- So I had to cancel our July 4 vacation because I had to work except I didn't have to work I was just going to kick myself for turning down $2 a minute

- And the motorcycle is long overdue for some maintenance which involves some serious surgery, $400 worth of tools I needed to buy and replacement parts ordered from f'ing Dresden but I dusted the fuck out of an F430 Scuderia the other night and it remains the most awesome motorcycle in LA excluding Tom Cruise's Vyrus 987

- My daughter is hitting the terrible twos early and is being quite defiant and assertive but is now starting to form sentences and can parse if/then statements and is halfway to potty-trained

- Childcare is kind of a bear right now because I work a variable schedule and my wife has 4 babies to deliver in the next few weeks but we've got friends and resources and ingenuity and I was actually able to take her to swimming lessons last weekend

- Attempting to sell a novel is a total pain in the ass but literary agents are orders of magnitude more polite than movie agents and I'm getting far more traction than I deserve

- Am scheduled to begin a gig that will suck down 60 hours a week plus a 45-mile commute at full union pop with pension and benefits that will likely let me bank enough money in a year to let me and my wife coast for 2 years while she re-establishes her practice in Seattle, book sales be damned

So my instinct is to try and see the glass as half empty, but it's mostly runneth over.