I’ve decided (again) that every day of the week needs its own acronym. For instance, on Friday’s we get TLIF (Thank Loki it’s Friday). Today we get CBIM. Curse Ba’al it’s Monday. I can curse Ba’al because he’s dead and would probably just laugh at my curse even if he wasn’t.

Mini Full-length rant re: #RANDOMfest: apparently over the weekend, the linky host I used to use decided he wanted to be paid for his service. I don’t blame him for this. Writing code, hosting websites, is all time consuming and expensive (I know, because I do it for a living). He had every right to make the decision he did.

However, the e-mail I received with this notification came right as the weekend started. It gave me until this morning to pay or lose my lists. Two days. And the e-mail was formatted in such a way that it went straight to my spam folder (highlighted lines everywhere, big bold ‘act now to keep your account’, that kind of stuff.) It also promised that I had until Feb 21 to export my lists, I just wouldn’t be able to make new ones after today.

Apparently I’m doing something wrong, because I couldn’t export my single list this morning. So I’ve spent the last hour trying to recreate the blog list for #RANDOMfest. I really want it to be a success, so I hope I got everyone. If I missed you, I’m very sorry and I hope you’ll let me know/participate anyway. If I got your link wrong, let me know that too and I’ll fix it.

And to the person who owns the Linky site in question, I would have paid your subscription fee if you had given me more than Saturday and Sunday to do so, and hadn’t obliterated my list immediately thereafter. That kind of service is not something I’m willing to pay for. Instead I’ll be paying the new link host if this blogfest works out.

Beyond that, I spent Friday doing some writing research. I started to wonder if anyone writes books like the one I’m working on right now. You might think I should know that, but this is one of those ideas that morphed outside of any genre I’m familiar with. Except when I started thinking about it I realized I have read it before. Once in Microserfs, and once in High Fidelity.

So now my goal is to find more books like this. Especially since they’re more than 10 years old and there must be something more modern out there. I’ll tell you what I’ve learned is that searching for ‘Contemporary Women’s Fiction’ brings up a series of books no longer known as ‘Chick Lit’ and searching for ‘Contemporary Men’s Fiction’ brings up the same books, plus several that are gay erotica. Not what I’m looking for. Basically think chick lit, but for guys. Or if you prefer, Hackers meets Sex in the City. My new phrase: Dude Lit

Any recommendations?