a) Started re-reading Fritz Leiber's "Swords in the Mist" today, and I find that Fritz Leiber is still my favorite writer, and that his Fafhrd & the Gray Mouser are still the finest characters in heroic fantasy. Great writer. Great read.

b) This winter is already getting real, real old. Snow+ wind chill is a bad thing.

c) From March of 2009 through today, I watched all ten seasons of Stargate SG-1, and enjoyed them immensely. (Courtesy of Netflix -- thanks, Sarah!) Stargate SGU, on the other hand, is pretentious and boring. MGM needs to drop SGU, or pep it up, or something, and at the same time, start making more SG-1 movies.

d) I need to live someplace warmer, preferably within a short distance of an ocean. San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver all come to mind, more & more. Soon.

e) The 1930's comic strip, "Terry and the Pirates," featuring the Dragon Lady as the arch-villainess, is surprisingly good, despite its definitely unmodern racial sensibilities.

f) I need to get out more; I need to date more. And there's a lovely woman at my health club, just the sight of whom brings both those thoughts to mind.

g) Day off tomorrow: gonna run some errands and hang out and have lunch at the MegaMall. Not my favorite spot on the planet, but at least it's warm inside.

h) My favorite Terry Pratchett Discworld novel is "Going Postal," and Sky-TV in England is making a TV movie out of it, to be broadcast in England on or about Easter. A good cast, including David Suchet. Probably be available over here in DVD eventually, but...oh to be in England, now that spring is...then & there. (Various of the Vimes novels plus "The Truth" duke it out for 2nd place.)

i) There is no "I" in "me." Curious, no?