I was finally able to synch Hotmail with Outlook Express on my new computer. Damn. Took me a month to get it right! So, now I don't need to juggle 2 computers at once. What a relief. My parents have expressed interest in my old comp so I'll clean it up, finish transfering the last of my useful files and ship it out East. I'm finding there's a bunch of crap on there that I don't need but don't wanna erase either. Essays from uni, e-mails stretching back 8-9 years, various sketches and photoshopped graphics I never completed but are now too outdated to go back to and ancient pages I scanned of my own work. I'm talkin' ancient. Like high school! This all just takes up space and will never be opened but it's comforting to know I still have this stuff kicking around. It's like my diary in a way. It would be a shame to lose it all.

I started to finally write my new book a couple days ago. I've never written a full script before so I'm just running through each scene like a crazed baboon on a typewriter. I figure I can clean it up and edit once everything I had stuffed in my head and jotted on loose leaf OUT. Next step will be to schedule myself and set deadlines. I've roughly broken it down to completing 3-4 pages a day in order to finish in 2 months. I know some artist's who have set the same pace on their books and it seems to work for them. I'll let you know how this all goes.

Oh, I've almost kicked the smoking. I'm pretty proud of myself. I'm down to one a day. Not even. I should be totally off it by next week.

TAK