updates weren't destructive so don't have to rebuild the book
I got the updates and they do not require the book to be rebuilt, thus saving about three months worth of work.
Whewwwwww!!!!!
Am beginning to get orders for the book, so will have to get at it and find out whether practical to do a hard cover version or whether it will be all cerlox. Will send a brochure and copy of the book to about twenty Whidden businesses in hopes they will subscribe to a full page directory entry and thus pay for about 200 copies of the book, now likely two volumes as 1,550 pages.
I cannot do that many pages in cerlox.
Am going to the Alberta Centennial Tattoo at Rexall Place on Friday. I saw the Canadian Centennial Tattoo at Exhibition Stadium in Toronto, the highlight being an battle simulation with opposing sides and fireworks simulating the sounds and sights of battle.
I also saw the 1994 Halifax International Tattoo and bought the video cassette. One of the events there was two teams with cannons at one end of the stadium, start the race, disassemble the cannon, race with the parts to the other end over an obstacle coarse, assemble the cannon and the first team to fire their cannon was the winner.
I hope they don't disappoint as have convinced a friend to go as well. He was very impressed with the Edinburgh, Scotland web site for their tattoo but his response to the Klondike Days info about the Alberta tattoo is: "boring....." It better NOT be boring.
Hollywood is worried about the fact that people are not going to the movies this year amid surveys that say people prefer to see their movies at home. Duh!!!! Last year I saw more movies than I ever did in a theatre and found them mostly boring. I bought a couple of DVDs. This year, I've skipped the Brad Pitt show "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" because I was bored by "Troy". Saw "War of the Worlds" but won't be buying that DVD either. Do have the "Phantom of the Opera" DVD and will watch it several times and still the play the original cast recording CD. Don't have much on the horizon that I want to see.
I now have a collection of DVDs that allow me to watch a different movie every week and not see the same one for two years. Will buy season eight of Stargate though wasn't too impressed with the premiere of Stargate: Atlantis.
Is anyone else turning off the TV because the latest trend in commercials seems to be how annoying can we be in thirty seconds. First is the MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) commercial with the crying baby who has apparently lost one or both parents due to a drunk driving accident. If such baby were in my room, I'd pick it up to soothe it but MUTE is the only way to soothe that abomination. Skip MADD.
Then Klondike Days decided to to the same trick with a young man who gets on an elevator and terrorizes the rest of the riders by punching his hands in the air while he shrieks in excitement about something the other passengers have no clue to. The text eventually clues us into the fact there are only 10 of them: Klondike Days, that is. MUTE. Skip Klondike Days.
MacDonalds has a creepy dog with his fangs showing suggesting it is hard to get a bargain these days and you should consider their special every day for $1.79. MUTE. Skip the deal.
It's beginning to seem the best thing to do is just skip television. There were times when I actually enjoyed some of the commercials. With this new trend, I'm afraid I won't even bother to see if the next generation of commecial pass the watchability test. I'll have already decided to skip TV.
Sorry for the rant. Feels better having done it.
There are no commercials in the books I'm reading: Jack Whyte's "Dream of Eagles" series of "Skystone", "Singing Sword", "Saxon Shore", "The Sorcerer: The Fort at River's Bend" and "The Sorcerer: Metamophosis." They are Whytes sweeping tale of the legend of King Arthur. It is followed by "Uther" a parallel book about the father of King Arthur. Whyte signed with Penguin to write a two novel followup of King Arthur's life after drawing the sword from the stone resulting in "Clothar the Frank" giving the background on Sir Lancelot, a Frankish knight who travelled to meet Arthur and the final story, scheduled to be released in October, 2005, by which time I should have finished the series.
This is the fourth time I have read the earlier books but will be only the second time reading "Clothar the Frank". Highly recommended. I've come to call the series "lessons in life by Jack Whyte". One of the few books I find my self laughing at while reading, which puzzles fellow riders on the bus.
