Oh, I spoke with Matt Brady at Newsarama. My Hellion column concerning the softball game in San Diego got lost somewhere with all my pictures I sent him last week. It’ll go up today.

I’ve been up since about 5:30am as I’m really psyched about the new project. I finished a very detailed breakdown/treatment of issue 4 yesterday and editied this morning. I felt that it would be the hardest issue of the series and gave myself a cigar after it’s completion. Monday was a really slow day as I took Deb out to the Hamptons and Montauk for the weekend. We returned Monday afternoon, and was greeted with a ton of emails. I slogged through the day on issue #4, but I have to be honest — I was so tired from taking time off (even though we did a lot) and wanted to hang with the boys as I hadn’t seen them in four days. I’ve been missing them (with being gone for San Diego for six days the week before) and even though I’m looking forward to Chicago this weekend, wish it were a week or two earlier. I also miss Sheba our dog, so the day was mostly spent doing family stuff and cleaning the house (which looks like a bomb hit it).

Yesterday morning Beau Smith calle me to check Newsarama — I was shocked at the news of Michael George’s arrest to say the least. The George’s are close, personal friends of ours and Debi and Lauren were both crying after reading the report. It’s a terrible thing, just terrible and I was kinda in a fog the whole day, but at least I worked through it. I spoke with Jimmy P, Terry and Robin Moore and George Perez. We’re all close with the Georges and we all felt the same way. George had not even heard and I had to break the news to him. I wish I hadn’t — he was really upset.

Well, I’m on issue five of the six issue miniseries. I’m off to Chicago and a 6am flight Friday morning, so I better get to work. John M. gets home today or tomorrow and really want to send him my work for his approval tonight. Two very important issues in one day — damn. Better play a game of Call of Duty to get my mind off things!

So who’s going to Chicago and what days? I might not be able to do dinner as I’m going out with DC on Friday and am supposed to have dinner with the Wizard people AND the CBG people Saturday — how do I get out of that ?