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Didn’t go into work until after lunch.  It’s like my muse doesn’t believe me anymore when I tell her that we’ll get to rest, or have fun.  She’s started insisting that I pay up front, rather than after.  Sort of a cash only business, none of this credit shit.  I guess I can’t blame my muse.  I have been telling her we’ll get a break for awhile and it doesn’t happen, or it doesn’t happen for long enough.  So lately, I find that even if I force myself to work first thing, I get nothing done, but if I do a few things that are more pleasant, it goes better, or that’s the idea.  I got up early, or earlier than Jon.  I didn’t see the point to making him get up, just because I couldn’t sleep, so I went down and took care of the dogs, got breakfast, and made the first tea of the day.  I finished a large pot of tea down to one cup all by myself.  Unusual for me.  I mean I like tea, and black tea is great, but that was a lot.  Lucky for me caffeine doesn’t make me jumpy.  I actually find it calming. 

I managed to twist my bad ankle, again.  So I sat on the couch with ice on it while I ate breakfast and had tea.  It’s not a bad sprain, nothing major, but with it already injured I’ve learned to be cautious.  I’m fine, just a little more of an ache than normal.  But it did give me an excuse to sit still for long enough to watch a TiVoed episode of "Leverage", the new Timothy Hutton show on TNT.  Jon, Trin, and I all love the show.  One review said it was better than the last two Ocean’s movies, and we agree.  It’s a caper film every week, and very fun.  It’s bad tech, bad police work, bad burglary, bad martial arts, and normally I’d complain about all that, but the characters are so much fun that you don’t care.  You’re having too much fun to pick at it.  Sort of the difference between the movies, ’MAX PAYNE’, and ’WANTED’.  They both broke the rules of physics, guns, and the fight scenes were pretty, but not realistic, but in MAX PAYNE we complained about it, and it kept making us remember it was just a movie and have a hard time getting into the story. PAYNE was just so dark and depressing that you were never having a good enough time not to be bothered by the bad police work, the nearly incomprehensible fantasy story-line.  It was all jarring WANTED, on the other hand, was so much fun that you just bought into it.  We had Charles, who is ex-military, and ex-cop with us at both, and he had the same reaction we did.  (By the by, taking friends that are police or military, former or current to an action movie, you can be prepared to hear afterwards what the movie got wrong, because they know.  I’m the same way about biology.) 

Got to the desk after lunch, and have been plugging away ever since.  I’m back to promising myself small treats as I write.  Finish this page and get more water.  Finish two pages, have a sugar-free jelly bean (juicy pear, yum). Finish this section, and you can get more tea.  Write those notes, and sugar-free gum and water.  Jon and I were split down the middle on a bit of Las Vegas Metro SWAT research, so we called Shawn briefly so he could put in the deciding vote, since he was there, too.  Jon was right.  I don’t care whose right, only that the research is done right.  I’ve listened to "Music Man" and "Camelot".  I think either Gigi next, or . . . Hmm, maybe something new?  "Thoroughly Modern Millie" maybe; the Broadway show, not the movie with Julie Andrews.  The show has more original songs.