one of the downfalls of fics

Much as I loved hippediva's "Pirate Vindaloo" I've become bogged down in Chapter Seventeen, mostly because the damned 'cute kid' character has become really annoying to me.  A little bit of cute kid goes a real long way, and he's gotten far overused.  Besides which I can't figure out his age at all.  I thought he was like eleven at first, but he could be six, I really can't tell.  In conclusion: kids in fic - to be avoided. 

I might never get done, but

I've finally got as far as retroactively posting two installments on last weekend: Friday and Saturday of My Fortieth Birthday Weekend. 

That really about covers it...

My Birthday Weekend Sunday is up.  In summary: Leather cups!  Scotch eggs!  Cool! 

Hey, eor, cyberquail - I know the pics are floating around, somewhere?  I do want to show off the headgear I ended up with. ;) 

Today's been kind of boring - just getting things done that have been ignored for the last two weeks.  Groceries, recycling, etc.  Then a light repast of cheese, corn chips and Dr. Who! :)  One of the Christopher Ecclestons which daegaer sent us: "Boomtown."  Very character-centric - I liked it a lot.

Other than that the only thing to report is that my back hurts from sitting here writing up faux-old entries.  Must go do something else.  Hm.  Pseudo Victorian Boys, perhaps.  Or, no - I just found out today that I had mail in my yahoo account that I hadn't collected since we left for the weekend, and there's a chapter of a story waiting there for me to beta-read.  I should really get to that.