Friday I stayed up till nearly midnight hanging out with Jed and Ted and Mike and Johnzo and Victoria. (We think there should be a cable channel called the Fire Channel. And we fear that someone will start turning out Philip K. Dick sequels: We Can Build You Again, Our Friends From Frolix Nine, We Can Remember It For You Retail.) Saturday I stayed up till nearly one over at Dave and Marcy’s, watching all three LOTR movies back-to-back, in the extended cut. (Frodo got a raw deal.) Yesterday I worked on “Planet of the Amazon Women” a bit (though not enough), and watched “When We Were Kings” (which gave me a renewed appreciation for Will Smith’s “Ali”) and “Atomic Café” (which gave me a renewed appreciation for Fallout), and went to bed early. Today I still couldn’t get up till ten to seven — less than an hour before sunrise.

Some day this winter’s gonna end.