Okay, I've heard a few gentle inquiries about the photos I haven't posted yet. You have to understand the low level of my cyber-abilities, which are... low. I have to send update stuff to my webmeister -- webmeistress? -- and I'm so far behind with her that when I think about everything I need to ask her to do I have to go lie down. This is complicated by the fact that I can't go lie down: I'm in a stage with my new book where, having finished, I need to re-read intensely, in big chunks, to feel the rhythm, and the sense of the characters. (Plot? Schmot.) And I can only do that part-time because I've picked up a free-lance gig back in the architecture world, for the health insurance, which is a hard *^%@$*! thing for writers to get, even writers who are otherwise lucky enough to be making a living. I can go into the idiot explanation for that sometime if you want, but it gives me high blood pressure and then I need health insurance. Add to this a project for Sisters in Crime I promised for the 15th of Jan. and one for Mystery Writers of America I promised for the end of the month, and you can see why I went to Florida. To leave every thing behind and finish the book. Which I did.

But I'm back. And everything will get done. Including the photos! Because I'm tired of not doing stuff I want to do, like show you guys the photos, in favor of stuff I don't want to do. One of my other new year's resolutions is to work more and spend less time crapping around. Because you know what? I like work. And another resolution is to cut stuff out that I don't want to be doing. Stuff I don't want to be owning. Stuff that's just stuff.

So, that's my idea of 2008. And look for those photos!