Did I say "tomorrow"? The story below will continue another day - just not today. Time and energy is in short supply. No, actually, I've wasted my entire evening doing nuffin'. Eating pizza and watching TV. I'm not saying what I've been watching. Too embarrassing. Leave me alone. I'm all jet-laggy.

Busy days, what with having been AWOL for two weeks, stuff's been piling and I'm playing catch-up. Without a glove. Tons of mail to answer, but wading through my inbox trying to sort legitimate mail from junk took hours. Yes, I'm using a spam filter. Yes, I still receive thousands of "enlargement" offers. Every. Single. Day. Ranting about spam is quite pointless and uninteresting - like complaining about the weather or public transportation - but if someone doesn't do something about this soon, I'll go postal. Or stop reading my e-mail. One of the above.

I finally got hold of a novel I've been looking forward to reading for some time; Michael Chabon's "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay". Bought it at a Borders in San Francisco. I'm still reading William Gibson's excellent "Pattern Recognition", but "Kavalier & Clay" is definitely on top of my pile of Stuff to Read...together with about eight million other books.  ¶ 22:41