Formatting

[ritaxis]

Yeppers, I'm formatting. In manuscript, doublespaced, I have 245 pages. Which I think is just about 200 in print, or a little less. I was a little worried. I'm running spell check in a few minutes, and then I'm not making any more changes until I hear from Z., or I get itchy, whichever comes first.

You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to get better about the job hunt, for one.

And then I'm going to start the Afterwar recovery. Yes I am, and I'm jazzed about it too. I sure am. If it only took me five and a half months to get a draft of The Conduit starting from scratch and having the thing mutate a bit as I went, it should not take much more than that to recreate a done deal which I actually know by heart, right? I expect it to take somewhat longer, for a couple-few reasons: it's a longer book; I have to get serious about getting a job; and I'll certainly take a break from it to do the revisions on The Conduit and hopefully I'll also have to take a break to attend to business on Esperanza Highway.

What I'm listening to: Sacred Harp

I do have to go buy Stuff for Thanksgiving, which I do not look forward to -- it's Wednesday night, for dog's sake, and the store I'm going to won't be open tomorrow, so it will be a madhouse.

One of the stores was selling turkeys buy one get one free -- what kind of a mad person buys two turkeys?

Crap. I just realized I should have bought them, and given them to the VFW Bill Monte post for their dinner. Next time.

Comments

[brooksmoses]

Well, there is also the option of keeping the second turkey in the freezer for a month or so; they're relatively easy to cook and make lots of leftovers.

I went to the store last night to get one just for that purpose (we're having Thanksgiving dinner at my brother's house, and thus don't need to buy one for that), figuring that at 12:30am they wouldn't be crowded. It was a correct assessment, but their on-sale turkeys were also all sold out.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

We have Thanksgiving at both brothers' houses -- the nice fellow's and mine. One's in Cupertino and the other in Oakland, so we drive a lot. This is the solution we came up with years ago, instead of the alternating thing.

But we have an open-house sort of Turkey spread on the weekend (if you would like to hit the beach on Saturday, you are more than welcome to drop by). This is also our family tradition -- we do it because the nice fellow likes leftover turkey, stuffing and gravy. I will not buy the turkey for that until Friday and just hope I can get a not-frozen one on that day.

As for freezing a turkey, there's no room, no room at all.

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

what kind of a mad person buys two turkeys?

1. A really organised person with a friend or relative? You go and buy 2 turkeys for the price of 1, have one each and split the cost, thus getting one turkey for half price.

2. A very generous person who knows of a suitable place to donate the second turkey.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

Number two appeals to me, but I didn't think of it in time. Oh well. If the sale's still on tomorrow, which I doubt, I will do something like that.

Right now I'm making squash and sage dumplings/kreplach/ravioli to go in squash soup. And a bunch of other veggie dishes (another family tradition -- Lucy makes veggie dishes). The kids are making desserts (another family tradition). Wow, we're just a traditional family all around, sure, that's right.