Still having weird dreams, but I now attribute that to watching those crazy ghost shows on biography late night.

I am still working on that vamp story I started after seeing the preview for '30 days of night.'  However, I did go see the movie and while I loved the premise, I felt I was missing some things.  SPOILERS:  but what language were the vamps speaking?  I need to know that stuff!  Did Josh Hartnett and his check get it on before sunset?  If so, will there be a sequel with his love child who could be Blade-like???  Why was his wife SO FREAKING STUPID?!  His younger brother was lots smarter than she was, and a lot less troublesome.  But I guess that's why they were getting a divorce in the first place.  What about Renfield?  Where did he and his folks come from?  They're in Alaska, so one could guess Russian, but I don't want to guess, I want to know!

Other than that, it was sufficiently scary and gory.  The perpetual night, the blinding snow---yeah, great for scary.  I liked how the vamps had intelligence and even relationships, but also how the story kept to traditional lore, like with sensitivity to sun lamps etc.  I'd give it a B overall.

But I had to stop writing my own vamp story to finish my family history book.  I think I might even finish it this month! (December)  I have been looking into book printers and getting the ISBN numbers, but am forcing myself to not look too far ahead and just write damn it!  I'm at about 22K words, which even fails Nano standards, but the skeleton of the book is already written, as are the bare facts.  I am just fleshing it out.  I hope to send it to print by Feb at the latest, to have it ready to sell at our family reunion in Atlanta this July.  Stop by our family website for updates on that at www.jacksonpress777.tripod.com