Truck, truck, truck....

[kinzel]

that's right...

at about 3:50 PM an 18 wheeler snuck down our road and a courageous
driver offered to do a push-pull of the palletfull of Crystal Dragon
from the road to as close to the house as we could get...

but, this is mud season in Maine... which means we got the pallet off the liftgate and about two inches
beyond before his pallet-cart sank into the driveway. He made a quick recover and managed not to lose the cart the way we'd lost a UPS truck some years back....

We thanked him very much, signed for the books, and waved him away
into the gathering cool evening...

I went to Plan B, and offloaded the books into the back of the
Subaru, 1/3 of a pallet load at a time, and backed it to the edge of
the deck.

I expect the driveway may recover by next year's delivery...

Now, there's a poll posted on Rolanni's Live Journal
bearing on the question of *where* we should sign the book...

Comments

[scaleslea.livejournal.com]

Signed by the cats in driveway mud, of course...

Doc

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Tell MM you need a telesigner! And Margaret Atwood has one (http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/03/06/novel.invention.ap/index.html)

Just imagine signing the books in the MM warehouse, without shifting your bodies down there or the books to Maine.

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

Sorry,

just like I think computers cheat when they play chess... this would be a cheat.

I think we might as well not sign anything as sign without being able to handle the book, make sure ti;s good, touch it. I mean, they could just print our signature in blue ink, right?

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what the attraction is myself. According to the article, this was invented in response to book tours - which seems to miss the whole point of a book tour, IMHO. Not so much to put signatures in books as to create buzz, human community, etc. As you rightly point out, if all that is desired is a sig, go ahead and print it. Heck, printers can do nice embossing and colors. The sig . . . marks a personal encounter?

Still, you might not lose your driveway :-)

Although it would remove the cats maze aspect.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

...we'd lost a UPS truck some years back...

It sounds like you live in StephenKingLand.