Personal Note: That whooshing sound

Missed the deadline for the "Fire and Ice" challenge, confound it. The story's all laid out, but I've only managed to convert under half my handwritten draft/notes into typescript at this point. Bah, humbug. I'm pretty jazzed about this one, too: it's letting me do some things I'm pretty good at and forcing me to do others at which I could stand to improve. But I was late getting the prompt and then my computer flaked and this last weekend was devoured by a family visit (in terms of writing; in terms of hanging out with family, it blossomed like a petunia). So I'll just post it to Höllenbeck as usual when it's finished -- though I really, really, really wanted to see how it would stack up in competition. It's not my usual EdWin.