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On Wednesday we started the editing of A Long Weekend in Paris. It’s going to be a slow edit, because

lanalucy is taking a vacation a week from Wednesday which will last for six weeks. Unless she decides to ironwoman through it there’ll be stuff still to edit, so there will be a huge ration of unfinished energy lurking around here. The cover will be easy for someone who can do the most basic graphics stuff – “A Long Weekend in Paris”, with “By Nicole Massey”, and below that a shot of Paris at night with the Eiffel Tower a bit back in the distance, all lit up.

I’m at 181 pages into Indispensable, from the fifteen I had when I dove into it. I don’t know how much is left, but it’ll be either a denouement from here or one big conflict to settle things down.

Love Spell is going to be my next editing push, because I haven’t done a full read-thru on it since I finished it. By the time

lanalucy gets back off vacation it’ll be done and ready for the editing pass. I’ve got a red jasper heart I started the lapidary work on way back when I was a kid, and a jeweler I knew finished it for me. I’ll want it hanging from a necklace, glowing a bright red that’s got more blue than red in it – that, along with the title and my name, will be the cover.

I had a great conversation with

snakebitcat on Saturday. It was in a long ago conversation with him that we implemented the Footnote Protocol – if one of us is talking the other person can interject the word “footnote” and the conversation will continue on. It’s up to the person who calls a footnote to remember what it’s about so when the current topic is done we can clear all the footnotes out. We’ve found it very useful, and we’ve been doing this for a lot of years. He’s partway through The Last Dangerous Visions, so we talked about that – I listened to the whole thing, and there are some unsettling things in there, stuff that creeps into your head and creates paths of thought as you explore the ramifications; so, the same way the prior two in the series did. I’m finishing up season 3 of Leverage: Redemption, and I’ll be bummed when it’s done, because I really like those characters. Mission: Impossible always got my mind interested, but the stories in the Leverage shows also engage my emotions too. Up next: Season 2 of Wednesday. I think Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will be done with it’s season and as such made available to me descriptively by the end of the month.

How’s my headspace? Not bad – I’m rearranging the furniture a bit so some things that were hidden from me are where I can see them, and some deep conversations have made me aware of some things about myself I didn’t know before – that said, I’m not rubber-stamping any one else’s opinions, so a lot of investigation and exploration are going down. This is also bringing to the fore some things about those around me, and that means me having to decide what to do with the information.

I listened to a massive audio book about the creation and history of NPR, up to 2024. Interesting read. My explorations into Jazz in Words and Music took me interesting places, and today I reached one of the places I remember – episode 333 has a segment on the music of Edmar Castaneda, the jazz harpist; I have the album the article was about on my restored drive, maybe, though I’m not getting my hopes up until I verify it’s still there and it’ll play. This tells me that the other big two I’m looking forward to, the one on Gregoire Merrit’s jazz harmonica albums and the one on an amazing band, Snarky Puppy. There are also a lot of others I remember and want to hear again. The bummer of this is that JIWAM stopped back in early 2014, so everything on it is history, not current events. It was so fun to hear something on the show and then go searching for it.

That’s enough for now, unless someone has specific questions they want to ask me about any of this or recent events.