...before I leave for the Woman to Woman conference. I'm supposed to be helping translate/sing in American Sign Language, and I'm nervous about it, but very honored to have been asked to participate. It's cool.

Another update is that I finished the comic book script. *Snoopy Dance* It's looking very good and the artist, Hotspur, is saying we can have it published by MAY. Which is incredible because then I can take it with me to the Mighty Mini-Con in Syracuse the first weekend of June.

Anyone in Syracuse? Please make plans to attend the MMC at the Oncenter. :-) It'l be VERY excellent!!

Have a stellar weekend, everyone! I'm off to the W2W!

On this day in 2005:

It was supposed to be fairly simple.  Go to the local UPS store to get my MS copied and bound, send one of my books to a friend who was kind enough to send money for one (go figure!), send the bound MS copy (proofing copy) to Mums for a fine-tooth-combing (can't believe I ASK for these) and go home.

I didn't wish to drive "into town" to the "nearest" Kinkos for all of this when the UPS store is right here nearby.  Silly me. Next time, I drive.

See, when the UPS store said they do "copying and binding on the business level" I thought, fair enough. They MUST have a high-volume, high-speed copier lodged in the back somewhere. For things like a 300+ page document that needs to be copied from a 1-sided doc into a 2-sided doc.  Right?

Way wrong.

And how was I supposed to know that Scooter would take an instant and violent aversion to even going INTO this particular store. Where did he WANT to go? The Chinese take-out down the strip mall.  Why? I have no idea. Anyway, he was obstreperous.  Cyclone was wonderful, but managing Scooter in a MOOD is beyond even his best big-brothering.  So.  I am in the position of waiting for the very patient and competent UPS store worker to hand-copy my book.  Feeding it into the copier.  Sheet by sheet.  It took over an HOUR.  And then the machine weirded out and wouldn't even finish it!!! 

While all that was going on, Scooter whined about going HOME. I knew he wanted to. I knew he was tired, but this was something that needed to be done and so I had to do it.  During business hours. Didn't have the option of waiting 'til Spousal Unit got home (I could have done that if I had gone to Kinkos!).  Cyclone was great.  Very patient, helpful, and he amused himself reading about the Periodic Table on one of those cheat-sheets so popular now.  You know, the laminated kind sold by the cartload?  Scooter wanted to leave. Wanted to push the handcart into the window (!!!) wanted to climb the counter and get behind it to explore the back (!!!) and so on.

Well, eventually it got copied and I arranged for shipment, paid for everything and all that.  I bet that young woman was very, very happy to see us go!!!

Next time, I'll drive the half-hour to Kinkos.  At ten at night, if need be, so I can go by myself.  Then, I'll enjoy the whole copying and binding experience and relax.

I might even bring coffee.

On this day in 2006:

Please read this for the latest update on Emily.  It is encouraging...greatly so!...to know she is responding! 

Thank you, prolificday for sharing this update with us.


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On this day in 2007:

Sometimes I'm too picky.

Saw what is supposed to be a scripturally-relevant image for a desktop wallpaper.  The scripture  is from 1 Peter and it deals with the devil as a lion, seeking to devour. Very vivid kind of passage, really.

The image of the lion, though, is not a roaring, prowling lion. It's of a lion who is yawning. I spent hours watching lions in Phoenix, with Cyclone when he was a little one. We'd go to the Phoenix Zoo and just watch the lions.  And as soon as I saw the image on the wallpaper, I knew it was a yawning lion, not a roaring one. 

Seems to me that they could have done better, is all. <smile> Or at least spent some time at a zoo.

Moral of the story:  Make sure illustrations are relevant to the message intended.