Well, dear readers, has anyone noticed that it’s Friday? Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, it is Friday, the end of the workweek and yet there is work to be done. Go know. And since I am behind in said work, work I will be doing this weekend. Sort of. Kind of. Kind of. Sort of. Meanwhile, it’s Friday and I must write some notes even though I’m not feeling particularly noteworthy at the moment. Well, let’s start at the very beginning, which is, after all, a very good place to start. What am I, Maria all of a sudden?
Yesterday was a fascinating day, at least what I can remember of it is fascinating. I got up at eight. That was too early and yet fascinating in its own right or even its own left. Before I’d gone to sleep I did the new operating system update for the iPhone and iPad. So, this morning I checked it out whilst I stayed in bed like so much fish. It took a bit of getting used to – the new design is quite different in certain ways, but after a few minutes I decided I quite liked everything about it. Eventually I got my tired butt cheeks out of bed and answered some e-mails. Then I had quite a long telephonic conversation with Muse Margaret, who was delighted that I’ve made the decision to write the new novel using the story idea she so loves and has loved for fifteen years now. I told her the title, which she thought was great, and I told her I wasn’t going to use hardly anything from the story treatment David Wechter and I had done. And we just started chatting about the characters and stuff and as we talked I got so many good ideas and she pitched in with some of her own and I scribbled notes down and I’m now very stoked to do this book. I’ll be taking extensive notes as I am wont to do and I’ll begin typing them up, just to refer to every now and then. I have the bare bones that I need to begin it and I don’t want any bones beyond that – I just want my mind to go where it goes, which is how I’ve written every book including the mysteries.
After that, I went and had a ham and Swiss on rye, then picked up a couple of packages, did some errands and whatnot, then came home. I then prepped our new release eBlast, so that’s ready to go, and I got the audio samples to the web guy so THAT’S ready to go. Then I had a lovely call from Miss Christiane Noll with the good news that she’ll be joining Brent Barrett and Jason Graae in the And the World Goes Round recording, very good news indeed – in fact, I cannot imagine a better casting choice. So, one role left to cast and we’ll be complete. Then I had a frustrating conversation with a supervisor at Paypal about my new debit card that still hasn’t arrived. Apparently their processing center had some major issue that caused a whole batch of cards to have problems – the issue has been addressed but it could take another two weeks to get the card. However, she did say it “looked” like it had been sent and that there was a 50/50 chance of it getting here sooner. Please send excellent vibes and xylophones for it to do so or I’m in for a world of merde in a few days when my online autopays get screwed up.
Then the Darling Daughter arrived after her dental appointment. It was the final appointment and three weeks from now she’ll be over this ordeal. She’s been such a trouper and she was in very good humor. We moseyed on over to The Smoke House for a meal. I’d eaten my sandwich but jogged most of it off, but still I ate very lightly, save for three pieces of the garlic cheese bread – but those are not that large. Otherwise, I only had a cup of clam chowder and a shrimp cocktail, and strawberries for dessert. The Darling Daughter had the pulled pork sandwich, which she loved as much as I did last week, and then she had some crème brulee for dessert. We had a really fun time and she showed me some interesting apps on her iPad, all free, and two of them that I put on my phone immediately.
Then she went on her merry way, and I watched the forty-minute making of featurette on Fahrenheit 451, made back in 2002 when the DVD came out. It was the usual dreary making of peculiar to the Frenchman who made it, but it did have the producer and editor and they were fun. Not fun was Truffaut expert Annette Insdorf who, along with Dr. Drew Casper, is a most irritating presence.
Today, I shall be up by nine, then I have a noon meeting at The Magic Castle with a performer who’ll most likely be co-hosting the benefit I’m directing. It’s a lunch meeting, but I don’t plan on really doing anything there but perhaps nibbling on something non-fattening. Then I’ll hopefully pick up some packages, I’ll do a jog, then start the commentary that I should have started yesterday. But at four, Mr. Barry Pearl and his ever-lovin’ Cindy are picking me up and we’re going to sup and then see a production of Funny Girl that’s garnered very good reviews from all the people who give everything very good reviews. I’m looking forward to it, though, since I’ve only seen Funny Girl once on the stage – its national tour starring Marilyn Michaels.
Tomorrow, I’ll lunch with the Staitman clan, finish the commentary and relax. Sunday I’ll be seeing some singer at The Federal. Next week is filled to the brim with meetings and meals and if you keep sending excellent vibes and xylophones, it could end up being even busier.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, have a noon meeting, hopefully pick up packages, do a jog, write some commentary, sup and then see Funny Girl. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Friday – what is currently in your CD player and your DVD/Blu and Ray player? I’ll start – CD, too many. Blu and Ray, next up is A Letter to Three Wives. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland after posting these now noteworthy notes.