There’s someone knocking in the wall…

[rolanni]

Well, so — today thus far.

Since I had a return to make to eBags, and, as was established on Monday, there is no public FedEx drop-off in the Waterville environs save a self-serve box too small to take the parcel that was being returned. . .deep breath. . .this morning I drove twenty miles to nearest manned — or, in this case womanned — FedEx office, in the Great City of Augusta, and got rid of the damned box.

That accomplished, I stopped at the Augusta edition of Staples and bought a USB stick/thumb-drive/whatevertheheck they’re called this week. It is, in fact, slightly smaller than my thumb (my previous stick was as long as my forefinger) 16 gigs for $15 — almost a buck a gig! — while the former stick packed a whopping 128 megs and cost somewhere in the vicinity of fifty clams.

What an age we live in.

Those two minor errands accomplished, I headed back to Waterville, aiming for the post office, the drug store, the grocery store, and the Cat Farm, in that order, driving happily through the grey, damp day, singing along with Warren Zevon, when suddenly! without warning! the car began making a Horrible, Horrible Noise.

Yeah, the muffler had come uncoupled and was dangling by a slender thread.

I made it to Mr. Smith’s repair emporium in a roar of, err, power, checked Binjali in — hey, he needs to be inspected this month, anyway, right? — called Steve to come get me, as Mr. Smith can’t get to repairs until tomorrow — and we did the rest of the errands together, which was nice, but unplanned.

So, home now, and doing catch-up, since tomorrow we’re needed down-coast on bidness of the house. And! I just realized that, if that bidness goes forth, I’m going to have to learn how to cook.

Oops.

But enough about me!

You may not know that today is a very special day. Indeed! Today is the day that my neighbor in Bangor, Mr. “James A. Burton” sees his book Powers published by Prime Books. Available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and all the Usual Suspects. Check it out; you won’t be sorry.

Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.

Comments

with a recommendation from you...

[bigbananaslug.livejournal.com]

I am looking forward to reading "Powers" tonight.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the signal boost!

[attilathepbnun.livejournal.com]

Will check it out!
Glad you survived the Muffler Incident! When that happened to me, the dang thing came apart in the middle!

Cooking

[catherine ives (from livejournal.com)]

These days its easy to pretend to cook while actually cheating. There's a lot of healthy stuff even in our grocery stores in our little town: frozen stuff, healthy cup a soups, meat and cheese substitutes of all kinds. Are you familiar with the company Annie's? they just went public. Very popular. they make very good, I'm told, mac and cheese out of boxes. I can't participate being ultra allergic to cheese. Canned soups very good. Frozen pizzas. Another company that makes a lot of very good healthy foods is Amy's Kitchen...Someone once said "I don't cook. I just reheat"...

I hope that Binjali is completely recovered soon.

[robotech-master.livejournal.com]

Never really saw what the big deal was about "learning" to cook. It's a cliché that cooking is somehow incomprehensibly difficult, but it's really not. If you can follow directions, you can cook.

I realize you're probably half-joking anyway, but on the off-chance you're serious, here's a really good cooking-for-beginners book: The Kitchen Survival Guide by Laura Brody.

[melita66.livejournal.com]

Are you planning to make house-near-coast more affordable by running it as a B&B?

Today is ALSO the day.....

[micheledear.livejournal.com]

that I read "Dragon Ship", and sadly, there is no more to be read at the moment. It was SO WONDERFUL, and I wish to have more, please.

I wish to thank you and Steve, yet again, for bringing to us these so-wonderful people and sharing their lives with us.

I look forward to MORE, as soon as may be.

Behold, the Glutton, I!

Wow!

[dean sutherland (from livejournal.com)]

Purchased Powers based on seeing it mentioned here. Started reading it. Rather a while later, I reached the end. (Note the complete lack of intervening activities... :) )

WOW! That's one darned good book.

Now searching for the author's previous work...

Re: Wow!

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

You'll need to look under James A. Hetley for the previous work -- which is, IMHO, uniformly excellent.

Mr. Hetley himself can be found on LJ, right here (http://jhetley.livejournal.com/), in case you'd like to go over and let him know what you thought of Powers.