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The Amazing Disintegrating Jeans
Tuesday, November 16th, 2004 08:30 pmBack in the summer, against my better judgment, I bought a couple pair of acid-washed jeans, compelled by the fact that they (1) fit and (2) were cheap. This morning, I notice a series of frayed holes starting at the hem of one leg and going up a good two inches. Swiss cheese jeans. Not the fashion statement one wishes to make at the beginning of a Maine winter.
The day and the work unto included data entry, bookkeeping, data entry and for a change, data entry. Everything should now be ready for the bigBigREALLYBIG mailing of With Stars Underfoot. I make it out as exactly 400 pre-orders. The print-run is 500 chapbooks. Assuming the usual number of eek-I-missed-the-pre-order-can-I-still-buy-a-copies? after Thanksgiving, we're looking like selling out of the first printing before Christmas. Yowza!
Tomorrow, the old stove she is disconnected early by the propane company. Somewhat later, the merry gnomes from Home Despot will come and take it away, leaving in its stead a beautiful new appliance with a simmer burner, a high-heat burner, two normals -- all of them enclosed, and an oven that will, I hope, not pop, spit, WHUMPF and fuss; and which will hold its temperature and not try to kill the humans as a sort of side hobby. Thursday morning, the propane company will return and hook-up the new stove. And then we shall see.
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Project: Crystal Dragon
New Words Written: 619
Total Words: 35,513
Goal: 120,000+/-
The day and the work unto included data entry, bookkeeping, data entry and for a change, data entry. Everything should now be ready for the bigBigREALLYBIG mailing of With Stars Underfoot. I make it out as exactly 400 pre-orders. The print-run is 500 chapbooks. Assuming the usual number of eek-I-missed-the-pre-order-can-I-still-buy-a-copies? after Thanksgiving, we're looking like selling out of the first printing before Christmas. Yowza!
Tomorrow, the old stove she is disconnected early by the propane company. Somewhat later, the merry gnomes from Home Despot will come and take it away, leaving in its stead a beautiful new appliance with a simmer burner, a high-heat burner, two normals -- all of them enclosed, and an oven that will, I hope, not pop, spit, WHUMPF and fuss; and which will hold its temperature and not try to kill the humans as a sort of side hobby. Thursday morning, the propane company will return and hook-up the new stove. And then we shall see.
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Project: Crystal Dragon
New Words Written: 619
Total Words: 35,513
Goal: 120,000+/-