Cheers, Ray
Whewwwwww!!!!!
Am beginning to get orders for the book, so will have to get at it and find out whether practical to do a hard cover version or whether it will be all cerlox. Will send a brochure and copy of the book to about twenty Whidden businesses in hopes they will subscribe to a full page directory entry and thus pay for about 200 copies of the book, now likely two volumes as 1,550 pages.
I cannot do that many pages in cerlox.
Am going to the Alberta Centennial Tattoo at Rexall Place on Friday. I saw the Canadian Centennial Tattoo at Exhibition Stadium in Toronto, the highlight being an battle simulation with opposing sides and fireworks simulating the sounds and sights of battle.
I also saw the 1994 Halifax International Tattoo and bought the video cassette. One of the events there was two teams with cannons at one end of the stadium, start the race, disassemble the cannon, race with the parts to the other end over an obstacle coarse, assemble the cannon and the first team to fire their cannon was the winner.
I hope they don't disappoint as have convinced a friend to go as well. He was very impressed with the Edinburgh, Scotland web site for their tattoo but his response to the Klondike Days info about the Alberta tattoo is: "boring....." It better NOT be boring.
Hollywood is worried about the fact that people are not going to the movies this year amid surveys that say people prefer to see their movies at home. Duh!!!! Last year I saw more movies than I ever did in a theatre and found them mostly boring. I bought a couple of DVDs. This year, I've skipped the Brad Pitt show "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" because I was bored by "Troy". Saw "War of the Worlds" but won't be buying that DVD either. Do have the "Phantom of the Opera" DVD and will watch it several times and still the play the original cast recording CD. Don't have much on the horizon that I want to see.
I now have a collection of DVDs that allow me to watch a different movie every week and not see the same one for two years. Will buy season eight of Stargate though wasn't too impressed with the premiere of Stargate: Atlantis.
Is anyone else turning off the TV because the latest trend in commercials seems to be how annoying can we be in thirty seconds. First is the MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) commercial with the crying baby who has apparently lost one or both parents due to a drunk driving accident. If such baby were in my room, I'd pick it up to soothe it but MUTE is the only way to soothe that abomination. Skip MADD.
Then Klondike Days decided to to the same trick with a young man who gets on an elevator and terrorizes the rest of the riders by punching his hands in the air while he shrieks in excitement about something the other passengers have no clue to. The text eventually clues us into the fact there are only 10 of them: Klondike Days, that is. MUTE. Skip Klondike Days.
MacDonalds has a creepy dog with his fangs showing suggesting it is hard to get a bargain these days and you should consider their special every day for $1.79. MUTE. Skip the deal.
It's beginning to seem the best thing to do is just skip television. There were times when I actually enjoyed some of the commercials. With this new trend, I'm afraid I won't even bother to see if the next generation of commecial pass the watchability test. I'll have already decided to skip TV.
Sorry for the rant. Feels better having done it.
There are no commercials in the books I'm reading: Jack Whyte's "Dream of Eagles" series of "Skystone", "Singing Sword", "Saxon Shore", "The Sorcerer: The Fort at River's Bend" and "The Sorcerer: Metamophosis." They are Whytes sweeping tale of the legend of King Arthur. It is followed by "Uther" a parallel book about the father of King Arthur. Whyte signed with Penguin to write a two novel followup of King Arthur's life after drawing the sword from the stone resulting in "Clothar the Frank" giving the background on Sir Lancelot, a Frankish knight who travelled to meet Arthur and the final story, scheduled to be released in October, 2005, by which time I should have finished the series.
This is the fourth time I have read the earlier books but will be only the second time reading "Clothar the Frank". Highly recommended. I've come to call the series "lessons in life by Jack Whyte". One of the few books I find my self laughing at while reading, which puzzles fellow riders on the bus.
Cheers, Ray
posted by Unknown at
1:28 PM
|
0 comments
