Well, we've hit page 67 of 87…but still more has to be erased.

It's shaping up fast. I've hit the really thorny bit, where there's good stuff and not-for-this-book stuff about equally mixed in every line. This is the hard sort of thing to sort out.

First you copy the entire 'old' file, and rename it, to save a 'fair copy' as it used to stand.

Then you rename the file you're going to turn into the Revised book.

Ultimately, you create a second 'old' file, and rename it Second REvised BOok, and erase from it everything you kept from the Revised book.

So One Book becomes book A and book B, with a lot of A and only scraps of B. It's not that I was totally wrong, it's that B was getting into A and totally diverting it off course.

My brain hurts. But it's working. I'm actually enjoying this a lot more than I have enjoyed producing 97 pages that weren't working.

Jane's got the office looking splendid.

I found out what was going on with the tax return: it's good. I was reading a copy of the Federal report that goes into the Nonresident report, and they owe me money, not the way around, because there was a withholding on stuff that shouldn't have been sent to Oklahoma in the first place. It has to do with income from part of the farmland I inherited, and that's all good: I now know what's going on.