Drive By Monday

This is kind of a drive-by post as it's Monday and I have to go the salt mine where the phones will ring off the hook (Monday is the busiest day in a call center).

I got out of bed at 5:30 which is an improvement over my usual 6 or 6:30. I walked Darcy in the muggy dark with sprinklers all around and a resident stray cat slinking around. Amazingly Darcy did not bark at the cat. Of course I was moving her away from the cat and going 'leave it' all the while. Now if I can get her to look at a cat and not want to lunge at it or play with it that will be an accomplishment. At class on Saturday the trainer told me that when a dog approaches another dog (or cat or human) that they have one of two thoughts: 1) I want to meet you, and or 2) I want to eat you. The second seems to be Darcy's default sometimes and learning when she's thinking that is the next step in my training with her.

Yesterday at work I brought my big red zip binder and Alphasmart to work though I didn't work on any writing. I have some good notes in the binder but the tentative schedule I made for the writing went out the window last night. And now I realize why: I would love to work on my novel more but I think during the work week I'll work on the non-fiction projects with my days off reserved for said novel. It seems like my brain is okay with shorter times for non-fiction but not fiction.

I bought a new book for my Kindle this morning: The Long Way Home by Jessica Scott. It's the sequel to one my first Kindle purchases To Iraq and Back by Jessica Scott . To Iraq and Back is a collection of writing from the blog she kept while she was deployed to Iraq for a year. Ms. Scott is an Army officer, wife, and mother, and I read the blog when she was over there but it's great to read it all in one sitting. I've been looking forward to the sequel as coming home is nowhere near as easy as most people think. Also, her fiction books are most excellent also (she's an auto-buy for me now).

Well, back to the grind.