Peeking into the rock

I don't know what the letters stand for, but I know what it is: it's a bit of HTML that fetches a daily thing like a blog. I've been collecting RSS feeds (suggestions welcome) so I can get all this stuff in my livejournal flist. One of my favorites is rijksfeed which is an almost-daily presentation of a painting from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, along with a breif commentary. Today it's the painting of the tailor and his apprentices and what's so cool about that is I saw that very painting! in person! this summer!

On another front, in the last three days I wrote 5K on the Altagracia book. This is one that started as a self-indulgent school romance set on my terraformed art-project world, all about culture clash and angst, which to me are like the most self-indulgent things evar to write about. Anyway it has developed almost into a whole novel, with a bunch of exposition (including a breakout infodump second chapter "Walkabout on Abundance" which starts
( even though I hope this is not boring, I'm not taking any chances )
On another front, I now officially love squash.