let's mourn the hamster

Ah, poor dead dumb hamster -- I found Ula-tek, stiff in rigor mortis, dead in his cage a couple days ago; forgot to record it in my blog. Trish took him out of his cage with a pair of gloves, to avoid any germs that might have infected the hamster. I took him out to dumpster heaven.

Other than that, things are slowly going back to normal, now that Trish is back at work. This frees me up to be creative, albeit I'm concentrating less on typewriter torment as my main outlet of words & images.

I started my science fact article for Analog yesterday, built it up to 850 words, so it's about 1/5 done. If Stan Schmidt liked my ideas for GALAXIES, "Bio-aesthetics" will surely blow him away -- if he'll reserve judgment on the sloppy research. It's hard to find books on philosophy & science at the Invisible Library, & it's impossible for me to read them.

John sent me some email regarding Jerome, but it got eaten by my spam filter. I still haven't figured out exactly how to retrieve held messages, I'll give that another shot now, before Trish gets out of bed.