Busy morning

Gawd, is everybody else's LJ running like a three-legged tortoise this morning, or is it just mine?

Anyway, unlike LJ, I have had a busy and productive morning. I have done much financial stuff, invoices and tax forms and the like, all in the post and away. I have been to the dentist (with a broken filling, apparently, that I knew not of, as well as a chipped tooth that I'm intimately familiar with. If I could go back and change one thing, I'd take better care of my teeth. Well, no: if I could only change one thing, it wouldn't be my dental regimen; but if I could have that happen on the side, it would be very welcome). And I have reached the point in the novella where we stop fiddling about and dive in with both hands; I have, in another metaphor, cut out the heart of the story prior to transplant. This heart was leaky, and failed at pumping.

Now I'm sitting here watching Barry wash behind his ears, for he is a scrupulous boy; and I am trying to post to LJ, despite its best efforts; and any moment now I am going to declare an end to the morning, and a hiatus to work.

Parthenogenesis - not restricted to messiahs!

"It now appears that at least some female sharks can switch from a sexual to a non-sexual mode of reproduction in the absence of males."

How much my blog is worth

(ganked from james_nicoll, who finds all the best stuff) -

My blog is worth $22,017.06.
How much is your blog worth?

...but I'd take a straight 20K...