Last week, my kitty Bandit was eating less and sleeping maybe a little more.

This is an election year. It is also a leap year. Tomorrow, the annual American football championship game will be played, and the teams competing in this year's Super Bowl are the New England Patriots and the New York Giants. Four years ago it was also a leap year, and an election year, and the Giants faced the Patriots in the Super Bowl.

It seems I'm not going to finish in time for Short Story Month. I have only about 80% of a story done, and still no idea for an ending.

Oh well.

I think I'll steer clear of story challenges for a while and concentrate on Stephanie. (Episode 24 is about halfway completed at the moment, and both of my readers deserve a better update schedule.)

As promised, since it won a prize in the contest, I added an epilogue to Santa Monica.

Scroll down to the Kilroy-looking separator, where it says:

~o~O~o~
Epilogue:

There's an article posted today at the io9 blog that might interest those of you playing around with superhero genders:
The 10 strangest sex-swapped versions of superheroes.

Because of my own stupidity and laziness, I'm chilling at home today instead of going to work.

Tampax has a fictional blog / video series about a 16-year-old boy who suddenly has "girl parts down there."

Find it here.

Today marks my 4th anniversary of being a member here.

I've got a question for anyone that's been following my serial, Stephanie's Deal.

Lately there have been ads in the left column from "PWG" that are trying to sell wine accessories. So far they've all featured some kind of scanitly clad bombshell holding a glass of wine.

Is it just me, or does anyone else's brain automatically give the image a TG caption? I usually imagine something like "Does my body fascinate you? Drink the elixir and you can look like this, too."

Just like half of my blog entries so far, this is yet another apology for taking too long on my serials.

What's the proper format for a drabble?

My installments will be late this week, and probably next week as well. I knew that having guests over for Easter would be throwing my schedule off, but I hadn't taken a serious look around the house to see how much cleaning I needed to do before I'd be comfortable with company.

So if you don't see me around here in the next week or so, nothing serious has happened.

I have a question for my readers (all four of them).

My installments in both Oscar Night and Stephanie's Deal were late this week. I have no buffer left on either story and I'm not sure if I can get back on schedule next week. So if I have to drop one of them to less than weekly (like every ten days instead of every seven), which one would you rather not have to wait as long for?

I was googling myself and discovered that there is a porn star (or at least a model who frequently poses nude) named "Jennifer Brock." She seems to have been a Playmate. I'd like to assure both of my readers that I am not she, although I wish I had her figure.