I usually reserve checking my mail until Sunday afternoon; lo and behold, what should I discover?

Squee! It's Nikka Costa's un-US released 1996 album Butterfly Rocket. Twin knew I've been on the lookout for it now for almost four years and he found it somewhere in upstate NY. I'm loving it; straight to Euterpe for this one so I can jam with it on the way to work.

Speaking of work, I'm off tomorrow. Confederate Memorial Day. I would be one of those Black folks who'd be all "I'm going to protest by going to work" but…naah. I'll pick my battles, thankyouverymuch. Besides, this is the perfect time to do a little spring cleaning. I spent the latter part of today cooking, organizing, bagging up old clothes for the Salvation Army and writing. I decided to reprise two old writing gigs of mine to try and keep my prose sharp and on point (and mostly to motivate finishing my novel). Lately, the short stories I've been churning out haven't been my best work by any means. I think I peaked with "Writing with Numbers" back in '03. Which reminds me…I'll have to post that on here one day.

Saturday was spent battling my allergies at the Inman Park Festival. EJ and I went and I caught up with one of my old co-workers from Hell and one of my current co-workers. The festival was nice, though. I got some pretty good pictures. Afterwards we had lunch at this shitty little Va-Hi joint called American Roadhouse. We were hungry, so I think we both barely tasted that slop they passed off as mid-priced cuisine. My Reuben was little more than a dry turkey sandwich with coleslaw on it and EJ's tuna melt was really just albacore with a slice of cheese. I was famished, so I had wolfed it down so fast I couldn't even remember how it tasted. Thank God they served Vanilla Coke, the best part of the meal.

I heard there were some Black/Brown blogger meetups this weekend. One impromptu, the other organized. Looks like it was fun.

<checks phone for signal>

Yep…it's still on.

In other news, my review of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is coming up on Wednesday. Anyone wanna come with me?