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Book Promo And Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike

Sorry this is truly ridiculously late, but I had forgotten I had a two hour panel to record for virtual Liberty con. I’m now wondering if I’m on any others. I never did much I was supposed to do, since the House thing hit. We’ll see — SAH

Welcome to the Sunday Book Promo

*Note these are books sent to us by readers/frequenters of this blog.  Our bringing them to your attention does not imply that we’ve read them and/or endorse them, unless we specifically say so.  As with all such purchases...

Nerves

We get to do the inspection this week. Right now it’s really up in the air whether we’re buying this house or not. The prelim inspections have discovered 20k of repairs that need to be done up front, before we occupy or get the house insured. And you know, we were already at the top we were willing to pay.

But we like the house and don’t wish to give up, so we’re going to travel to do the full inspection. Then I’d say it’s renegotiate or back out.

Either way, house reno is in my future....

Tools of the Trad

I seem to be incurably addicted to making, doing, changing and improving things.

At some point, like maybe ten years ago, I finally was able to buy the right implement to do whatever it was I was attempting. I have no idea what it was, at this time, but probably something to do with faux-finishes.

Before that, getting the proper implements was never possible. I have realistically marbled tables and other surfaces with two old brushes, a bunch of q-tips, and some crayons and half a oil ...

Have Fun While I’m Busy

I’m finally awake enough to work. About time.

So I’m going to try to work. It’s important.
Will do something more posty tomorrow.

And don’t tell me:

Because let’s face it, ya’ll are goofy.

To amuse you while mommy is working I’m not here, why don’t you hie over M. C. A. Hogarth’s post on how to write blurbs, and then write blurbs for the books below, which, yes, I totally made up (in a hurry, from Pixabay. With the fonts on the laptop). Make them interesting!

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Oh, We’ll Certainly Go Aroving

This morning I woke up with a poem by Byron in my head. Which when recited aloud as my husband woke up caused him to say “That is not Shakespeare. Are you all right?”

Well, yeah, I think I’m all right. I just feel suddenly very old. But honestly, that might be me being mawkish because what we just did would have beat the living tar out of me even at 30. In fact, it did. And what I propose to do would have been insane, even then. And yet it must be done, and I am not willing to indulge my ...

Hobbles

I have talked before about how my parents were not well off when I was growing up. Though with them, it’s always hard to know where not well off ends and “must save because we both have major security issues” begins. But probably 50/50 on that, because even though I was born 10 years into their marriage, they got married young, neither of them had much, and they got married during an economic downturn where dad had trouble finding work, and mom had to do a lot of things like buy a knitting ...

When the Bough Breaks

Most human beings run their lives to patterns and habits.

Which means most of society runs on habit too. Which is good, since then we know what to count on, and as we often say, humans mostly want tomorrow to be more or less what it is today.

Unless situation is well nigh unbearable, a large portion of the population will just want things to go on as they are right now. Or not too different.

The tragedy — and glory — of humans is that we dream of really big things, but in the end w...

House Under Contract

Image by Stanly8853 from Pixabay

House under contract. Now doing inspections from hundreds of miles away. We might go down for the major inspection. We’ll see how things line up. Not where I’d MEANT to go. About 100 miles away. So, within the range of my malfunctioning sense.

There’s a couple of iffy points that could cause us to run yet. Don’t know.

If we don’t run….. OMG so much to do before we close, so this house can go up shortly after. Because I don’t want to get stuck out of a c...

Maybe putting an offer in today

Probably won’t be accepted, since Denverites have found it, but it’s worth a try. So dealing with that.

Again you guys, kindly, don’t burn down my blog. Thanks muchly.

Wasted Days and Wasted Nights- by Orvan Ox

Wasted Days and Wasted Nights- by Orvan Ox

Sometimes advancements happen by determination. The obvious, mid-latter 20th example is “Let’s get someone to the Moon.” But quite often advancements happen by what is called serendipity. As Asimov put it, “The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not “Eureka!” (I found it!) but ‘That’s funny…”

This was prompted by a question on Twitter, which is a very simple question that likely has no One Tr...