… because life’s too short to write a long winded explanation of the little joys of today.

a) I broke the ten-thousand word-mark last night. (I guess I’d better buy some glue on the way home.)

b) Amazon delivered. I bought that new “Planet Simpson” book that came out, and it arrived in the mail at my office this morning. Woo-hoo!

c) It is friday after all.

d) Karin and I are going to another play tonight. Some might say it’s sappy to lament on things romantic, but I finally managed to get a second date with my wife.

e) Next week is a short short short week. Three days. Perhaps. Yet to be confirmed, but probably three days.

f) I had spicy chili for lunch. It was tay-stee-yes-sir-ee!

g) Blue is watching me work. And he’s figured out that the big shape moving around outside his bowl is the one who brings food. I’d feed him, but he’s getting fat.

h) If I had some money I’d buy a guitar. Or maybe a pickle. No, definitely a guitar. It’s just a fun thing to think about.

i) I only have one more art class left. Well, two, if you count the one I miss while I’m on vacation. Neither of those are joys in particular, but I’m actually improving, I think.

j) I got a poppy-quarter from Tim Hortons this morning. And, not for the first time, they upgraded me by accident. Nice, but waaaay too much coffee.

k) Back to the books, as its November I’ve started the Second Annual New Years Booklist Flush, wherein I actually FINISH all those books I’ve started over the past year. Time to build a pile.

l) Very little blogspam lately. That’s been nice.

m) I’ve worked through setting up a new auction system for our Annual Staff Holiday Online National Auction this year. It’s 97 percent ready to roll next week.

n) Only 50ish days ’til Christmas.

o) The house, while little has been done, really, seems like something should be happening with the final little details soon. Maybe this weekend. Maybe we’ll have a hole by the end of the month.

p) I found out that they (the mysterious, non-specific “they”, in case you were wondering) are releasing the box-set of The Matrix Trilogy on DVD soon.

q) I think I’m living next door to an Eskimo. Yes, a real, live Eskimo. There has been a little detective work attributed to that.

r) I’m running out of things to write in this entry. That’s not MY joy. It should be yours.

s) With this morning’s book delivery also arrived the new BNL Holiday CD. Nice. For Karin, really, but whatever. Still nice.

t) I’ve managed to moderately sedate my mind from the impact of Tuesday.

u) This is the second entry in a row comprised almost entirely of a list. You’d almost think I was in the middle of writing a novel or something and didn’t feel like forming complete paragraph-style thoughts any more than I needed to.

v) Sharyl might be visiting this weekend. At the very least she’s staying in the city for the duration. And she hasn’t figured out it was me yet, leaving strange and cryptic messages on her webpage.

w) Just because the phone has barely rung today.

x) Deadlines have been re-arranged. That’s always nice. For the moment. Temporarily. Okay, maybe not, but I’m not deleting this one.

y) Why not?

z) Michael Moore sent me a personal email. Well, okay maybe it was a form letter to everyone on his junk-mail list. But whatever… he still cares.