The landlord finished up the ceiling fan last night just in time to present a letter stating the rent will increase next month.

No wonder he was so nice about the installation! * shakes fist *

On other fronts the sixth draft of Ridge Runner is coming along. Right now is the messy part of the process where everything starts to blur. The first 120 pages are in good shape. Past that point things get interesting coherency wise. Cut and paste too often and these things will happen.

Tech guy found an authentication scheme that I can stomach to support downloads. Basically, there will be a single page which will require registration – in other words sign up for the mailing list. As long as the registration is valid you’ll be able to read whatever is on that download page. Ideally it will remember you between visits, so there will be no need to authenticate more than once. Downside is we have to use cookies, which I wanted to avoid but the alternative is to annoy everyone every time they click the link. And that’s just not cool.