Reading: Best American Comics - 2008
Music: Velvet Crush
TV/Movie: BBC's The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Link o' the Day: recipe for Chocolate Truffle Cookies

Meet my latest...obsession. Okay, you've met it before. This makes the fourth time I've ranted about Lost. We're over halfway through season 3 right now and with every question answered, two more arise. Pretty Maggie and I seem to be on a mission to watch all the past episodes so we can dive into Season 5 starting January 21. I doubt we're going to make the deadline, but we're hoping that we can not fall far behind due to the good graces of Verizon's On-Demand or, if need be, bitTorrent. Considering how much we're shelling out on DVD sets for seasons 1-4, I trust ABC won't begrudge us one or two pirates episodes.

They'd have to catch me first.

Locke remains my favorite character, although I don't like the shift in his character this season. I liked him better as a mysterious, quasi-mystic bad-ass. Hurley still rocks, of course. I loved the episode where he, Jin, Sawyer and Charlie find that xvg in the jungle and manage get it jkuifre so they can ewvbe the knujlp. A very feel-good sort of episode which I think this series needs a couple of each season. Hurley's good for that. I hope he gets a happy ending.

Am I still pissed at the writers? Not as much, although I can see why people said this was a weaker season story-wise. It's not that there's a lack of story, but there does seem to be an unclear direction happening here. I have high hopes that Season 4 re-establishes a focus (and I suspect it will) and that the writers strike doesn't hurt it too much.

Friends of ours who have watched them all merely gves us this one cryptic remark: "Everything Changes" which of course are the words you ktt on the sgheem in the room when they rescue Jkqw.

Huh. Maybe I better stop now. But before I do, let me state that I still have problems with the black smoke.

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Thank the Great Kazoo for my obsessive little lists. It's been a busy week, it ain't over, and it'll like be a busy next week as well. But every day I jot down on a little list everything I have to do that day and at by the end of it I look at said list and nod in satisfaction. It's good to get stuff accomplished.

This week I've been working on updates to the Lewis Stadlen book and the Hardcastle and McCormick book. The former looks pretty close to completion. The latter will take a bit more time. I also set up printer files for new press runs of The Baby Snooks Scripts, Vol. 1 by Philip Rapp and . On other fronts, I have the latest round of edits for The Trustus Plays from inTellect, edits for the February issue of Medicine & Health/Rhode Island, and the latest issue of the SFWA Bulletin

So yeah, a little busy. It's not that bad, though. Like I said, it's mostly works in various editing stages. I should have everything done by tomorrow afternoon so my weekend is free and clear.

Just in time to take down the Christmas stuff.

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Today's link is a recipe for Chocolate Truffle Cookies. Why? Because they look good, and it's a recipe I'm going to try out sometime soon. I recently made a batch of the same style of cookie using the chocolate truffle brownie mix from Trader Joe's, but after they cool they harden quite a bit and involves more work to eat than I'd care to see in a cookie. Looking over this recipe, I can substitute the butter with a soy margarine we use, and I can find dairy-free chocolate. I think I'll give it a try. If anyone else gives it a go, let me know how they came out for you.

Cheers!