So… how many books will have been pre-ordered by the time I close pre-orders late Friday?

Hint: As of April 30th we’d recieved 1552 pre-orders.

Go ahead and guess. No fee to play, no prize to win.

I’ll go ahead and open with “2001”, because I’m a wishful thinker. Treat that as the extreme upper limit. You are allowed to be more optimistic than me, but we’ll just both end up being wrong together.

–Howard

I read the following paragraph from this CNN article:

An executive at a heart disease charitable foundation who embezzled close to a quarter of a million dollars over two years to pay a dominatrix to beat him was sentenced Tuesday to two to six years in prison.

The first thoughts through my head were “You people are giving him exactly what he wants!”

*sigh*

When the masochist says “hurt me,” the sadist is supposed to say “mmmm…. NO.”

Good things from yesterday… things that brought me joy:

1) The massage I got at the Therapeutic Massage Center in downtown Provo. It’s on the same block as Dragon’s Keep, and my massage therapist is a regular there. She totally fixed my neck.

2) Addams Family Values. Sandra and I own this one on VHS, and watched it while she filled out customs forms. I laughed out loud. I can’t think of a performance in that film that isn’t spot-on brilliant. The only part I don’t like is the stupid rap music they played in the closing credits.

3) Getting some work done. Not tons — I scripted a week and pencilled 6 days, which is good, but I could have done better. Still, 15 rows of work is better than my average.

4) Laughing until I cried while at the Keep. Shaggy and I were filmed last Tuesday for “Spotlight Provo,” which is one of those municipal cable-access shows. Most of it was beyond lame, but the segment on Dragon’s Keep was pretty good. Mostly I was laughing at Shaggy, though. Oh, BOY did they pick a winner of a soundbite.

(I’m trying to get permission to rip and post that particular segment… we’ll see what happens.)