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December 5, 2004:

THE OOMPH FACTOR

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Well, dear readers, today is the day when I shall be on my way to New York, New York. I’m writing these here notes early because my car arrives at five o’clock in the morning. I shall then be whisked off to the Beach of Long, from whence I will fly to New York, New York at eight o’clock in the morning. I’m looking forward to this little trip and can’t wait for the signing and for our hainsies/kimlets get-together. I will, of course, have a full report for you as the trip progresses. Speaking of a full report, we had a lovely signing yesterday at Bookfellow’s. The reading went very well, they sold quite a few books, and we had a very nice turnout. Everyone loved the cake, too. I then came home, packed everything quickly and then relaxed, although I am a nervous flyer (actually not a nervous flyer, but nervous until I’m actually on the plane and in the air – then all is well) and I’m always worried I’m forgetting something or other. I’ll be interested to see if I can get high speed Internet in the hotel – it’s never worked before, but when I stayed at the Renaissance in Hollywood it worked fine, so I think whatever problems there were have been fixed. If not, I’ll use the phone line, but after high speed it’s hard to go back to dial-up. I will, of course, be eating my Sunday dinner at Joe Allen and my mouth is watering just thinking about it. Isn’t that exciting? Isn’t that just too too?

The other interesting experiment I’m going to try is posting these here notes early and seeing if I can have the date say the 5th. There is a way to do it, and I’ve done it once before – but I’m not sure I remember how. We shall see.

Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I’m going to try to actually get to bed at a reasonable hour so that I get more than four hours of sleep. At my age, we do need our beauty rest.

Don’t forget, Donald will have a brand spanking new radio show up for your listening pleasure at some point today.

These notes seem to have no oomph today. I see a decided lack of oomph. We must oomph them up, don’t you think? We need some zotz and some zazz and also some zazz and some zotz. We need to get our style on, dawg.

Well, that last paragraph really came to life, didn’t it? I feel we are now lively and sparkling, like a chilled glass of Diet Coke. I feel we have achieved the oomph factor.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, fly to New York, New York and check into my hotel and immediately get on the Internet and post. Until then, you must keep the home fries burning so that I have lots to read upon my arrival. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s free-for-all day, the day in which you dear readers get to choose the topics and we all get to post about them. So, let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, filled with zotz and zazz and filled with The Oomph Factor.

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