A Professional Dilettante

Spent pretty much the entire the day between Smashwords's meatgrinder and Amazon's publishing thingy that doesn't have a name so far as I know.

So far, we're waiting the obligatory 12-24 hours for Amazon before it shows up in their catalog.

And True Gold is available on Smashwords, but because they appear to have temporarily run out of ISBNs, I don't know how long it will take before I can get it populated out to B&N, Kobo, iTunes, etc.

I will do a much bigger drumroll for Amazon, and another one when True Gold gets populated out to all the other sites.

But I had to say something. It's not as much work to get the thing up onto the selling sites as it is to write it, but it certainly takes time and concentrated effort [wry g].

After living here for nineteen years.

And it's lovely.

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Oh, and I finished the revisions! Now just waiting for my proofreader to finish up [g].

For the new baby of one of the granddaughters of my best local friend. I've known the mother since she was in the same place the baby (due in October) is in.



I didn't want to cut up the polar bear fabric into smaller pieces, for fear of ending up with a lot of decapitated polar bears. So this was what I came up with.

One baby quilt down, two to go -- the other two aren't due until January, and they're all pieced (using the same big center pattern, but with different blocks around the edges, and different fabrics). They just need to be quilted and the binding put on, so I'm ahead of the game now.

I know most of my FL couldn't care less, but I have to squee somewhere.

Russell Wilson is the Seattle Seahawks' new starting quarterback. Considering what he's been doing in the pre-season, he deserves it. I suspect it's going to be great fun to watch him this year.

And Tarvaris Jackson (the quarterback from last year, who really wasn't very good) is on his way to Buffalo.

Oh, and Terrell Owens has been cut, although I couldn't care less about that.

Yay, Wilson!

Does anyone know if it's possible to cross-post from a Wordpress.com blog to a Facebook page?

It would make my book marketing life so much easier if I could set that up to happen automatically...

The boys started developing a skin rash on their faces the day after they were neutered, which was Friday. It was not getting better by Monday, so I took them to the vet.

They've got ringworm. We have topical medication to put on them twice a day. If it isn't gone by the time they go get their booster shots in two weeks, we'll add an oral med.

And I am itching all over myself (psychosomatically only so far).

Please.



They're going to grow out of that basket pretty darned soon. It's only about 8"x12"x4" deep.

Not that I intended that to be a nap spot. It just happened to be sitting on the bottom shelf.

Well, the boys are off to get neutered today. I had to withhold food and water starting at eight last night. I prepared both carriers last night, but when I put them down in the laundry room this morning, they both climbed into the same one (neither one of them associates the carrier with trauma -- yet), and they're still small enough that two of them don't overcrowd it, so they rode off together.

They were silent in the car, which was very odd. Linnet in particular was extremely vocal in the car -- "Oouutt, oouutt" in a very deep voice over and over.

And they both took the thermometer in the butt like the little gentlemen they are [wry g].

Turns out some of the wrestling that's been going on has been a bit rougher than I thought -- the vet showed me some tiny healing scabs in one of Teddy's ears and said they were from bites. Otherwise they're in good health.

I get to pick them up sometime between 2 and 4:30.

The house is way too quiet.

I hate being a mean cat mom, although I know in the long run I'm being a very good one.

Although I would never name a cat Fluffy [wry g].

Anyway, another photo and musings on my blog:

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1) We had a heat wave this weekend. It hit 90F (a bit over 32C) degrees yesterday for the first time in almost two years (Aug. 16, 2010, to be precise), according to the weather people, who went on and on (and on) about it on the news.

It hit 93F (almost 34C) today, too, and broke the record for the date, which was 89. The low's been 60F (16+C), though, so as long as the fan works to bring the cool air in after sunset, the sleeping's fine. It's supposed to drop back to 80 tomorrow and then back to the 70s where it belongs the rest of the week.

I can hear all of the rest of the country laughing at the concept of this being a heatwave as I type. Go right ahead.

Yeah, I'm spoiled. I just don't do extremes anymore.

It doesn't seem to bother the kittens, though. They tore around as if it was 70 degrees.

2) I have three, count 'em, three baby quilts to make this fall.

First, a young lady (the granddaughter of one of my two best friends), whom I've known since she was a pregnancy bump herself, is due in October.

Second, my next door neighbors, who are the best neighbors I've ever had, are having their second child, due in January.

Third, my mother informed me this morning in her latest letter that one of my nephews and his wife are expecting their third "after the first of the year."

I've made a lot of baby quilts in my time -- to the point where I've completely lost track of how many, but probably at least three dozen -- but never this many at once.

I started piecing the first one yesterday.