The world's greatest mug

Yesterday, I was given a new mug. This is no ordinary mug. It has a picture on it that Samuel made in art class earlier this year. It's a guy riding a wave and saying "da da da da da." I thought it must be because of me - Sam used to call me Da Da - but he looked at me like I was extremely dense and said, "He's singing the Batman theme - "da da da da da da da, Batman!"

Spring has finally arrived, it's been over 50 degrees every day and the snow is gone. I'm hoping that the change in weather is going to give me the ambition to write a great novel. Or even a mediocre novel. Any novel, really. Even a short story would be nice.

I'm reading Jaws, the novel by Peter Benchley that the classic movie is based on. It's pretty good, but it's very different in some ways from the movie. For instance, the character of Hooper, played in the movie by Richard Dreyfus, is really good looking and sleeps with Brody's wife. That would have made for a very different movie, for sure.

I think I'll do some writing now on the new novel I'm chipping away at. I don't want to give anything away, but let's just say it is fantastic and unlike anything ever written before. Are you interested yet? I know I am. I can't wait to finish writing it and find out if the hype is true.