I dinked around some more with "The Last Arabian Prince" today, printed it out and had at it with a red pen, which resulted in enough changes to qualify for a third draft. Current word count is:

4,356 / 5,000 (87.1%)

There's still a few things I wished to tinker with before sending this out for the first time.

I nearly finished reading Everyday Life of the Aztecs last night but got too tired. Jeff also had decided he wants to read a book I like (so supposedly we can have something to talk about that interests me, though I'm suspicious) so I gave him The Caves of Steel to read. Being the lovable, geeky engineer guy he is, I think he might actually like Asimov (though I may need to go out and buy a new copy because the one I gave him is annotated and outlined out the ying-yang from a paper I wrote on it in college and he's likely to find that distracting.)