...but I've started writing again. This time I'll finish it before posting bits of it. It's game-stuff, and may be approaching fanfic.

In slightly related news, I've splurged a bit. Through an internet bookstore I've bought:

Doctor Who Adventures in Time and Space: The Roleplaying Game (11th Doctor Version)
Doctor Who: Starships and Spacestations
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Monster Guide

A nerd is me. A happy nerd.

Today I kept two friends company while they were waiting to to go to a funeral. Bought them hot drinks at a café while the snow was blowing outside. Between them they've lost three relatives in the space of four months. They could do with some GOOD fortune now. They did most of the talking. I just listened.

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My withdrawal symptoms are mainly psychological. I'll distractedly reach for a cigarette that isn't there. Then I'll have to convince the "but I wannit!"-part of my brain that, no, there hasn't been some kind of mistake.

Luckily, the books that I ordered on the 30th have arrived. Blisss...

A cold beer, birdsong and the hum of an old laptop. Things are good.

My local supermarket has 'American week'. this means (among other things) decadent yogurt with flavors like toffee/popcorn, cranberry/chocolate, and chocolate muffin. I bet you Americans eat that kind of stuff all the time. Heh.

I bought some.

I also ordered a lot of books (a fool and his money etc.) from an online bookshop. To wit:

The Pocket Muse (a book of advice and prompts for fiction writers).

On Writing Horror - A Handbook by the Horror Writers Association(I've never owned a book about fiction-writing. This seems like the way to go, even if I don't write horror. I LIKE horror).

Teatro Grottesco by Thomas Ligotti (I've read it, but never really owned it).

Bumper Crop by Joe R. Lansdale (A collection of short stories by an amazing storyteller. Horror, suspense and so on).

The Metamorphosis & Other Stories by Franz Kafka (I've read a good deal of Kafka. Nowhere near enough though).

Rpg.net appears to be down. Waah! What should I do? I know, marvel at my newly arrived American Fantastic Tales box set.
I'm not usually very sentimental about books. If I can read them that's usually enough. Still, I can't quite get over how lovely these two volumes are. The type is aesthetically pleasing. The books have heft without being heavy. The pages are thin without being fragile, and they even smell nice. New-book-vana!

I've just ordered American Fantastic Tales edited by Peter Straub. Two huge doorstop book with short stories from Hawthorne to Lovecraft,  Tennessee Williams to Kelly Link.
I had a gift certificate, but I still had to shell out a chunk of change. 'Course it's worth it.

I'll post my opinion of the stories as I plow through them.

I got my Post-it Monstre book. Very cool.

Hm, I haven't done anything lately (apart from putting out lacklustre job applications), and I feel strangely ashamed.

I haven't made any headway on the fantasy setting generator yet, partly because it's a much bigger mouthful than post-apocalyptic settings. I'll just have to resign myself to the fact that I can't fit EVERYTHING fantasy into a handy set of tables.

I've managed to do a bit of reading, specifically Patrick Humphries' Tom Waits biography. I love Waits, and you have to in order to get into this book. Humphries writes well (in that music journo way) but has a tendency to repeat himself. After the third time it's mentioned, you sorta get that young Waits wasn't into the hippie music of the 60s.  It gets a little tiresome, even for a devout fan like yours humbly.

If you only read one more Stephen King story, make it Harvey's Dream.