So that’s what a productive week feels like!

Or is it just that after the relatively light holiday schedule, I’m refreshed and energized? Either way it was a good work week.

Monday I got back to work on Savage Adventures. It didn’t go as fast as I wanted but it did go. And yes, I was right to think I needed to at least skim every book and check names of characters. Miswriting Buttons Zortell in The Red Skull as Buttons Zorelli is a small mistake but in a nonfiction book, it’s still an inaccuracy.

Tuesday I watched movies for Jekyll and Hyde: the 1968 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll vs. the Werewolf, the Dick Van Dyke film The Comic and The Purge (I’ll explain those last two later).

Wednesday I got in two articles for The Local Reporter, one on a new development project, one on Carrboro’s new sustainability officer. Over at Atomic Junk Shop, I reposted an article from this site on Lester Dent’s early 1930s crimefighters, and on one of DC’s late-1960s humor strips.

Thursday I worked on the writing side of Jekyll and Hyde. Not stellar output, but like Savage Adventures, progress.

Oh, and Tuesday night I read part of Jekyll and Hyde and part of Savage Adventures to the writing group. I got positive reactions to both, which is good to hear

It’s been freezing cold so once again TYG has been taking Wisp to sleep in the master bedroom. I sleep in the spare bedroom, get up alone and let Snowdrop in. He seems to handle the cold okay — some chilly mornings he’s out there by the crawlspace door, just sitting — but he loves coming in and going to sleep in my lap. A shame he’s not willing to do it if I close the door because sooner or later I have to (like I said, freezing cold). Then he insists on going out. Still he’s using the shelter on the deck with the heated cat shelter at least part of the time. That’s good.

He loves his belly rubs too.

Plushie, as I’ve mentioned, has been much livelier since we trimmed off his mats. This has its downside: he’s way more energy for fussing and barking and typically starts whining for dinner/walk around four PM. I’d been planning to use that time for tidying stuff up, writing letters to politicians and such. I may have to rethink that part of my schedule. Though I did get a couple of letters off this week.

Wednesday I intended to drop in on a book club I managed to attend once last year. Their switching to Wednesday is much easier — no conflict with writer’s group or with Con-Tinual — but instead of entering Boxyard (an outdoor mall where they meet) I typed Boxcar into Google Maps and wound up driving through downtown Durham to a bar/arcade. Nice to know I can still navigate downtown Durham in the dark — it’s a tricky place to drive — but I missed the meeting. Next month!

Hope your social events this weekend go a little better than that one.

Doc Savage cover by James Bama, Ollie strip by Henry Boltinoff. All rights to images remain with current holders.