BEST HUSBAND EVER

Ted is the BEST HUSBAND EVER. He just came home from Dublin with a laser printer for me. It does 28ppm. That’s more than 2x what my old one did. It’s apparently got a *duplexer*. That means using HALF the paper I usually do! YAY! And he *lugged* it all the way from the office supply shop to the train station and from the train station to home. My husband *loves* me. I love *him*! Best husband EVER! *squeeee*! Printer! My life can go on! Ok, so really what my…

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peektures

Dad took a zillion pictures of Cobh and the house we’ll be renting when he and Ted went down there yesterday. The peektures are here if you wanna look. 10 new pages or so written. Back to the grindstone.

cutting it close

About 60 pages left to do. A third to half of them need to be rewritten entirely. Whether I also need another chapter will depend on those rewrites. The book is due tomorrow. This, my friends, is called “cutting it closer than I’d like.” OTOH, I do have the advantage of being five hours ahead of NYC, so if necessary I can turn it in in the evening my time and still deliver it before close of business in the states. Thank God for editors who accept email submissions. :)…

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*BEAM*

loves me! She made me an icon! *BEAM*! I love it! *BEAM* Thank you! *beams idiotically!

I love people. :)

A neighborhood in Anchorage built a 16 foot tall snowman. “The kids and I started out doing a snowman, and it started getting kind of big, then it started getting kind of out of hand,” (the instigator) explained. “And then (my neighbor), he comes over and says, ‘Man, looks like you’ve got a big project.’ I says, ‘Yee-aah.’ He says, ‘Well, I’ll help you with it. ‘So he jumped in and that’s kind of how it went.” The entire neighborhood ended up helping. They were running up and down the…

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