In April, I wrote 18 entries in this journal. In May, I only wrote 11. June will be better (I promise, Mary!).

I spent most of Saturday not working on the June issue of The Martyr's Rede, as well as not mowing the grass. That pretty much took up the whole day.

Actually, I did come up with something else to do. The Three Musketeers is finally out on video! No, not that one; the good one! Back in the mid-1970s, there was a version of The Three Musketeers made with Michael York, Richard Chamberlain, Charlton Heston, Faye Dunaway, Racquel Welch, etc. A few weeks after it was released, the "sequel", The Four Musketeers, was released. Actually, it wasn't a sequel at all; it was simply the second half of the story! It was originally going to be all one movie, but they just had too much footage, so they decided to split it into two. The movie(s) follow the original novel rather closely, and as it happens, in the book there is a fairly natural break in the story right at that point, so breaking the movie up wasn't very difficult. (My information about the original novel comes from my brother, as I've never read it.) In any case, it's an excellent movie, and I had been looking for it for quite some time, but it wasn't available. The other day, when I was in Suncoast (the bane of my existence; whenever I go in there I wind up much poorer), while paying for some DVDs, I saw The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers on display there at the register! I quickly snatched them up and watched them over the weekend. If you like period pieces, this is great stuff!

Sunday afternoon I finally sat down to work on The Martyr's Rede. Swordcliff has a new officer position, Archery Marshal, so one of the first things I wanted to do was update the officer listing in the template file. However, for whatever reason, Microsoft Publisher insisted on crashing every time I attempted to add an image of the badge of the Archery Marshal to the officer list. After fighting with it for over an hour, I hit upon a brilliant idea -- concede the point and produce the issue without the graphic. After that, things went significantly more quickly.

Of course, I still ended up making my traditional post-midnight trip to Kinko's to drop off the issue for copying.

My Life by the Numbers

Saturday: 235 pounds. Bother.

Sunday: 236 pounds. Hey!

Today: 236.5 pounds. Ack!