Today's Spades score: We lost. We might well have won, but we missed a 10, again. We could have made it, I think, but my high heart got trumped. Partner lost count of which one was high, as well as how many spades were left. We probably would have won the game had we made that bid, but that's the case with most missed 10s.

The dream journal's going well. I remembered a surprising amount, and I plan to keep up with it. Who knows what depths of my psyche my dreams will probe in the nights to come?

On the job front, things aren't as nice as I thought they'd be. The answers I got have led to more questions, and the guy who could answer them wasn't available today. So it's more gear-spinning until Monday. I'd be fine with the wait if I could use the ADCPs to test the stuff I'm working on in the meantime, but of course, it's too hot and stinky to run them. At least I have an excuse for not getting anywhere, and I WOULD be getting somewhere if I could. It's turning into Logikos all over again, but I'm sure we'll have the problems resolved soon.

GTP chapter 17 will go up on my website and fanfiction.net as soon as I finish reinstalling Word. Apparently, the "graceful" reinstall of Windows killed the HTML converter. No big deal. It gave me time to come up with a title, which I forgot to include in the FFML draft. That's okay, though... I don't really like the title I came up with anyway. This chapter was really a bridge into the next chapter, which will probably be the coolest part of the entire story. My favorite part, by far, anyway.

So that's my week! Exciting it's not, right? Well, there's plenty of anime and video games to fill up my weekend. Maybe I'll finally beat that darn Meta Ridley in hard mode...

It's Friday! Time to break out the celebration pom-poms and buttermilk corndogs!