So out I go to try to finish writing a chapter of The Witch Box. Getting the rest of this book written will be a major artistic challenge for which I’ll need the Lord’s guidance and every bit of wit I can scrape up from my brain. We’re still struggling to upload the pictures of Patty’s car.
I light my cigar; and no sooner does my pen touch the legal pad than a neighbor comes over to chat. She wants to do me a favor, so I can’t say “Go away.” And Patty comes out to join the conversation. I can’t start writing till my cigar is more than halfway finished.
Back indoors, I find I can’t turn my laptop on. It just sits there. Try to find the power button. The various instructionals online all involve taking the computer apart and putting it back together. Boy howdy. All I can think of is that scene in Unfaithfully Yours when Rex Harrison tries to use his record machine and is confronted with incredibly complicated diagrams, plus this cheerful message: “So simple, it practically operates itself.” This is not my cup of tea.
After another 30 minutes of high stress, somehow we get the laptop operating again. I don’t know how. Just don’t look a gift horse in the mouth. Also gotta call the property owner next door and see about getting the tree removed from Patty’s car.
Why do I feel like a stretched-out balloon with all the air let out of it?
Sounds like a lot of my days. Computers!! This one has done ever nutty thing a computer can do for the last several days, and then I have my goofy fingers to content with. Oh, well, it will all work out ….
“So simple, it operates itself!” Yaaaaah!
Maybe part of operating itself is deciding when to shut itself down for a nap. 🙂
I mean, “They want me to take the bloody thing apart???” (I wake up screaming…)
If it’s any consolation, my day hasn’t been much better, although it’s mostly a sickly lawn mower.
Your cigar made me think of a wonderful movie I watched this week, “The Adventures of Mark Twain,” starring Frederic March. That Mark Twain sure loved his cigars!
He probably smoked more of them than was good for him, but don’t worry about me–I can’t afford to do that.
I finished reading The Wind from Heaven a few days ago, and wow, it was such a great book! Thank you so much for writing the Bell Mountain books, Mr. Duigon! I am really looking forward to reading the sequels to come!
“Behold!” is next.
Are you going to help me out with a customer review on amazon?
Yes, I will! I’m sorry I hadn’t made a review on Amazon even though I said I’ll do it. I’m looking forward to reading “Behold!”
I need all the help I can get.
I’ll try to make a review for all the books, but without giving away the stories.
Many thanks, Joshua!
You’re most welcome, Mr. Duigon! I just posted a review for The Wind From Heaven as “Music Lover”! I hope it went through! 😃👍
I’ll go and look.
It’s not on amazon yet.
It should be on there now, as I found it when I checked just now.
I must be looking in the wrong place. Can you send me a link?
Ah! I found it. It’s on amazon’s Japanese website. Thank you so much for that, Joshua.
How are the sales for your Japanese translation?
You’re welcome, Mr. Duigon! 😃 Recently I haven’t been selling the books. My grandma and aunt and other relatives and friends say they love the story!
Thanks, Joshua–glad they like it!
Man hope you get some rest! And progress!
I’m happy to report there’s been some progress (on the book, I mean).
Yay!