…there’ll be something in February, we’re pretty sure. Jane’s getting a book ready; Lynn is; I’m writing a short story, which should be done soon. We’ll tell you when.
We had a nice letter from Bookplace Cafe, and they sent us a nice congratulations on CC, which I’ve posted over there, along with a link, for more e-books. Sheesh, I used to play guitar, draw, catalog my photos, read, weave, and do my genealogy project, and nowadays I just work on manuscripts and skate when we take a break. I felt incredibly guilty taking the time for Nationals and kept telling myself I should be working on this and that.
But this is a phase. Once we get up and going, there will again be free time. Jane wants to dig up all the grass in half the front lawn this summer and install rocks. I say there will be free time. I can see that creative rock arrangement may play a part in it. I still have to get my rings repaired from the pond dig: one flattened considerably, from my grip on the Mantis tiller handle (when it hits hard stuff it jumps like a startled skunk!) and the other lost a small set and now snags everything: it’s a tiny garnet, so won’t be ruinous to fix. The other one, the pearl ring, just has to be heated and reshaped. I think next summer I am not wearing my rings while gardening.
Welcome to being truly self-employed. Don’t worry, you will get over it. 🙂
I’m going to the Tucson Gem and Mineral show next week. Give me some info and I’ll see if I can find a replacement stone (I can get them wholesale). Just tell me the type of cut (round, square cushion, bagette, rounded cabachon, etc.), the size in millimeters, and how deep and or bright the color. If the stone is one of a pair or set it might be easier to find a matched set and just swap out all the stones. OSG should have my home email, and you probably have it as well from my purchases…
I wish I could tell you (and I envy you going to that show: I love rock shows). It’s so small I haven’t got any way to measure it, about the size of a paper-book matchhead. So it won’t break the bank to replace it. But thank you so much for the thought. The stones in that ring are all sizes, all cuts, and each stone, ranging from matchhead faceted to half-inch cabuchon, held to the light, is a different variation of the colors garnet shows, from orange to deep red purple. So I’m just going to have to tell the jeweler to pick one that isn’t otherwise in the ring.
Jealous, jealous, jealous, I wanna be in Tucson!
I learned the hard way that you should not wear rings when bowling. It didn’t bother me while I was actually bowling, but apparently stressed the bone when I released the ball. I think the edge got caught, which levered the other side of the ring into the finger a little. It took me 6 months or so until the finger stopped hurting if I wore the ring all day at work. A very weird feeling. So yes, I strongly suggest not wearing rings when doing gardening or other such work.
And I have just finished hanging up new bird feeders, and am experimenting with a Birdcam. I almost had some very awesome pictures of a hawk taking a dove, but found out that the camera got set to manual instead of automatic. And I think I just saw some bluebirds in one of my trees, which means I may think about putting out some mealworms. I’m running out of places to put feeders, so I may have to think about that one.
I have caught a ring while bowling (college class), and it is painful!
I envy you your bluebirds: I have only ever seen one, and of all places, it was in our rented storage yard, which is near meadows and woods.
Amazon just released their Kindle for PC Beta version…. Just dowmnloaded it. I don’t know if there is a way to read Closed Circle books on it.. I’m still looking.
You should be able to read any mobi or .prc file. Is this a computer app or a Kindle reader app?
PC app: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=kcp_pc_mkt_lnd?docId=1000426311
“We had a nice letter from Bookplace Cafe, and they sent us a nice congratulations on CC, which I’ve posted over there, along with a link…”
I’m not finding this.
Pooh! I can’t imagine you or Jane have any reason to feel guilty about going to Nationals. Life is for living and once in a lifetime moments are to be grabbed — especially when they happen a the second time! You have all been running around dealing with lots of frustrating and aggravating moments and everyone deserves to play.
and no fair Ready4more — I love the Tucson gem show and I live in AZ. Years ago we got the emeralds that make up my wedding ring for a song! And they have nifty things besides sparkley things — like dinosaur eggs from the Gobi and a whole range of fossils and really cool stuff. One year they had a whole cave bear skeleton and Irish Elk antlers — which got me lusting for a really big 2 story fieldstone fireplace to put a set on. Have fun!
