Budgets are no fun. But I’ve decided they are necessary, unless one of you readers wants to give me $10,000 a year. In return, I shall dedicate every book I publish to you. It’ll be kind of like the patron system from way back when, and we all know how well that worked. In other news, someone recommended this video to me, and I in turn am recommending it to you. It answers the age old question, “Where do the short pencils in libraries come from?”
Today I discovered the joys of mortgages. Sigh. Why do I have the feeling this is the start of a very long relationship that I will never really appreciate? After sludging through all the legalese and the details, I signed the papers and sent them back to Maine. I also spent time looking into insurance details, which was a pleasant surprise: it’s going to cost less than I feared. What haven’t I done yet? My writing. But that’s what I’m going to do now. Once I’m done with that, I might actually (gasp!) have time to relax some. Of course,
