Dateline: in front of a roaring fire on a snowy night in Portsmouth RI, 23 March 2005
Spent the whole day (free time, that is) working Chapter 2's 42 callouts from Mark on my Mac in the basement (damn comfy wrap-around couch). Two were big inserts, maybe another dozen with sizeable ones, and the rest were medium-to-small-sized fixes. I started at 0800 and went right through to 4pm, breaking only for times outside with the dog, who's getting better with the invisible fence each day. At 4pm I broke from the effort, having nailed all 42 items.
At that point we packed everyone (all four kids, Vonne and I, and Vonne's mom) into my Pilot and drove to Swansea MA to a Japanese restaurant we really love (we know the owners from a school our kids previously attended off-island). That's always fun being around the grill and getting the full show, plus the food's so good.
The snow was falling pretty heavily on the way home, so we're worried about Nona's departure at 0600 tomorrow morning. We're up at 0300 to start the process, and since I'm driving, I may be spending much of the day at TF Green editing on my Mac.
For now, the fire's dying and I'm contemplating the workout, wondering if the extra hour of sleep would make much difference. I'm guessing it could, especially driving in a snowstorm in the dark, so I'll play it safer tonight and hit the hay without it.
Overall, the book editing is going well. I have probably 4 more hours to do my run-through on Chapter 2 tomorrow, and then I dig into Chapter 3. My guess, though, is that we'll not truly be done editing the main text until about a week after the deadline, so like last time, we'll be working some back-end when we turn in the virtually completed text on April Fool's.
I remain worried about how much Esquire assignment number 1 will impinge on our extended editing efforts in April. Last time Neil Nyren at Putnam gave us another 3 weeks to nail the editing, and we'll need something similar this time, lest the review copy contain too many mistakes. Then again, it's the review copy, so there's only so much to be done with that.
Tsk, tsk. Best to stay focused on the topic at hand.
Oh yes, getting to bed.
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