bamaace83 ’s Comments (group member since Dec 11, 2018)

bamaace83 ’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

I'm slowly getting my books updated. I added the ones that I'm working on planning on reading this week/weekend. I will work on getting the words updated for the ones that I've finished and I made some more meals. I've got watermelon coming up in a book this week. I'll have to see if the other words are around.

I thought I would get this done today but I didn't get to it so I will work on getting my books updated and my meals tomorrow and Tuesday.

I haven't gotten things updated and I also have some books to add. That sounds good to me. I have a few 200-300 page books that I'm binge reading today and tomorrow to help another challenge that would work for that. I still have bigger books going also.

I've added the books that I'm reading and plan on reading this week. I didn't add any of the ones under 300 pages though. I'll just keep those as a back-up if needed.

Thanks! I went back and forth between audible and the kindle edition because of work so I'll mark the kindle and then I can use all the alcohol words I found. :)

So question about page numbers because every challenge is different and this time it plays a difference and hasn't before. Do we put the page numbers of the edition we read or the edition listed first? It changes my book from being under 500 pages to over 500 pages so just double checking because that adds in the extra words. I'll start to get my books updated maybe tonight or tomorrow night. It's been a long couple of days.

Well.......they were winning. Now it's tied. It's going to be a long night. Yeah, the Cards did have some covid problems. The Braves have some pitching problems our ace popped his achilles at the beginning of the season and we've had to rely on some very young pitchers.

I found avocado in the book that I'm reading! Maybe one of those other fancy words will show up also. I'm having to read a book and mute the tv to calm my nerves of this baseball game. Tomorrow at work is going to suck....

Hehehe! Ohhh purple sweet potatoes...I think the fancy grocery stores may have those..maybe? I eat almost everything and honestly have never heard of or eaten an ube. I'm all for a house speciality. I'll keep my eyes out for it. That sounds like a good idea on tracking and could save some time. I know this time I had to go back to find the ebook version because I was reading audio and then I'm sure I missed some words. I'll have to remember this for next time.

Finding the words that can give us bonus points next round could be helpful also. It looks like I'm on the hunt for books that have healthy nuts as characters that eat avocados, legumes, and what the heck is an ube?!?

I was nosy....I went to see who was on the 1st place team....yep.....they read all the books...all the time. I'm on some teams with them in other things and some of them are pretty amazing competitors. To go off that, I love this team and I think we are majorly kicking butt. I also love seeing where our creativity takes us because we seem to all go in different directions which is pretty cool. I really like this challenge and have never done one like this before. It has really kept me on my toes. Now, we just need to figure out a way to derail Team 1's train or knock them off their flying brooms....

I read a lot that wasn't added. I ran out of spaces and didn't know I could keep adding. Also, can we make more than 148 meals or are we set on that. I know as a team we can totally read 100 books. Jenny has posted in at least a week going on 2 weeks. I'm hoping she come backs soon but we may have to pick up for her until then. She does step away sometimes. I have 2 500 page books on the table for this week and a few 300 page books. I read my shorter ones today/tonight/morning just to get them out of the way.

I think that's where those frozen meals come in at or at least that's what I'm thinking. So we have some meals in our freezer to feed the extra customers next time? I honestly have no clue that's just my best idea.

Sounds good to me. I tried to make more meals last night and that's when I realized we were capped at 148 when I went to ask Tammie to add me some more lines. I think we did a very good job diversifying this time.

A couple take-aways..it's going to totally be strategy because we could only make 148 meals and we have 160 customers. So with that, should we keep 12-15 meals for next time knowing that the numbers may be more than the meals we've created. I totally agree on the adults first and then the rest. Maybe give the adults the ones with the cool names so we can get more tips. This is interesting and I'm not spreadsheet savy so I'm just sitting over here and can be a sounding board if I need to.

I don't think we have a clear strategy just yet because we were waiting to see what these customers wanted. Apparently customers have arrived but I have no idea where to find them or even how to start that part, hopefully Shannon is hiding so she can come out and guide us on that part.

Quick question. When can we start counting books for part 2? I have 2 tiny books that I’m knocking out today for something else that I have no intention of using here because they are serious little books but I got a 500 plus page one I’m starting tomorrow. I read pretty fast in the weekends with no distractions so I just want to make sure that I can count it.

Thanks so much for helping keep me for sure in line and helping me understand this spreadsheet. Yay, for being ready to go. At least after this round, we will have a better idea of how to fluff things up and what to make. I know that I have planned 300-600 page books mostly so we can maximize ingredients. I really liked the The Wall of Winnipeg and Me so I'm hoping to read another one of hers this week or next week.

Alright, do we need to tweak this spreadsheet anymore? I think we have 4 hours until the orders start if I have the times right.

Okay, I fixed those meals and made some room for a couple more meals to make sure all the books get used. I'll be on tomorrow morning to go ahead and see if I can help use any random ingredients to beef up a few things.