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      So basically I came home from work, thought I'd take a quick nap -- no more than 30 minutes -- before starting my plans for my night, and instead, I slept until now. Got up to eat a snack, get ready for bed, blog and then back to bed. Yeah, I'm a fireball of energy.
      I've mentioned before that I dislike cold weather, but it's worth mentioning again. We had snow early this morning! Snow! It didn't stick because it's too warm, but there's definite something creepy about snow in April. Or there is here in southern Oklahoma. Perhaps where you live, snow is April and even May is a normal thing. To which, I can only ask, why are you still living there?! Move!
      What else? Crystal -- who has a cruel streak -- asked me today how Darkness, Oklahoma was going. I confess that I haven't written on it for a week. I ran into a problem with my vampire. I couldn't figure out why he didn't cut and run when the battle begins. I had set him up as a creature who loved his own life beyond all other things. Why else would he bargain his soul to darkness for eternal life? So why would he stay in a conflict that could cost him his precious life? Finally I worked it out, but it took a while. So I hope to start putting those words down on paper in a major way over the next few days.
      My back continues to give me problems. As do my legs, particularly my right ankle, which has never been right since I fell a couple of months ago. I'm particularly tired of being feeble and hope that this summer will show a marked improvement.
      I restarted Weight Watchers today. Didn't do that well, but it always takes a couple of days to get back into the groove. I've got to lose this weight before I get too much older or it may keep me from getting too much older. I'm obese, and it's time I faced that rather than excusing myself as having "big bones" or using that phrase "pleasantly plump." Look, I passed "pleasantly plump" a long time ago. I'm at "hysterically huge." Lord only knows what's past that. Probably a piano box as a coffin.
      Frenzied Feline and I had this thing going about blogging every day, but she hasn't for the past two days. She won't get into heaven with that kind of attitude. I suggest you go by her blog and say, "Hey, FF, don't you want to walk those streets of gold?" Perhaps that will cause her to reflect and change her slothful ways.
      I think we will have another excerpt from Murder by Dewey Decimal tomorrow. Things are heating up in the story, and our murderer soon has another target. There's something deadly about that library. Have any idea what? I've been thinking about self-publishing Murder by Dewey Decimal. I won't be able to excerpt the entire book here -- it would take a good year to do so. By self-publishing, the people who would like to see how it ends wouldn't have to wait a year to do so. I'm pobably going to use Lulu.com or Cafepress.com. Both services are free, and both seem to produce a decent paperback. I want to hang on to the copyright in case some publisher ever wants a look at it -- although I don't know who else to send it to. We'll see how it goes.
      You still have two days enter the April 2007 Giveaway. It's open to everyone. The spoils this month consist of a script for "The Vigil," the play that I've droned about these past two months and two plays co-authored by me: "Hogwild" and "There's A Body In The Closet." Both of my one-act plays were published by Dramatic Publishing and are now out-of-print. To enter, just answer one of the questions in the comments for the April 3rd post. (The answers are found in the posts featuring Murder by Dewey Decimal excerpts.) The catch: you can only answer one question and you can't answer the same one as any other commenter. You can only enter once. I'll put all the qualifying entries in a hat and draw a name. The winner will email me his/her name and address, and just a few short days later, he/she will receive his/her prize by regular mail. I'll be drawing the winner this Wednesday evening, April 11. We currently have nine entries so you have a good chance to win.
      Congrats go out to my friend TL who was baptized into the Catholic church Saturday night. Someday we'll have to get him to write a guest post telling of his journey from Baptist to Catholic. I don't know the whole story myself, but it promises to be interesting. I'll ask him to do that, but probably after his wedding in June to the lovely and talented Miss M.
      Well, it's past 11:30 here so I think I will head to bed -- again. Hope you have a wonderful day tomorrow. Have a good night.