"Is this the booby prize for running out of oil?" I asked.

That's about the size of it, yeah. Kind of disturbing they have a procedure for apologizing for this kind of thing. Oh, and they're charging us $600 for the tank full of oil.

In the box? An assortment of about a dozen cookies, each individually wrapped.

Also in the gift category, from iGrrrl on the occasion of the end of $evil_project, a massage, a pastry blender, a copy of Ahab's Wife, and who knows what-all else.

We bought each other an iMac, also on the occasion of the end of $evil_project. We've named her Fray, after a vampire slayer comic heroine. And yeah, she kicks ass.

Brought home a bottle of wine the other day, Ecco Domani Pinot Grigio. It's a nice wine. Wondering where the other wine stopper is, after dinner, only to discover it's in the neck of another bottle of Ecco Domani Pinot Grigio, in the fridge. Um, huh. Too much of a good thing?

So the music fun challenge is moving. I like the idea of voting on the theme. There'll probably be a Writing Fun Challenge as well, possibly overlapping the MFC, time-wise. Or, hey, you can podcast your story.

Another late night for poor toxicfur, who has a (much smaller, thank you very much) deadline next Wednesday. This one's only 30 pages as opposed to 800-ish, but it still needs to be written before yesterday, kthxbye. I almost feel guilty taking weekends off myself.