I'm groggy this morning. I have a bit of a headache as well, which doesn't mix with being groggy very well at all.  The good thing is, that I don't have to go anywhere today to get to work. The roads are a mess my wife informed me after dropping the kids off at school.  So once I imbibe enough coffee this morning to actually start functioning I'll be set.

Flipping through a book I just sold on ebay as I was getting it ready to mail out, I came across a great little quote by Normal Rockwell.  It went something like this, "Painting is like throwing a ball against a wall, it never comes back to you as hard as you throw it. So throw it hard!"  Such sage like advice there.

Colored the cover for issue 4 of my Dabel Bros./Del Rey book Take a Chance yesterday, in addition to more pages from the Grimm Fairy Tales Annual.  Superheroes and fantasy in the same day, it doesn't get a whole lot better than that :D  I'm hoping to get a great deal of stuff accomplished today as well, since I was planning on taking all day Thanksgiving off.  Which means I have to work that much harder before and after to make up for that of course.

I'm trying to ignore the news lately, as it manages to frustrate, depress, and anger me all at once.  Hard to escape that sort of real life stuff though.  What would help is if checks would come in the mail on a more regular basis.  Speaking of just such a thing, there SHOULD be a rather sizable check in the mail today, which would make me happy.  So I'm hoping when I walk the 100 feet down the driveway through the snow to the mailbox, there's actually a check in there.  Because freezing your giblets off to get the mail, and having it not contain anything to warm you up like money (or the new Victoria Secret's catalog) feels like a waste, you know?  

Alright, not a whole lot else on my mind, it's sort of cluttered still a bit, and as I said, groggy.  I may have to make a second pot of coffee today after I get around here. It just feels like a 2 pot of coffee sort of day today.