So the guy says to me...

It's been almost a week since I made a proper entry.

Well, it was quite the boring week, outside of finally finishing "The Wedding." And then I realized...

This week, I finished doing something for the second time this month, that I hadn't managed to do in it's entirety in more than two years. I read a book. Not a kids book... that's cheating, and there was a point where I was reading those every night. No, I mean actual, multi-hundred page novels. I read all of the book Halo: The Flood, which, while not nearly as good as anything Ringo or Turtledove cranked out, was pretty damn awesome. Second, I read, for the first time, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." You know, I read that and I thought, "why the hell didn't I read this before?" J.K.'s got style. And it was great. And now, on the last day of the month, I'm more than halfway through "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets." If time remains on my side in the coming weeks (so not gonna happen) I'll get the rest of the way through the series, and maybe even start for real on the Chronicles of Narnia. Looking forward to it.

"The Wedding" is pretty, and I encourage y'all to go read it. I even fixed the couple of bugs that were pointed out by a kind-hearted reviewer. Next three chapters (WACFSpII, Sins of the Mother, and Sins of the Father) are in the works, between planning stages and some actual writing taking place. Look forward to getting this stuff down for all to read.

The Fantasy RPG at EFN2 is active again, as well. Sure, there's two others that are pretty active (the Buffy one is getting damn cool, and the high school one... just keeps getting stranger), but the Fantasy is where I'm writing. We're up to four authors again (Chris, wherefore hast thou foresaken us?) and has taken one or two unexpected turns. The most fun I think there is to be had within, lies in a thief wanted the world over, riding into a capital city with its former king... looking to raid a bit. Nobles, they're such fun. And, our very own glimfeather has joined in the Fantasy RPG (an RPG virgin, at that), and moving along nicely. He's in for at least one more good shock (he's had a couple recently)...

Last night, my family, and a friend's family went to the Drive-In theater. Man, I haven't done that in 19 years. The last movie I saw at a Drive-In was "Superman III." Yeah... Long damn time. So, we saw "Stealth," which I could have taken or left as far as even bothering to see when I first heard about it. It ended up being really enjoyable. And the second feature was "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." Damn, what a cool movie. Go and see that movie if you haven't. Johnny Depp stepped away from being "isn't he that jerkoff kid from 21 Jump Street?" years ago, but it took seeing a few movies I really like him in (Pirates of the Caribbean and Don Juan DeMarco were others) for him to really cement himself as a solid actor in my eyes. Good good stuff. Drive-In was $16 for the six of us to get in (5 and under are free, $2 for children, $6 for adults)... can't touch a movie even with just Mandy and I for under $20... yeah, I had to drive an hour each direction, but dammit, it was worth it. Plus, the side trip to the Penny Candy store... God love that place. They have this candy bar there called the Violet Crumble... It's like a chocolate covered honeycomb. It's pretty damn good. Check that thing out, if you ever see one.