Actually, to show my utter geekery, the new feature I'm most excited about is the new blog templates by web-guru Jeffery Zeldman. Though the Post-by-email feature will be quite useful for bypassing the friggin firewall at work.

In other news, Pastrami. Specifically, I ate some of the best pastrami I've ever had last night at Canter's Deli in the Fairfax district of H'Wood. I swear the beast was 5-inches high, but there wasn't a shred of fat to been seen. Just lean, mean, sweet-cured 'strami on Rye so good we bought a loaf to go. I also ordered a bowl of matzo ball soup, and, on first glance, I thought there was a softball floating in the broth. Turns out it was just a big-ass ball o' the matzo. And damn-fine soup it was.

I'm about 30 pages into the first "phase" of my re-write, and though it has been slow going, I think I'm making some real improvements. The proof will be in the pudding though, and we'll see what happens with my self-imposed May 31st deadline rolls around.