rolanni | In Which Sunday is Monday (Reply)

What went before: Um. I read 100 pages of I Dare today, and wrote no new words. I haven't read I Dare for more than a decade, so I hope I may be excused for laughing at Younger We's bon mots and pretty sentences (“Ah, I understand! A sacrifice upon the altar of duty! How like Shan, to be sure!”) (They were Liadens, right enough, with the pretty cantra pieces dandled like candies ’tween their slender elvish fingers and sweet words of flattery in their mouths.)

Trooper ate an envelope of bisque, most of a smol can of tuna and gravy, an envelope of stew and a spoonful of seafood in gravy for Happy Hour. Also, I saw him take at least two, and maybe four crunchies out of the buffet.

I ate meatballs in ginned up red sauce, with beans and rice. I have leftovers. They're not hideous. Win.

As soon as I finish up here, I need to go fold the towels and put them away, and then find something to eat again. Jeez.

Everybody stay safe; I'll see you tomorrow.

/S/u/n/d/a/y Monday, sunny and getting warm, thus late in the day. Windows in my office are open, but that's probably not for long, now.

Yeah, woken up before six because Trooper was getting sick in the hallway. Better than alarm clock, the sound of a cat barfing.

Breakfast was a slice of raisin bread, toasted and two cups of tea. I should've done better, but -- not awake. Washed my face and carried my second cup of tea back to Steve's office, where I commenced in to reading I Dare.

Y'know what? This is a great book. Yes, I'm saying it, as shouldn't. Everybody should buy it (yes, yes -- choir, preach). It should go into every Little Free Library on the planet, and in every public library. I dunno who these guys were who wrote it, but boy they knew their stuff. It probably shouldn't get awards, because then nobody would read it, and it really deserves to be read.

Taking a break now to do banking -- the April royalties have landed, which we see are continuing to shrink -- and to feed Trooper half a smol can of gooshy food, which he ate, so yay. Getting ready to go downstairs and do my duty to the cats, and take a walk, then back to reading.

Ah, someone, somewhere asked why the heck I've gotta be reading a book that had already been published. Surely, there are no errors to catch.

ROFLMAO

About that. There aren't many (that I've caught) this time -- but, aside a couple of smushed-together words, and some missing itals, the Big Problem with this iteration is! Spacing issues. Scene breaks are missing entirely, which is ... disconcerting, and yanks the reader out of the story, so, yeah, those have to be fixed.

And! Why is there a different cover? What was wrong with the Other Cover?

Um, well -- it's a new edition. And, yanno, some people didn't like the Other Cover, so this gives them a second chance to like a cover.

ANYhow.

How's everybody doing today?

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