So. It's the New Year. Hoorah.

You know what that means to me this morning? That means it's five months until another long, holiday weekend. If I didn't have Escapade to look forward to in two months, I could get really depressed about that.

Generally, January is one of my least-favorite months. The excitement of the holiday season is behind us (I love any time of the year when everyone gives me presents), the days are still dark and short, and there's Weather. We're supposed to get some Weather tonight and tomorrow. Just a few inches worth. This year, I've decided to be just a little less whiny about it. I mean...it could be worse. I could be living with the fallout from a tsunami, right?

And, I have much to look forward to this month. The new laptop toy ("Ferd" for those interested) is a delight to play with. This weekend I'm going to pop out and get a wireless router so I can set up a wireless network and access my cable modem from the laptop. That will be fun.

Also, due to the sad events over at Trickster, something I still mourn because it was a reliably and friendly home for so long), I was forced to find a new home for my website at least temporarily. That motivated me to undertake the long-overdue project of reformatting all of my stories to eliminate a lot of that annoying code Microsoft Word sticks in when you use the html editing feature (Can't help it. Didn't know how to code html when I did a lot of that stuff and there weren't the free and easy editors you can find today). I'm about 75% of the way through that project now and deeply regretting how prolific I used to be.

(Appallingly enough, I found one story where the formatting was completely hashed and in trying to fix it, I actually found myself reading some of the text and wondering just exactly when the story disappeared and what's clearly a rough first draft wound up getting posted. I'm not generally a big fan of re-writing but I really think I'm going to have to work on that one. )

Haven't decided what to do about all of those obnoxious essays I wrote once-upon-a-time. I doubt I go to the bother of reformatting all of them. Strikes me as a tedious project. (Actually, all of this reformatting is tedious. It might be a lot simpler just to put Lynn's and Mallory's stories back up at the new locale and do mine...whenever the mood strikes me.)

Also, I have the new stories to look forward to. I have, as I believe I've mentioned repeatedly in recent weeks, outlines for a handful of stories lurking on my hard drive. Mostly Sentinel and Due South. And all much shorter than that blasted S.E.N. that the poor Mole is, even as we speak, struggling with.*

I'll have to re-watch some episodes for those shows, which will be tricky. Oh, we have the episodes, if not very good quality in the case of the Sentinel, but I went on a BtVS binge this weekend and my brain is all filling up with Spike again. I don't see the point since it's not a fandom I'd ever write in, but there you go. That's brains for you.

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* Well, not even as we speak, because today she officially became an Employed Person and she's at her new job. Hooray!