Doing Write

Though the day started off with Kitten getting up too early, and with a phone call that my Spycraft game on Sunday had to be postponed because of Justin's football season-ender dinner thang (Go, Moose!), there were plenty of little successes in it. Two in particular:

1. I think this is the quickest I have returned the garage into two-car-edness after a visit from Jim and Ginger. The remains of the project have sat there for multiple months at a time (usually, but not always, because there's more project for me to do).

What made this time faster than previous was that (a) I didn't want my new car sitting out on the driveway, and (b) Margie seriously didn't want to be getting in and out of the van on the driveway.

2. When hit up by Katherine for a story for our trip to Home Depot, I hit upon the perfect story: "The Story of Shishiko, the Little Cat Girl, and How She Met Prince Menho." This is the "origin tale" of my Oriental Adventures character, and it was just perfect, as was the sequel, "The Story of Shishiko and the Mean Guard." I'm actually thinking of writing them up as real bed-time books for her, maybe even with illustrations.

Hey, didn't Tolkien get started that way?