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Current music:	"Always Wanting You" Merle Haggard
Entry tags:	reading list, writing progress

A Little of This! A Little of That!

Had a busy and tiring week at work.  Monday, the gal who shares janitorial duties with me was ill and didn't make it in.  While I couldn't do much about cleaning the ladies' locker rooms, I still ended up doing a bit more of the common tasks and areas.  Thus I ended up being there a half-hour or so longer than normal.  I was late enough in leaving that I went straight to the down-town facility for our annual employee benefits meeting.  (I normally come home and clean up a little before going.)  As it ended up, I put in over 12 hours from the time I left home and finally got back that afternoon.

Tuesday and Wednesday were pretty much normal days, but on Thursday we cleaned the outside tennis courts for the first time.  Probably wouldn't have been so long in doing it, but it took nearly an hour to get started.  Hoses leaked, connections were mangled, and we had to swap stuff around until we got a set of equipment that worked.  Plus that, the weather didn't really cooperate.  It was probably the coldest day of the week, windy too, and there I was, pushing a "water broom" along the courts while dragging over 200 ft. of hose behind me.  Definitely discovered muscles that I hadn't used in a long long time!  And as it was on Monday, I ended up being there well beyond the normal end of my work day.

Friday was pretty much a normal day, other than the fact that I was a little stiff and sore from the previous.  Really felt good to be able to say (and fervently believe), "Thank God It's Friday!"

I've been fairly busy of late with stuff for the Corvair Club.  I managed to get the April REAR ENGINE REVIEW out about a week ago.  It has all the stuff in in concerning the ECONO-RUN we will be hosting in June, in concert with the "Car D'Lane" car show and cruise in Coeur D'Alene, ID.  Now I have to come up with a spread sheet to track registrations for the event as they come in.  Worked some on that yesterday, and hopefully will do more on it today.

Honestly, I've not had much of a chance to get much done on the writing side of things.  I'm probably a week or so behind in sending out queries, and I've not even looked at the WIP for several weeks.  And it seems that I've always got some other little project, writing or otherwise that takes away from the actual effort.

Plus that, Jessica will be graduating in a little over a month, so there is all the stuff connected with getting her out of high school and into college.  (If I haven't mentioned it, she's been named one of her class's valdictorians!)  In other words, the present time is a quite hectic one for all of us.

While I'm thinking of it, I'd like to mention that Anne Mini is running a little writing contest on her AUTHOR! AUTHOR! blog.  (www.annemini.com)  Information can be found on her post dated April 20th.  And yes, I'm going to try and get something written for it.

I may have mentioned this as well over the previous weeks.  Barbara Cagle, who was president of Spokane Authors and Self-Publishers (SASP) (www.spokaneauthors.org) before me, has published her book about her mom.  It's called 16 X Mom: A Mastery of Motherhood.  As it is a story about a Mom, she's promoting it as a Mother's Day gift.  In fact, I think she's running a contest on her blog to give away a copy of it.  She has a website at: www.barbaracagle.com  There's a link there to her blog if anyone is interested.

Well that should be it for today.  I need to get some other computer type stuff done, and hopefully this afternoon I'll get outside and get some stuff done there as well.  I need to figure out why the "service engine soon" light keeps coming on in the Suzuki.  I don't normally worry about it, but I need to take it in for a smog check this coming week.

As a last thought, I think the last time I mentioned my reading, I was reading THE THREE STIGMATA OF PALMER ELDRITCH by Philip K. Dick.  Well I completed that one about half-way through my break time, and started right in on his DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?  I have a volume of four of his novels.  I hadn't planned to read two in a row, but since I finished the one and didn't have anything else to start, I figured, "why not?"  Still have UBIS to read from that volume, but I'll save that until later.  Now I'm reading CUT-OUT by Bob Mayer, which I bought (and had autographed) at last summer's PNWA Writer's Conference.  Speaking of which, I need to be getting registered for in the near future.  The one this summer, not last summer's.
Dave