Everywhere I go people know the part I'm playing

Here's recent progress on my 19th century D.C. spy caper about a powerful Difference Engine that will end the Civil War - now with warhawk conspiracies, clockwork assassins, two presidents with more in common than they know, two spies with less in common than they think, a conflicted U.S. Marshal, and Bonus! not-at-all mad scientist who can save the world if someone will just give him a chance:
Project: Fiddlehead
Deadline: October 1, 2012
New words written: 4754 (respectable 2-day total)
Present total word count: 45,062 words





Things accomplished in fiction: Informative, dangerous banter between one good guy and one bad woman; wrote a letter to the editor.

Things accomplished in real life: Daily jogs with the dog before breakfast; errand-running at Target; not insignificant yardwork, pruning back the rose tree, a massive mulberry, and a butterfly bush that desperately needed some containment; installed some awesome little solar LED lights around the back yard (found them for a little more than a dollar apiece on clearance at the aforementioned Target); cleaned and refilled bird baths and bird feeder; exchanged some important correspondence here and there; refereed cat and dog relations.

Cat and Dog Relations: The cat is perfectly content to live with the dog, so long as he doesn't actually try to touch her. This is tough for the puppy, who would give his great fluffy tail in order to lick her to pieces...but he's learning to give her some space, and I think she actually appreciates it.

Other: Figured out a BRILLIANT THING to solve a problem I was knocking my head against re: potential secret project. Am chuffed. Someone over on FB asked what, precisely, a potential secret project was. The answer is simple: it's a project I can't talk about, because it may or may not ever come to fruition. Right now this is Schrodinger's Project. I'll talk about it when and if I can, don't worry. But for now, I'm going to log off and get some supper...and then go fiddle around with it.