Well it was a rare day here in Mammyland. I didn't get as much done this weekend as I had hoped, but I did get a chance to have a good sit down face-to-face with one Mr. Ray Mileur (look for his second interview coming sometime after the New Year...) which was quite cool.

It was one of those rare instances where something comes together quite nicely. I'd found Ray's site, the Birdhouse while looking for information on the Cardinals and after an interview and few letters, they asked me if I wanted to write for them (or they didn't run away screaming when I volunteered. I don't remember exactly which it was...) and so starting in June I began plopping down little Mammygrams with regularity.

Well, lo and behold it turns out Ray has family in my corner of the tundra and, as things would go, he came to visit them over the weekend. So this afternoon and evening we got a chance to "meet" for the first time and talk about a whole range of stuff. Twas fun and nice. About time this season actually acted as such, IMO.

And holy crap, we landed Mark Mulder. How did I miss that?

No chance to work on tuneage so far and I'm not holding out much hope. Jan 1 is teetering, but we'll play it by ear. Got an intro to the novel done last night. Now all I have to do is write the rest...

-Joe