Random ramblings

The kids spent two hours outside yesterday afternoon.  Which meant that I spent two hours outside yesterday afternoon, and got absolutely nothing done except washing the dog's bedding--and discovering that the washer has sprung a leak.  And it's not in the hoses.  I checked.

I also found out yesterday that the neighbor doesn't like the dog.  Complains about her barking incessantly--which she doesn't, just when kids use our driveway as a pass through between the alley and our street.  And considering that her bedroom is at the street end of her house on the other side from our yard...yeah.  I'm thinking she's just miserable because her husband passed a few months ago, and is trying to spread it around. 

I hate to say it, but it's not gonna work.  The dog is the kids' dog, and she's not going anywhere.  And I don't care enough about the neighbor to have had more than a "Huh.  Sucks to be you," moment.

The imp has a knitted cord I made a year or so ago as a cat toy, cat fishing.  I'm not sure who's enjoying it more, him or the cats. 

I still have a metric shit ton of grading.  And I've got half a dozen questions about the presentation that I don't know how to answer other than "do your best to figure it out on your own because I don't know, and I don't give half a tinker's damn."

Still working on Pendragon.  I've got about twenty pages left to edit and add more material to.  I can't say how much longer it's going to be, except for being certain that it won't be published this month. 

Hey, at least that gives me a bit longer to find some good cover art.  Because I don't think my friend who did Survivors and The Godshead can do something that will work for that world.