Gone from one page of dialogue done to four and a half pages done. Too tired to do any more tonight. There is some chance I could be done this weekend, but we'll see.

You know, I didn't even realize it was Friday the 13th until late afternoon when I happened to notice the date. I feel like it used to be a much bigger deal. People would make remarks about it -- the ones who were legitimately superstitious would be like "Well, I'm avoiding everything today" and everyone else would make joking or semi-joking remarks. Nowadays nobody really even mentions it.

Maybe it's one of those things that The Youths think is one of those old-people memes, like telephones and Barry Manilow. Maybe it's one of the thousands of things we just gradually culturally drop and then one day they require a footnote when someone encounters a reference to it in an old novel or what-have-you.

I was thinking that in the spare two weeks of March I was going to work on a new story (well, not "new" -- I mean something waiting in the Idea Queue), but I've reconsidered that and now I'm thinking I might go ahead with my plan to eventually redo the first Quitclaim. It's not representative of the other Quitclaims at all, and that's not going to change ... but in the time since I did that story -- it'll be five years ago in June -- I've gotten better at writing for the comic-book page (which is to say, writing less) and at lighting my way through the Space is Dark problem. In other words, I don't want to change it to a story more typical of Quitclaim; I just want to make the same story again only better. And I'd like to do it sooner rather than later, for various reasons.

I have no plans to remake any of the others, just as I have no plans to remake any of the Sleeper Squads other than #1, which I did. (I reserve a special case for Sleeper Squad #6, but that may never materialize.)