I noticed that “Destroyer” is now available in an e-book format. It’s on ebooks.com and Amazon. This is the first I’ve seen of any of the Foreigner books in an e-format.
Drool,dinosaur eggs,drool……! Rocks ROCK!! I
LOVE rocks.
I have a problem and am not getting any usable
advice from the (?)pros(?). Would you guys mind
helping out? A site that I use has suddenly put
it’s pedigree files in CFM. I understand that I
could find software to ‘read’ the files,but the
places I’ve looked have been so confusing that I
gave up. Is there an answer out there?
A quick look at google suggests maybe it’s a little like html. Try opening it in your browser using the ‘open with’ function of your windows menu, and see if that helps. Anybody got a better answer?
It’s apparently Cold Fusion markup files, which the server-side software is apparently supposed to handle. (Google CFM and file, and it finds a page about what happens.) I’m not familiar with Cold Fusion, so I can’t go farther than that.
(Why the files have been put in CFM is a question for the people running the site.)
Ready4more, I haven’t tried this, but the word on Kindleboards is to save the mobi file on your computer. Set the default program for that file format as the Kindle App, then click on the file in file manager to open it.
For better directions, check response #10 on this thread:
http://www.kindleboards.com/index.php?topic=18008.0
Rings can be dangerous! After almost burnishing out a carved design on one ring and a couple of near disasters, I only wear rings when I am going out. I also insist that my students remove rings, any necklaces that can dangle over work and tie their hair back….it’s amazing how stuff can become entangled in work.
Are there *really real* dinosaur eggs in the world? That is soooooo cool! 🙂 😀 😆
Dino eggs are unusual among fossils, but far from unknown. I’ve been in the labs in the Tyrell museum near Drumheller, in Canada, where they were using an acid bath to slowly dissolve most of an egg to get to the embryonic dino inside, for display. Most dino eggs I know of come from the Gobi or from the north, I think Wyoming. I spent a very interesting convention with Dr. Philip Currie, the blond chap who often appears on dino documentaries, and got a personal tour behind the scenes at the Tyrell, including the warehouses, prep areas, and all; absolutely great, and he’s a really fun guy.
I haven’t worn a ring since my divorce. It helps to have no encumbrances when working with power tools such as a table saw (very unforgiving machine) or even with the bees. Your finger gets caught on the edge of the box and you’re stuck there while the bees attack the invading finger, causing it to swell up and make the ring impossible to remove.
The new Kindle app resides on your computer allowing you to read any files you have previously purchased for your Kindle on your computer. Since I very rarely read on my computer this won’t be of much assistance but, for people who sit for hours infront of a computer this might be of some help.
It will also read mobi and prc just fine. I set it as the default application for both types of file. It’s not that new. I must have had it installed for at least 3-4 months.
Horner discovered the ‘egg mountain’ on a ranch
near the town of Choteau here in Montana. His
dig there showed that the duckbill Maiasaurus did
care for their hatchlings.
Horner. Definitely. Brilliant fellow. Couldn’t remember if it was Wyoming or Montana. The whole NW region is interesting, having lain on the dino trackways toward the south…migratory route, they think.
Ever read the book Raptor Red? That’s Bakker doing sf. And very well done, too! I enjoyed the daylights out of that book!
No,I didn’t know he wrote fiction. He’s the ‘bad
boy’ in the paleontology community,but I love
hearing him talk. My friend in Alaska went on a
great many dino digs up on the ‘North Slope’ along the Porcupine River. the gravel bars were
loaded with Dinosaur debris that can’t be used
scientifically because it’s not ‘in reference’ so
she would send me great dino stuff! But Horner
gave me a hankering for an egg.