Week 3 Prompt: A one-hundred dollar bill is crumpled and lying in a stone planter outside a restaurant door, half-hidden by the sculpted juniper bushes growing there. Many people pass by, and then someone sits on the edge of the planter, and discovers the money. When the finder straightens the bill, something is written on it...

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It’s 7 degrees (f) out this morning, but I’m cozy on my couch, thanking MLK Jr. for the day off. Of course I still have plenty to do – namely all of the bookkeeping for my book business that I’ve been putting off for months now. Yes, folks, I suck at bookkeeping – not the actual keeping of the books (thank you, Quickbooks), but just getting it done. It’s one of the few areas I torture myself with on a regular basis by putting it off until the job is so huge it takes far longer than it should. If I do nothing else this year, I really need to take a couple hours every month to get my books up to date so I don’t face this oh-so-daunting task again. But first, I get to play catch up...

In other news, as you can see above I have the cover art (very cool, isn't it!) for Flash 52, the book of prompts I wrote to go with this year-long challenge. Which means whenever I get the book formatted, I can release it. I was going to do that over this long weekend, but haven’t quite gotten to it, so next weekend is looking better. Getting closer though!

Speaking of flash, last week’s piece is posted at my alter-ego’s blog, due to the somewhat graphic nature of it. You can swing by over there to check it out if you’re interested. Looking at this week’s prompt, I dare say this week’s story will be fine to post here again.

Tomorrow is my birthday – I’ll be 37. I always take my birthday off from the day job, so I’ll be sleeping in, reading an MS from a friend that I’ve been waiting and waiting and waiting for, writing, and working on cataloging my collections. It’s going to be a good day doing things I love, and I can’t think of a better way to mark another year.

As you can see, I haven’t done anything with the web site/blog...and I probably won’t for awhile. They need a change, for sure, need a little sprucing up, but it will wait.

That’s pretty much all the news I have for this week (so far, anyway). Anything fun going on in your world today?

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