Now I remember why I love writing: the sheer euphoria after hours of grinding your fingers down to bone and the keyboard down to dust, the lovely comments when you've done something right, and the helpful CC when you haven't!

... plus it doesn't hurt that I put good music on when I write!

I have been writing for the April Fools writing competition (pick your own goal - it's fantastic - means you can up your goal if you start to look like reaching it) since 12:01 exactly. I wrote for two hours and thirty-one minutes, and I have two thousand, one hundred and sixty-six words.

Yes, those figures are exact. No, I don't have a life, why do you ask?

Better yet, the music I was listening to (Velcra's new album, Hadal) arrived today - two days' shipping! Priority, of course, but I got them from Finland - and I'm lucky if parcels from my own country take two days to deliver, never mind the other side of the world! Plus, they were really cheap to buy - one CD in Australia costs about $30, two is roughly $60 - Hadal and Consequences of Disobedience, along with shipping, cost me only $37!

So all in all - fantastic day. It can only be improved with some Pepsi Max and further watching of Babylon 5 Series 2 (also newly arrived) and Farscape Season 3 (Crais is not dead, I swear!).

... at some distant date in the future, an archaeologist of some technological variety is going to dig this blog up and wonder how the heck anyone could survive thinking like this...