woohoo!

So I took my Articles of Dissolution forms and permission letters and payment to the Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations yesterday, waited in line for about 20 minutes. After much hemming and hawing and checking of records, the woman finally relented and stamped an approval on my copy of the Articles. I swear it caused her pain; she was so obviously reluctant to let me go free without further bureaucracy.

When she handed me my papers and said, "That's it, you can go", it took ENORMOUS restraint for me not to jump in the air and cheer and kiss everyone in the room. Well, maybe not everyone.

In theory, I shouldn't be getting any more harassing calls or letters from the government about anything Inkspot-related ever again. I'd love to have a ritual "burning of the corporate seal and minute book" party in the near future, but with my luck I'll find out I need both items someday. Does anyone use their corporate seal? I seriously want to know. I don't think it would burn very well, anyway. The minute book, however, would make a fine blaze.

Some people have asked me if I plan to ever start up another Inkspot or Inklings, particularly since my non-compete contract with Xlibris (which forbids me from doing exactly that) expires next year.

My unhesitating answer: No.

While I loved working on Inkspot, at least until things got brain-numbing, I can't tell you how much I'm enjoying being able to finally focus on my own writing. I also enjoy not working 12 hours a day, the constant stress. Sometimes I look back through my Blatherings archives to when things were the worst; those days seem so far away now.





Jodi, Allison and I went out for sushi and a movie in Richmond Hill last night. We saw Simone, which is about a producer who uses a computer-generated actress for the lead in his movie. General consensus: entertaining, but not enough was done with the idea. The best part of the movie was seeing the Two Towers trailer! It was the first time I had ever seen it on the big screen. It looks VERYVERY cool. Also saw the trailer for Chicago which looks intriguing.

Links/News:

Spam makes up 36% of all e-mail traffic. Some predict that it could take over the majority of message traffic by the end of 2002. (Source: ZDNet)

Check out this trailer for Comedian, which is pretty funny. You'll recognize the voice of the guy in the booth for sure. :-) Thanks to Jeff for the link.

Blue French Fries? (from BoingBoing)

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Today's Blatherpics:

	Sara on the merry-go-round at Centre Island yesterday.
	Sunrise at the cottage last week.
	Zoë during my visit earlier this month. Zoë turned 1 year old yesterday! Here's the Blathering entry in 2001 where I posted her birth announcement.