what the day's email has brought my way

Good News: Someone wants to publish my novel!

Bad News: no, I haven't heard back from You Know Where -- I just got my first direct scam publisher solicitation! Somehow it buoys my spirits, if in no other way than by demonstrating that I'm not yet despondent enough about my novel's prospects to find it at all tempting.

one last 2008 "screw you"

My furnace isn't turning on. It's getting a mite bit chilly in here.

ETA: It seems to now be fixed. I felt really rotten about having to call the service guy out here in NYE, and it didn't help that he described in detail to me the lobster dinner he'd just sat down to when his pager went off... )-: