Tom is Away

75 year old woman sues the Phillie Phanatic, claims he/it inflicted arthritis upon her: Link

new recurring feature I’m going to forget in a week: thematically appropriate song for tomorrow’s ipod alarm– “Laws Must Change” by Eric Burdon & Jimmy Witherspoon

trying to figure out where I can buy South Jersey magazine, since I’m supposedly in the issue that will come out tomorrow.

draft unfinished. deadline not met (again). hopefully tonight or tomorrow, although I have to go to court tomorrow, which is a separate but equally infuriating situation.

sold 3 signed copies of the book today. Can’t seem to find the envelope where I’d been keeping the cash from book sales– maybe I spent it already?

either I’ve lost 75 pounds since being measured for my tux (for Tim’s wedding) or the guy who measured me was too distracted by his burgeoning crime syndicate to do an accurate job, because I’ve never needed size 40 pants in my life, not even when I was fat.

~100 more pages to revise before draft is finished. Cutting dramatically; it’s easier to get to the end when you keep moving the finish line closer.

meeting a BMIMJ fan at a coffee shop tomorrow to sign some books. The iced latte is absolutely counting as a business expense.

wasp flies into my office while I’m writing intently; totally breaks concentration and causes a 10 minute chase.

If that damn thing had stung me in the back of the neck while I was typing, you would have heard the profanity from your home.

I love Darren Daulton from his work on the ‘93 Phils, but, man, I have no interest in looking at his beef jerky skin ever again. Plus, you know, he’s a documented crazy person. The weird subtext to all of his analysis is that he truly believes the world is going to end in 2 years– so why bother asking him, for example, if Moyer’s going to make it to the Hall of Fame?

The Simpsons is not on TV at 7 PM anymore. Instead, Fox is offering me the opportunity to watch Craig Kilborn interview Jeff Foxworthy. This is the saddest news I’ve ever heard.

back to work after lunchtime, which is kinda weird.

new strategy– wake up at 2 AM and finish working by 9, then sleep in the air conditioned bedroom once it’s really hot.

working before it gets too hot upstairs (too late already?)

I can finally understand the appeal of writing in an air conditioned coffee shop, by the way.

catching up on Argentina-Mexico. Two observations:

1. It’s amazing how terrible the FIFA refs are.
2. It’s also amazing that they don’t run into more problems (like the one at halftime) by having both teams walk down the same tunnel at halftime and post-game.

dogs going crazy– too hot to walk them, or they might die. Enduring the frenzy.

Thinking I’ll have another draft of this book done by the end of the work, provided that I put in about 30-35 hours.

watching Germany-England.

It’s one thing for Eagles fans to hate Cowboys fans, for example, but it’s hard to match a rivalry that’s founded on two World Wars.

today was one of those days that felt like it was two days

up a bit early to get work done before the soccer action starts.