night Music. I think that the synopsis didn’t convey what the book is really like, in hindsight, and I take full responsibility for that failure. I know it’s a good book—certainly better than some of the Blazes that I’ve read—and I’m disappointed that it’s not going to get a chance. Sarah’s more circumspect about this than I am, which I envy. We’re going to decide which one to write next (our previous plan had been to write about ALNM’s heroine’s best friend, which is certainly still an option, but less urgent now), and dive in when I visit next month. I do believe that eventually we _will_ sell one, and one we have a rapport with the editor, we can pitch ALNM again.

(And yes, it took me most of the day to say all that dispassionately.)

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We watched the second-to-last “Angel” ep tonight, which was pretty darn good, although in some levels predictable. We’ve been exhausted all day, though, and have elected to go to bed rather than watch the next one. We’re up early tomorrow to head to Sacramento for another concert.

We’ve been so exhausted, in fact, that we ended up not going to a birthday party tonight—once which I thought was important enough to go to that I didn’t get tickets for the concert in Concord tonight. Sucks, neh?

I’m not sure where the day went. I went through all the mail, edited and designed everything that I have for the GP so far (a fair amount is still missing, though), made food (although nothing that took more than 5 minutes’ prep time, because we never did really go food shopping; I walked to 7-11 at one point and bought a frozen pizza, ice cream, and bbq potato chips—what a nourishing lunch), and watched TV (the final “Frasier” stuff and two eps of “The West Wing” as well as “Angel”). Ken actually took a nap at one point, he was so wiped out.

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Here’s irony for you: The actor who played Drogyn in “Angel” will be Barnabas in the WB’s remake of “Dark Shadows”, the show that’s essentially replacing “Angel”.