Forward progress...

No work on DD yesterday, but I did rewrite section 4 of IS.

Once again, I'm supposed to have a great day. Given how normal most of my recently-predicted 'great days' have been, I'll take this with a grain of salt.
As far as your work is concerned, today may well be the day where you get the green light for something you have been waiting for...an issue is being resolved, you are gaining acceptance. Who knows, there might even be a promotion on the cards. But most definitely, your situation will be more secure.

Talked last night with a friend about what gets a book sold (someone who's also getting no love from agents).

I think there are 5 contributing factors, and one need not have all five to break through:
1) Talent
2) Perseverance
3) Marketability (like being a sixteen-year-old, or recently dead, or having talked to a Presidential candidate)
4) Knowing the right people
5) Luck (the editor/agent doesn't spill coffee on their pants and use your query to mop it up.)

Any other thoughts that don't fit into that list of 5?

Weird Coincidence...

In the story I'm working on that happens to be set in Saratoga Springs, I have a horse named Blue Streak. He's the farm's prime two-year-old, their best bet for the Saratoga Special.

I've done a load of research for this already, but I was just on-line trying to find an aerial picture of the Oklahoma Track (I'm trying to figure out what color the roof of the grandstand is) and ran across the rather uncomfortable information that the local high school are the Saratoga Springs Blue Streaks....

Oops. Perhaps I should change that.

ETA: I should explain that my story is set in 1905. I haven't turned up the HS in my research because I doubt it existed then....Oh, and the horse dies.