Doug Van Pelt

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I spent 12+ hours working on a novel today, so when I tried to clean out my inbox tonight (this morning, really), I was shocked to read the surprising news. Last night, at our church's men's retreat kickoff, one of my friends told me that Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo had broken his pinkie and would be out about four weeks. I didn't want to believe it, but tonight I saw some news that it was being reported, at least. And then I saw that Adam "Pacman" Jones was suspended for several games. Wow. They lose their punter for several weeks on the last play in overtime (a blocked punt, where McBriar kicked right into a rushing pair of hands and/or helmet). But then I also saw that they were able to trade for wide receiver Roy Williams. Wow! That takes some of the edge of off all that bad news. This could help the team keep from losing the next four games in a row.

I am posting files for the online/digital edition of the new issue of HM. This morning I was able to fix about five or six glaring mistakes from the print version. It was very embarrassing to see "Jeff Mulhaneyuckipoo" listed in the "Pick of the Litter" section for an artist's name. Crazy. I also made some of the black and white pages into color and also made some of the pages drastically different, like the Grave Robber feature and the Becoming The Archetype feature. All the dvd review covers are in color now, too.

Tomorrow (today, actually) I take a day off from work. I'm looking forward to some cool time with my family.