U. F. FLO.

I saw some thin, illustrated children's books at Walmart the other day (photo later if I become un-lazy). They were $1 each, and though the covers and pictures within looked really good, they were printed on so-so paper and perhaps not typeset as well as they could have been. I have to admit, I saw them and thought about how fiercely the battle over ebook pricing has raged; I wonder whether they're selling well, and what their existence means for Walmart's future moves.

Meanwhile, in sort-of-an-author-now land, I've been coding my brains out and feeling out the formatting process with a short story of mine. Tailoring my CSS for the Kindle platform was a giant PITA until I remembered the Kindle Previewer and downloaded it; the Kindle for PC program is soooooo slooooooow, especially when you have any more than 50 ebooks in your library at any time. I also don't know where I would be without KindleGen, which beats Mobipocket Creator on control and speed hands down.

Lastly, in a fit of nostalgia-fueled madness, my husband and I created characters on yet another WoW Vanilla private server. It is surprisingly fun, mostly because we're rolling around as two mages, and because it is so surreal seeing what changed and what didn't. The opening cinematics still look great today, to the point that I understood why people went ahead and played the shit out of suboptimal classes even back then; I came away from that video wanting to roll a hunter, lousy pet AI and quality of life be damned.