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Check and double check
26 July 2006 07:53Hot morning in July. The temperature's over 70 and the humidity is somewhere between 88% and 94%. I took a quick walk and...I'm advised to expect lower than optimum air quality today, so it may be an air conditioning kind of day.
So, there's grass growing where the DEP clear-out work was done on one side of the house, and there may be wildflowers growing on the other site -- something green is poking up between the straw, and we'll hope the genuine Martha Stewart brand flowers will thrive.
On the day lily front: I've been bad about updates. This morning we have five, yesterday we had six, the day before five, the day before that, seven. With the old DEP shed out of the way we can see the flowers much easier and they seem to be doing well without the extra shadowing the shed provided.
The air is very, very still. Took time out yesterday to mount the flag pole we got while in Old Orchard Beach; on it is the sort of Halloween black cat with moon rising behind him. So what if this is July? Yesterday the cat was flying in a very nice breeze. Today... still, still, still...so it may be an air conditioning kind of day.
On work front...went to Augusta yesterday and came back from the printers with a half-dozen advance reading copies of Gunshy, which will all go out, I guess, with several now obvious problems. The old PDF/windows font bug hit and so we had a mismatch on one font; in several sections of the ARC the type's a but funky. I'm working on fixing that for the final...and that's one reason we drive the extra miles. My desk copy of the Gunshy ARC sports twenty three purple stickies...each one showing a section that needs fixing... in some cases that's one word, in some cases that's multiple paragraphs. This is how errors get introduced into books after they've been copy edited, so please don't blame the copy editor.
So today's work-order will be Gunshy, Buffalogenesis, and some modest web page fixes. Also, if the trimmer is actually charged up now, I may get a chance to neaten up around the old-style rose bush that survived the shed-moving.
And feels like that vague between the eyes allergy headache wants to act up...so it may be an air conditioning kind of day.
So, there's grass growing where the DEP clear-out work was done on one side of the house, and there may be wildflowers growing on the other site -- something green is poking up between the straw, and we'll hope the genuine Martha Stewart brand flowers will thrive.
On the day lily front: I've been bad about updates. This morning we have five, yesterday we had six, the day before five, the day before that, seven. With the old DEP shed out of the way we can see the flowers much easier and they seem to be doing well without the extra shadowing the shed provided.
The air is very, very still. Took time out yesterday to mount the flag pole we got while in Old Orchard Beach; on it is the sort of Halloween black cat with moon rising behind him. So what if this is July? Yesterday the cat was flying in a very nice breeze. Today... still, still, still...so it may be an air conditioning kind of day.
On work front...went to Augusta yesterday and came back from the printers with a half-dozen advance reading copies of Gunshy, which will all go out, I guess, with several now obvious problems. The old PDF/windows font bug hit and so we had a mismatch on one font; in several sections of the ARC the type's a but funky. I'm working on fixing that for the final...and that's one reason we drive the extra miles. My desk copy of the Gunshy ARC sports twenty three purple stickies...each one showing a section that needs fixing... in some cases that's one word, in some cases that's multiple paragraphs. This is how errors get introduced into books after they've been copy edited, so please don't blame the copy editor.
So today's work-order will be Gunshy, Buffalogenesis, and some modest web page fixes. Also, if the trimmer is actually charged up now, I may get a chance to neaten up around the old-style rose bush that survived the shed-moving.
And feels like that vague between the eyes allergy headache wants to act up...so it may be an air conditioning kind of day.
