Perpetual Ray stats

So, I'm home now, checking the Perpetual Ray stats. Several downloads, I'm much pleased, thanks everybody who downloaded Perpetual Ray. I read the 2 'Ray' eBooks (by A. S. Warwick) before I did the final edit of Perpetual Ray and I got a sense of the Brian/Ray dialog, which was a lot more complex than I remembered. For one thing, Ray never uses contractions, so I had to go thru all of my Ray dialog and change every "you're" to "you are" and so forth. And, Brian and Ray really aren't buddies, Ray calls Brian "sir" a lot, albeit sometimes in a snarky sarcastic way.

Perpetual Ray

I published a new short story on smashwords.com. It's a sequel to my other stories. The story uses 2 characters from another author. The other author was going to write some of the dialog for his characters, but then he proceeded to work on his own stories for 2 weeks, then finally he said it was ok with him if I wrote everything myself, as long as I said his characters were used by his permission. I then did another edit that added 700 words, mostly enhanced dialog for his characters, bumping the total word count for the story to over 4000. The 2 week delay actually worked out good, as it gave me a fresh look at everything and I'm happy with the results of the final edit.

Layoffs at work

Today started with a quick meeting scheduled for 11:45. Before the meeting, a guy came by and said, "I'm out" and he nodded towards the VP offices. We shook hands. I said I was sorry. At the meeting, our VP said there were others, and he listed the names. I wondered why my job was spared.

The printer saga

The old HP printer made whirring noises for long periods of time and didn’t work on Windows 7. The Epson Workforce 615 was a noisy piece of junk that initially printed fine, but started printing faint 10 days after install. When we tried to return the Epson, a lightning storm knocked out the power in Sam’s Club, so we had to go back the next day. The first Kodak 7250 could only print yellow and black. Red printed as yellow. The cyan & magenta print heads were bad. The second Kodak 7250 worked ok. We have a printer on Windows 7, yeah!

mall walking

It’s Saturday. Went mall walking. Listened to iPod at the mall. There was a Civil War chess set. The ‘queen’ was an army dude with a beard. I think the queen of a civil war chess set should be a woman in a frilly party gown. It was $130, too much.

River City story

2400 words now on the River City story. Lots of good stuff already. As usual, the story is sort of writing itself, I’m just the stenographer.

Camcorder

Been looking at video cameras. I like the Panasonic SDR-H85, with 78x zoom. Wrote some more on the River City eBook. Not sure when this will publish. The bad guy for this one will be an odd character. Todd and odd, a winner, for sure. Look for this maybe in August. Still don't know when the next Yellowtown adventure will publish, that's sort of in limbo.

My Writing

Wrote another page on the River City adventure. Todd makes a brief appearance on page 2.

Chess

I left a chess game running when I went to take a bath. My wife played solitaire. She stopped my chess game, due to an error msg about a lack of video memory. The chess game got an easy win.

Warehouse 13

We’re big Warehouse 13 fans, here. Finally watched all of the episodes we had on TiVo. Awesome. Paranormal, with a dash of humor, right up our alley. We applaud SyFy channel for this hit.

I put up a blog this weekend

When I get to my day job tomorrow, if somebody asks what I did this weekend, I can say I put up a blog. After weeks of contemplating a blog, I finally have a blog. It was surprizingly easy. My 'Missing Manual' book named "Creating a Web Site' told me exactly how to setup the blog and tweak the settings.

Short Story Pipeline

There are now 2 unfinished short stories in my pipeline. The storyline to a new Yellowtown tale has already been written, but the story is currently in a 'dialog enhancement' edit. The next story will move the action to River City. There is only a beginning on the River City story, no firm plot yet. For you Todd fans, your favorite casino manager will definitely return in the River City story.

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