The CEM has landed!

CEM, with a fat cat for scale
Originally uploaded by Amanda Downum

Behold it here in all its 300+ page glory, with Sigrdrifa I (Plumpiana, La Gordita) looking on. I haven't yet seen what she thinks of the envelope.

Since UPS decided to send this after-the-weekend-when-we-get-around-to-it delivery, tonight's climbing will be preempted by the quest to Office Despot in search of professional-quality erasable colored pencils so I can get started on this mountain of paper, which needs to be back in the mail in less than a week.

Whee!

How much STET could a woodchuck STET...?

After three stores, I have the proper erasable colored pencils. (TDC's is vermillion [it says so on the pencil, even if my CE says vermilion]) I have no decanter of sherry, sadly, and I skipped a beer to make up for skipping the gym.

Chapter 1 is mostly done. So far I've STETed three times--with another pending while I double-check something to make sure I'm not contradicting myself--and pages 19 and 24 have no green marks!

And while I've decided not to die on this particular hill--mainly because these pencils ain't cheap--I shall say here for the record:

Grey grey grey grey grey grey grey grey grey grey grey grey grey grey grey grey!