Let it be Thursday Blog Day, right here in Blogville, in the state of Blogsylvania. I guess that should actually be the state of Blogesota, but Blogsylvania just sounds better. Today’s installment will be one of those classic rambling messes, since I don’t have any one big single piece of information to share, but the glue that will eventually hold it together will be a few more pertinent questions from readers. So let’s begin…
It’s been a bit of a whirlwind week since I blogged here last. Airplanes, hotels, rental cars, and fabulous meals inhabited my life once again, as did good friends and beautiful places. It felt good to get out of the house and do all of that! This time, we gave Barbara a break and allowed her to stay off Delta 1484, and I flew on that MD-90 instead, joining her in Spokane for the weekend, in a beautiful room at the Davenport Tower Hotel in downtown.
If it seems, to you, that I’ve been touting these “major milestones” for many months, with regard to “Bats, Balls, & Burnouts” that’s because I have. And every time I think I’ve reached the final one I discover a new one coming at me from over the horizon. Who knew this was so much work? There was the Kickstarter campaign that was so successful. There was October 20, when I finished the first draft of principal writing. There was November and December, when Greg Halling and I went through the whole thing, multiple times, editing out stuff that could go and tightening it up. And then there was the last three weeks, as I saved $5,000 by doing the copy-editing page by page, paragraph by paragraph, sentence by sentence, word by word, and comma by comma.
Since I didn’t get any urgent emails from anyone earlier this week, I’m assuming most of you didn’t notice that our blog site got hacked recently. I happened upon it just hours after the deed was done, and deleted it immediately. The hacker deleted my most recent blog, and replaced it with stuff I care not to mention. They also changed the title to “Hacked By” followed by a name I will not print here.