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How To Recognize An Instrument From A Long Way Away

How to tell an instrument from a long way away. Number one:

Nope, not an instrument.

You Should Buy This

You should buy this. And read it. That too,

but at least buy it.

I Kind Of Cleaned For This?

I kind of cleaned my house for nothing. A friend was coming into town for a conference and I cleaned my house over the weekend because he was going to stop by. Of course, the conference was cancelled out of an abundance of caution over the COVID-19 situation so now he’s not coming. I cleaned for nothing. Well, kind of. I didn’t really “clean” clean. I just cleaned up enough so I could still let him in the house while saying: “You’ll have to pardon us, we’ve been busy and it’s a little messy.” I cleaned enough to be able to at least let him enter the house when I said that, not a serious clean.

Still.

My Absence From AWP Had Nothing To Do With COVID-19

I just wanted to assure everyone that my absence from AWP had nothing to do with COVID-19. So many people had cancelled because of virus concerns. I had never signed up to go. Instead, I just didn’t want to spend the money or the time.

I think the last one I went to was Tampa. Shannon went with and did all kinds of cool stuff while I was at the conference. I kept feeling like I would have rather just been out seeing Tampa instead.

This conference costs usually over a grand if you want a close hotel, and at least a couple hundred dollars or more for flights. When I get there and see a few people before wandering around the book fair for a while and then getting overwhelmed and isolating in my room, I just can’t see doing it so often. I think I’ve had enough for a while.

This Is A Remarkably Specific Yet Inapplicable Comment For One Of My Book Plug Posts

I’ve been getting a lot more spam comments on here recently. Probably more than actual readers. Regardless, some of them interest me. This spam comment is remarkable from how specific it is, at the same time that it is utterly inapplicable to one of my book plug posts:

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Definite WTF moment on this one. I almost wonder what product they are talking about, or if I should add titanium or ceramic plates with ceramic tourmaline heaters to my books.

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