Hey, Ali, thanks for your comment! I do hope to go on with the Blockhead Blog--it seems to be working tonight at least. The alternatives are not that great, and I would miss everybody I've met out here in the Bravelands.

Well, let's see... news since I last posted... RID on Amazon, etc--but I still have to get the cover pic and info over to them. Hope that's not too bug-filled. Anyway, that stuff happened on Tuesday. Before that, the big news--and something that will actually affect my daily life a lot more than the Amazon thing (unfortunately!) is that Roo has abruptly decided not to nap. Nope, ain't gonna do it, nohow, no more, Mama. This as you might be able to tell, makes me a bit loopy. The other thing is, I've started to get kind of interested in working with clay, something I haven't done since I was a kid. And, yes... it started with me playing with Roo's Play-doh. Then I found out about these newfangled polymer clays that you can bake in the oven... but what I ended up buying was an "air-dry" clay that just dries hard without firing. I hope to work with this stuff for awhile and maybe take a class next year. We'll see how it goes... but so far I find it much more relaxing than painting.

And finally, with the advent of the new Napless Roo, I think I am going to have to wimp out on Juvenile Hall reading. I feel sorta guilty, but oh well. Mom gave me a good talking to about that. ("You young people today expect too much of yourselves!") Anyway, we're going to finish A Study in Scarlet over the next couple weeks and then I will say goodbye. It's just too hard to drag myself out of the house in the evenings! I hope they find someone to take my place soon... they should get lots of publicity when the new Hall opens, so that should help. Anyway, that's what I'm telling myself.

OK, enough for tonight!