A New Post, In Which Cholera Gets the Better of Me

OK, not really.  I appear to have contracted a virus that makes me want to nap and eat chocolate all the time, but I haven't been able to find it in any medical dictionaries.  However, cholera has nearly given me a very bad day, simply by not being something you can be inoculated against.

It's one of those things I thought I'd check up on in the ms, that slipped past the betas, that flew under the radar for the agent, and that I obviously wasn't bright enough to catch in the first place (not cholera, but the research slip - up).  The plot wants cholera to have a vaccination, but it doesn't necessarily have to be that way.  Some minor revisions tidy up the issue.

Really kinda glad that I thought I'd check on that just in case.  Would've been quite embarrassing to have an editor come back with - "Yeah, your author?  Clearly an idiot - MASSIVE FAIL!"

Reality, Get a Grip on Me!

As I wandered yesterday in a writing daze I managed to lose my car.  Yeah, really.  And I don't mean like in a big parking lot or anything.  I went to the bank, to do bank - like things, PARKED the car there, then WALKED over to the post office to do PO-like things, then walked out of the PO and into their parking lot, and stood there dumbstruck while I tried to figure out where my car was.

I was two seconds from reporting my car stolen when I happened to see it sitting in the bank's parking lot, right next door.  I imagine it was thinking, "Owner!  Owner!  Here I am!  If only I could draw attention to myself somehow - nevermind that fact that I'm hulking piece of machinery directly in your line of sight!"

Sigh... so what's your story?  Do you ever indulge in acts of idiocy while an awesome scene is playing out in your head?

An Irish Factoid: The Wearing O' The... Orange

Just a little blurby today on something I learned not so long ago.  Technically, becuase my Irish roots have a Protestant base, I should wear orange on St. Patty's day, instead of green.  Protestants generally supported William of Orange, hence the assocation.  However, I usually don't get the chance to explain that before getting pinched, so I wear the green.  Plus, good luck finding an orange St. Patty's Day shirt in Ohio.  A random fun Irish history / genealogy page for to poke around today, if you're Irish, or even if you're just feeling Irish today:

http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~julieann/st__patrick's_day.htm