Work...work...work...work...work...

Not. It took me all day to get myself ready to continue rewriting APoS, and I got through chapter 3. A lot of rearranging to do there. There was a jump from Brendan at home (being punished after displeasing his mother) to Brendan running around with his Protestant friend, Billy, that made no sense at all. So it's getting moved.

There's also how Brendan now needs to be dragged away to be with his mates...his Chinas, as he calls them. He gets so focused on his repairs, he shifts into another zone and can't hear when someone's calling to him, so they have to actually take him by the hand. They all think he's weird, but they don't care. He's a good goalie in football (soccer).

Of course, he's only like that when he has a project to work on; he doesn't always. He's also a bit prone to showing off to his Chinas, like when they get caught in a sudden rain and scramble back to his house. He makes tea and pulls out a tin of biscuits and provides milk and sugar, like it's a grand parlor...until his mother comes home and sees how dirty they all are and brings him down to earth. She's angry about the mud and filth in the place, but even more-so for him wasting money on such extravagances. 

Next inputting on this book is going to be slow-going but a lot more solid.

I almost just turned away from working on it, tonight, to watch the new Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris...but it's $20 to stream on YouTube! $20! Fuck that. I can wait for the DVD. I know Angela Lansbury played the part in a TV movie of the same name, but that's only available in VHS, and the series of books by Paul Gallico (the same guy who wrote The Poseidon Adventure) is out of print...though a new movie tie-in for this title is in the works.

Anything to avoid writing.