flaggerx took me out to lunch on Saturday at an Indian place near Polaris -- the buffet was good, but they didn't have any saag paneer this time which was disappointing. I bounced a couple of ideas about book 2 off him, and he had what I thought were some pretty good insights about the economic aspects of the dystopia I'm building. I'm making a lot of notes on one thing or another and I'm going to have to read up a bit on early 1800s U.S. and British history.

I had a tech article due early this morning, and so Sunday I did my usual thing of putting it off until late evening, then drinking a bunch of coffee and staying up late working on it. I got it turned in on time, and I got enough sleep to function today, so all's well.

I had a job years ago as an early-morning news editor at a radio station, and I developed a whole set of writing/editing skills I can't seem to fully engage unless I'm half-asleep.

Brains are weird.